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Amazon’s Haunted House?!

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Amazon’s podcast turned tv series ‘Lore’ is launching on Friday, October 13th, which can mean only one thing. Spooky, scary fun! Amazon are launching an immersive, one hour, eight person at a time, haunted house walk in LA to celebrate it’s release echoing the shows thesis ‘The scariest stories are often true”

Rooms in the haunted house will tell some of the creepiest stories about real events that the podcast have covered since the shows launch in 2015, while Amazon picked it up in April 2016.

The haunted house will  be running a week before on October 5th right through until November 12th.

Amazon Supermarkets!

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Amazon are testing a radical new concept for the supermarket.

Amazon’s crazy idea eliminates any requirement for any cashiers (say goodbye to those annoying self service checkouts!) simply tap in (similar to how you would tap in to the train station in London via an Oyster card) grab whatever food you need and then walk out. You are then billed to your Amazon account on your departure.

Available only in Seattle at the moment and you can only try it if you’re an Amazon employee or beta tester, public trials are scheduled to start sometime in 2017.

Amazon said in a press release:

“Our Just Walk Out technology automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart.”

View the video below to see what Amazon Go is all about!

Click here to hear the guys chatting about this radical new scheme!

Episode 123 Phone Shopping

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Amazon Fire Tv Stick

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We love our streaming here at How To Kill An Hour and HDMI Dongles are increasingly becoming more and more popular than a standard set top box, due to their ease of use and portability.

Producer Bill got to check out the Amazon Fire Tv Stick recently as he is interested in the brand new exclusive show ‘The Grand Tour” at £33 he couldn’t let this great offer slide and picked one up!

It was incredibly easy to set up and use and within minutes you are able to start enjoying your content on the big screen. You plug it into a Free HDMI slot, plug it into the wall if your tele doesn’t put out enough power for it to work, watch a short instruction video and you’re free to binge to your hearts desires.

Plus what makes it even better is that if you have a Prime Video subscription you’re already signed in (As it is an Amazon product) and ready to go with that so no need to labour around and remember passwords to things all your content is right there to watch! All in glorious HD too (4K if you decide to go the set top box route) there’s no 5.1 available unfortunately but you can plug it into a receiver to work around this. With 8gb of storage and 1GB of memory the stick is incredibly fast for such a small device and no LAG which is great for gaming too! (Crossy Road is available and for FREE too!)

 

Click here to buy Amazon Fire Tv Stick

Click here to listen to the guys talking about the Amazon Fire Tv Stick on the show!