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Wash Clothes Like UBER?!

10th December 2016/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology /by billywright

Electrolux, the BIG washing machine company are testing a crazy new way of getting your clothes washed — by someone else.

CEO Jonas Samuelson has told the Financial Times that they are testing an Uber like service where you would pay to get your clothes washed at someone’s house. While you would need to change up your washing machine for it to have wi-fi and it to be connected to the app itself, it would help save money in the long term from washing equipment (Washer/Dryer) that for most of the week is idle.

While this sounds quite weird (people stealing your underwear!) there are other hurdles that need to be addressed too. For example, what if your clothes shrink or clothes colour runs? Who pays for that? There is also the potential for people to buy houses and turn them into laundromats? or If someone forgets to wash your clothes? Gives you somebody else’s clothes?

Jonas Samuelson doesn’t say when this will go live to the public if at all. But if this goes ahead it will be interesting to see what problems they face from it being used day in day out.

Listen to the guys chatting about this here!

EP 102 Zus Car Charger (Bonus)

10th November 2016/in Shows /by billywright

iKettle 2.0!

5th November 2016/in Gadgets, Gadgets / Tech /by billywright

We here at How To Kill An Hour didn’t think that the act of boiling a cup of tea needed revolutionising, or that the kettle could be any more technologically advanced than it already is.

But we were WRONG!

We have been introduced to the iKettle 2.0 by Smarter and it is simply amazing! Who knew the simple act of boiling a kettle could be so much fun! Basically it’s a Kettle which has a WiFi connection in it. But that WiFi connection opens up a whole heap of features such as:

Remote Boil: Instead of hanging around in the kitchen waiting for what seems like a 1000 years you can set your kettle to boil over wifi and have it ready for you when you get in! Or you can request for it to be boiled from another room in the house. How cool is that?!

Wake Up Mode: Set your iKettle to boil as soon as you wake up, thus saving you from being late to work for the 3rd time this week!

Temperature Setting: You are able to set the kettle to boil within a single degree. That way you can create the perfect green tea or black tea if that takes your fancy. Either way it will make for a better tasting tea as it hasn’t been over-boiled!

Water Sensor: Can see how much water is in the kettle all from the app, so you got no excuses for having people left out.

Warmer for Longer: The Kettle is able to keep your water for longer, long after it has been boiled!

Cooling: Cool the water to just the right temperature, perfect for those who like their brews at just the right temperature or for those with babies who require very specific temperatures for their food and milk!

A lot of the features that the iKettle 2.0 has is not on the kettle physically but rather in the complimentary smarter app. It’s very simple and a single setting can be changed with a simple touch of a button, for example setting the kettle to boil at any temperature! The center dial giving complete control with a simple two touch experience.

To buy your own iKettle 2.0 by Smarter please click here!

To download the Smarter app please click here: Apple / Android

To listen to the guys discussing the iKettle 2.0 please click here!

EP 72 How Reeps One Kills Time (Bonus)

30th September 2016/in Shows /by billywright

EP 71 How David Avery Kills Time (Bonus)

28th September 2016/in Shows /by billywright

AG Drive

27th September 2016/in Apps, Entertainment /by billywright

AG Drive is the #1 racing game in 100 countries, #1 game in 38 countries and in the top 10 games in 101 countries, so its not a surprise that we loved this game that we checked out recently! Not forgetting AG Drive got on to Apple App Store’s Best of 2015 list! So there is no reason as to why you shouldn’t check out this incredibly fun, futuristic game, anti-gravity racing game!

To download AG Drive please click here!

To listen to Marcus Meets discussing AG Drive please click here!

Stickman Ice Hockey!

21st September 2016/in Entertainment, Games /by billywright

First we brought you Stickman Battlefields now we bring you Stickman Ice Hockey! Enjoy Hockey fun with this fast paced and simple sports game, yet incredibly smooth and with awesome graphics to rival most mobile games this has tons of ‘just one more time’ addictiveness.

Pick your team and go ahead and play in a season or crush your opponent in a quick game. With full control of whether you want computer help from your team mates or controlling them yourself, missing that stop just became a lot lot easier.

To download for yourself please click here: Apple / Android

To hear the guys talking about it on the most recent podcast please click here!