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Hooked App
We have been killing time with this really cool reading app called HOOKED. No really hear us out!
Hooked is an app where you get to write stories which are told as short text message sized in conversation form. It’s almost as if you’re reading someone elses’ chats…kinda creepy but also really interesting! You can also write stories with your buddies by creating characters and getting your friends to improv the next part of the story!
See below more details:
New stories added daily!
HOOKED UNLIMITED SUBSCRIPTION:
– You can subscribe for unlimited access to our full story catalog and premium content
– The subscriptions are $2.99 weekly, $7.99 monthly and $39.99 annually*
– You’ll be able to read unlimited stories for the duration of your subscription
– Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
– Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
– Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package
– Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase
– No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
– You can read our privacy policy and terms of use at http://telepathic.tv/privacy.html
– Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication
Click here to download Hooked Apple / Android
Click here to listen the guys talking about this on the show!
Smartphone Car Problems
US regulators want to limit what people can do with their phones whilst driving. Sounds good to us! The US’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have published their first safety guidleines regarding driver distraction which specifically target things that you connect to your car such as music players or better yet, smartphones.
The guidelines, which are part of a second phase of NHTSA proposals are for the cars console. These were back in 2013 and they suggested that you got to touch a button to call someone rather than dialling a number. Which sounds really safe to us!
At the heart of it it is all about making things ‘dumber’ and ‘easier’ to use while behind the wheel to reduce the amount of distractions that we have while driving. The NHTSA suggest a thing called “Driver Mode” which are like Apple’s CarPlay and the Android Auto. Where a selection of apps or tasks are easily attainable through easy to use big button interface. For example Drivers could see maps that are on their smartphone in short chunks of texts that can be easily read from a quick single eye glance from the road, but with more reliance on voice activated commands than physical touch.
Sounds good right. But the NHTSA’s “Drive Mode” system, wants to go one step futher and prevent certain features being used whilst driving. Which makes sense as you shouldn’t be manually entering text whilst driving or adjusting maps to see where you are. The NHTSA suggests that it would be better with their “Driver Mode” to do things through “Driver Mode” where the user wouldn’t have to turn it on and it is automatically switched on once you enter the car and it the car is in motion.
However all this sounds really cool and safe and would go a long way to prevent accidents, these guidelines are exactly that guidelines. Car makers don’t have to implement the technology into their cars. Not only that some tech doesn’t play well with others like Google Maps doesn’t work with CarPlay so a driver has to mount thier phone on the dash.
While it is important to make our drives safer, it still requires users to use self will not to get distracted and it does seem quite nanny state like to control what we can and can’t do with the stuff we own when in certain situations.
Will there be ways to prevent us from having more and more accidents, only time will tell, but this seems like a cool way to do it.
To hear the guys chatting about this please click here!
Bragi Update
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:
- Windshield (Advanced audio transparency. Hear your surroundings, but
block out the wind) - Bragi KUI and MyTap (Bragi’s KUI (Kinetic User Interface) means your body
now controls the device in new ways. Activate Siri and Google Now with MyTap by double tapping on your cheek.) - MyControls (A more detailed access to more gesture controls via the Bragi App)
- Apple Watch Connectivity
- More accurate heart rate monitor
- Improved Bluetooth
- Versant 1.1 – More improvements in speech recognition in noisy environments
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!
Kenu Stance
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:
- Streaming live video.
- Creating time-lapse videos.
- Watching films.
- Chat using FaceTime and Skype.
- Take use of the timer option on your phone’s camera better with self-timer shots.
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!
Crossy Road!
Remember back in the good ol’ days we had Frogger? No?
Well if you’re too young to remember Frogger it was a simple game, basically you had to get the frog as far as possible up the field as you can, avoiding things like water and crocodiles.
Well Crossy Road has modernised that game with tons of different characters and added features like collecting coins and challenges that you have to complete. But this time with a chicken. Why did the chicken cross the road. Well you’re about to find out!
With over 100,000,000 downloads these guys must be doing something right and for one, we find it incredibly addictive! You always want to see if you can get just one step further! Plus the added bonus is that it is incredibly easy to just pick up and play!
Click here to download Crossy Road! Apple / Android
Click here to listen to the guys talking about Crossy Road on the show!
WhatsApp Video!
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!
Pineapple Pen!
Marcus was feeling a little bit poorly recently so had a lot of time to kill and some of that time was killed by playing a game which is poor but it’s so poor it’s good. This is one of those games. Pineapple Pen.
It’s simple, all you got to do is stab the pen into the pineapple. Tap on the screen to throw the pen to try and hit an apple or a pineapple. Simple. Easy and Fun. Kinda.
Download and hear Marcus’ thoughts on the game below!
To download Pineapple Pen please click here Apple / Android
To listen to the guys talk about Pineapple Pen please click here!