Ever wanted to fly your paper airplane that much better?
Bored of flying it once and then having to get up out of your chair to go and get it and throw it back?
Well that is a thing of the past thank to the PowerUp 3.0!
To buy your own PowerUp 3.0 please click here!
To listen to Marcus’ experience with the PowerUp 3.0 please click here!
To see what the PowerUp 3.0 is please view the video below!
Someone has created an Apple Mirror that actually WORKS! It’s just a concept from YouTube user “dymekraf” but it gives a cool insight into what Apple could actually do with an iOS intergrated Mirror. It can do a whole heap of stuff such as:
Check below to check out this guys cool invention!
To listen to the guys chatting about the Apple Mirror please click here!
We love our music here at How To Kill An Hour and we love our wireless speaker technology even better! Ever since Apple took the 3.5mm adapter away from us all we have been looking at ways at getting your music out there and in the room wirelessly. We love the Bragi Dash’s but what about if you want to share the music?! Well the SONOS:Play 1’s are here to save the day!
These little speakers pack an incredible punch and they sound absolutely magnificent! Pack some great base and some decent high ends these guys really sound good! But what’s even better is that if you have more than one or a selection of SONOS speakers you can control them all from the SONOS Controller app. Adjust the sound levels independently of one another. So the one in the bedroom can be quiet and the one in the office can be incredibly loud or control the sound levels at exactly the same time. But what’s cool about them is that they will be playing the same piece of music at the same time from the exact same source! They can also:
To download the SONOS Controller app please click here!
To buy your own SONOS Play 1 please click here!
To listen to the guys chatting about the SONOS: Play 1’s please click here!
Bragi have released update “Bragi Dash OS2.2” and it makes the cool Bragi Dash’s even cooler! We love the Bragi Dash here at How To Kill An Hour and this update makes it even more ‘must have’ this Christmas time.
Amongst the plethora of features that it already has this update adds a lot more:
To buy your own Bragi Dash’s please click here!
To download the latest Bragi Dash update please click here!
To listen to the guys chatting about the Bragi Dash Update please click here!
We have recently been sent the Amazon Echo and we love it! If you don’t know Amazon Echo is a home automation device that sits in your room and is controlled via your voice only. There is no screen and it includes only a 360 degree omni directional speaker with far-field voice recognition technology built in. Far field Voice Recognition technology is basically a really cool piece of tech that allows Alexa (the internal voice in the echo) to hear you from a far and in noisy environments or when you are playing music. The Echo is controlled entirely with your voice and is activated by simply saying “Alexa”
Alexa can do a range of things including:
To learn more and buy your own Amazon Echo please click here!
To listen to the guys chatting about the Amazon Echo please click here!
We love our gadgets here at How To Kill An Hour and the Kenu Stance is no different, in fact we love it! It’s basically a really small and simple tripod, that is the first tripod that utilizes your phones charging port to safely mount the phone, it’s designed to go on to small surfaces, like a wall, a table or a window sill. The tri-pod can be designed to either stand a phone upright or fold up the legs and stabilize the phone to watch a film in landscape mode, it can also be used to shoot incredible timelapses like this as well!
There’s a bunch of functions that the two differing tripod options can do such as:
It even has a built in key ring and bottle opener so this little device is more than just handy for photography, it can even get the party started!
To listen to the guys discussing the Kenu Stance please click here!
Please see the video below for more information!
Prices start at £13 for Android Phones and £20 for iPhones with lightning connectors.
To buy your own Kenu Stance please click here!
To listen to the guys discussing Kenu Stance please click here!
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!
Always knocking over your drink or spilling it everywhere?
Having tech ruined by glasses of water that have accidentally fallen over?
Well we have JUST the tech to combat all of those problems with absolute EASE!
It’s a mug that sticks to your desk when it is bumped into but will lift incredibly naturally!
Introducing the MIGHTY MUG! View the video below to see the mug in action!
Prices start from £12
Click here to buy your own Mighty Mug!
Click here to listen to the guys talking about Mighty Mugs on the show!
WhatsApp has hit iMessage with a massive punch and added video calling to their app for FREE.
First they started with regular old instant message, then group message, most recently they added voice calling to their ranks and now they’ve probably put the nail in iMessage’s coffin with Video Calling.
No more green messages! Yay!
Click here to download WhatsApp Apple / Android
Click here to listen to the guys talking about WhatsApp Video on the show!
Snapchat has been causing quite the fuss on social media lately and it’s all down to their first piece of physical hardware. Snapchat Glasses. They cost $130 Dollars (Selling for 1000 dollars on ebay) and are only available in pop up ‘stores’ or vending machines which are called ‘Snap Bots’.
There have even been reports of people waiting in line for up to 4 hours in line for these glasses! They are available all around the US however, they aren’t advertised and you have got to scourer your Twitter feed or around the cities or your local area to find them.
The glasses feature a camera with a 115-degree lens, which apparently mimics how we as human’s actually see. When you record footage (connect the glasses via bluetooth to your android or iOS device) the video is shot in circular video. However when you view the footage in the Snapchat app and not on your video/photos app the video then fills the screen, if you rotate the device too you get a super clean and smooth transition, thus allowing you to see more of the image.
The battery lasts about a day or 100 video snaps so it depends on how much you shoot really. You’ll want to keep a hold of the case which holds 4 charges itself, so you can get theoretically around 400 snaps per charge cycle (4 charges)
Click here to download Snapchat! Apple / Android
Click here to listen to the guys talk about Snapchat glasses!