SnappyScreen – The worlds first touchless sunscreen application system!
Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Monday, 7 August 2017
The SnappyScreen can apply sunscreen on to you in 10 seconds, full body too! It’s completely weatherproof and will be able to withstand extreme climates!
The sunscreen is:
Intelligent Night Light by Zing
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Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Zing is a smartphone controlled nightlight that includes blue light reduction to help you sleep better, it includes bluetooth (to also help you locate your items, as each gadget emits a bluetooth signal, you’ll be able to find it via the Zing app! Simply install a Zing in each room, configure the Zing Locator service and find your stuff!) and Wifi, acting as a visual indicator for incoming calls.
When used with other Zings they will learn and automatically illuminate a path for you without the need to configure them. Be that a trip to the bathroom or a trip to the fridge at midnight or when you get up for work. Learning your movements over a course of 7-10 days. Additionally Zing will notify you of unusual activity and send notifications to your phone.
At the heart of things, Zing is an LED night light with dusk to dawn light and motion sensors, which is powered by 12 full colour RBG and white LEDs, which are fully customizable, allowing you to make them as soft or as bright as you like.
Pre-order here!
Facebook is turning on it’s safety feature, the ‘Safety Check Hub’ that allows friends and relatives on your Facebook know that you’re safe in times of danger, conflict and terrorist attacks. It should reach everyone within the next few weeks as Facebook starts rolling it out. It won’t be a prominent feature and you’ll have to dig into the list of Facebook’s secondary features to find it via for lines in the far right hand side of the screen.
Why this has been turned into a permanent feature is anybody’s guess, but a cynic could argue it’s the sign of the times we are living in today.
Rock Star Ronnie James Dio passed away in 2010, but thanks to holograms the fomer Black Sabbath Frontman will once again start touring Europe on November 30th before going stateside next spring.
The set will change nightly according to Rolling Stone and audio recordings were pulled from his entire career. “He” will also get a backing band each night and some nights “he’ll” have singers Tim “Ripper” Owens (Judas Priest) and Oni Logan (Racer X) alongside him. The stage will go back to thee Sacred Heart and Dream Evil tours, and allegedly the band are booking between 80 and 100 shows.
To see how this may look check out the video above!
There was a lot of furore online recently with a lot of people upset a the prospect that the Windows Fall Creators Update is taking away MS PAINT?!
Well kind of.
The drawing programme that came with every Windows operating system from 1985 is being removed from the OS as a basic feature and will move to the Microsoft store. (so we can still draw a big mess and then fill it in!)
It’s becoming Paint 3D and has a ton of new 3D capabilities and do all of the things the old paint could do and for free!
There’s a backpack that will help you get the training you need on the job!
HP are launching the Z VR backpack that’s designed for professionals on the job, creatives, or soldiers who want to train on a virtual battlefield (and we’re not talking call of duty here) The backpack is incredibly powerful packing , vPro-enabled quad Core i& and a Quadro P5200 graphics card card with 16gb of video memory! It works primarily with HTC Vive Business edition, but you don’t have to use it with it, if your company uses Oculus Rift then it will play nicely.
HP are partnering with a bunch of companies to create a Mars Home Planet Project that focuses on VR for around the world collaboration to create infrastructure that will build a strong colony, from building massive structures to designing clothing. The sense is to give a user what it’d be like to live on mars. The sense of this ‘game’ is to give the users a sense of how powerful the backpack is and the uses that your company could use this for, such as designing a car or planning architecture, either in the same building or around the world.
Goldfish turn to alcohol to survive icy winters
If you’ve ever wondered how fish survive the icy cold waters, then the answer is a little bit stranger than you think.
A goldfish might look like a simple being but actually their body has the ability to turn the lactic acid in their bodies into alcohol as a means of staying alive!
When scientists examined this phenomena they found the fish to have levels well above legal drink-driving limits in many countries.
This research might actually help with the study of how alcohol impacts humans and although scientists have known about this survival technique since the 80’s new research has shown molecular mechanism behind this ability, which can be useful on many different levels.
US firm reveals gun-toting drone that can fire in mid-air
A tech firm in America has developed drones that are able to aim and fire while flying in mid-air.
The Tikad drone, developed by Duke Robotics, is armed with a machine-gun and a grenade launcher.
The gun can be fired remotely by remote control and have been designed to with the ideal to reduce military casualties by cutting down the number of troops on the ground.
Campaigners have been pretty vocal about the concerns they have about these drones, such as them being mis-used and killing innocent people.
Robotics expert Professor seems to agree with these concerns as he said ‘there have been many legal cases of human-rights violations using the large fixed-wing drones, and these could potentially result in many more.”
There has already been a lot interest in the drone from several governments but how it will be rolled out in the future will depend on America.
The Ögon Card Code Wallet is a secure wallet that is designed to keep your cards safe and secure from thieves, it has an integrated code lock (1000 possible combinations) that houses up to 12 cards. It’s small design allows you to open it with one hand and lightweight so you can put it away in your pocket without weighing you down. Etui RFID safe so it also protects your cards from malicious contactless card payments.
To buy the Ögon Code Wallet please click here!
Nokē is more than just a pretty face – it’s a smart lock. Nokē automatically finds and connects to your Bluetooth 4.0 enabled smartphone. Instead of fumbling for keys, simply walk up to your Nokē, press the shackle, and instantly access your possessions, it has anti shim technology and is really strong so you can be safe in the security that your possessions are secure.
The Nokē App makes it easy to manage multiple locks. Name your locks and create custom settings specific to each Nokē. Noke is also weather resistant and will stand up to even the most harshest of conditions!
To buy Noke please click here!