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Amazon Fire Tv Stick
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!
Perchang!
We have been killing a lot of time Perchang this week! It’s a FREE app which test your skill and puzzle solving across a mammoth 60 levels! So you won’t get bored of this app!
There are a lot of skill testing games included such as testing your co-ordination skills to guide tiny balls into their goal, be that a flipper or a hole or even a cog. But once you have done this it activates the next portion of the puzzle, however, if you take too long to get to the end of the puzzle you fail, you’re against the clock!
You’ll get faster and faster at completing these levels the more you play, thus increasing your co-ordination skills as you go, so there’s a healthy benefit to killing time too!
Click here to download Perchang Apple / Android
Click here to listen to the guys talking about Perchang 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!
Snapchat Glasses!
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!
BallPit Fun!
An adult ball pit is open for a limited amount of time, so get there quick! It’s based in London and called BallieBallerson, it’s filled with 20,000 balls and the venue has two floors, one which offers alcoholic drinks and food, while downstairs is where the nostalgia happens!
There’s even an option for bottomless spaghetti and meatballs! You can even go one step further, for £35 you get bottomless spaghetti and an hour in the pool and if that wasn’t enticing enough you are also allowed unlimited prosecco! (Just don’t go throwing up in the pool, ok!)
If you just want to go in the pool a normal ticket is £5. Wednesdays and Thursdays it is open from 6pm until 12am and on the party days (Friday/Saturday) it is open from 6pm to 2am!
Click here to find out more about BallieBallerson!
Click here to listen to the guys talking about BallieBallerson!
Amazon’s Luxurious 1 Hour Delivery!
Wines from Spirited wines and health and beauty products from John Bell and Croyden will be available to you within an hour (in selected London Postcodes) from Amazon! By joining forces with these companies Amazon will be expanding it’s product offering by approximately 47 percent.
If you are a Prime Now customer you can browse Amazon like normal or you can visit special John Bell & Croyden or Spirited Wines stores which will add the things you wish to buy to a separate shopping basket. You do however have to spend a minimum of £20 before the 1hr delivery becomes available. If you cannot wait and have to have your goods super quick 1 hour delivery slots will cost you £6.99 but if you can wait a little longer 2 hour delivery slots will not cost a single penny!
That’s not all either! Amazin are now going to offer one hour delivery (priced at the same as luxury goods) from Morrisons to selected London or Hertfordshire postcodes! Amazons link with Morrisons began back in June however this latest agreement between the retail giants expands the ranges that are available to customers.
Click here to listen to the guys talking about Amazon’s super quick delivery!
Seaboard 5D!
As well as making music with the Roli App we have also been playing around with a different app available from the same company (Roli) the Seaboard 5D app!
Designed to accompany the Seaboard Rise hardware from Roli the app allows you to also make music without it and create beats on the move!
Recreating the possibilities that are available on the Seaboard RISE, you can shape sounds using the 5 Dimensions of Touch: Strike, Glide, Slide, Press and Lift, with the use of 3D touch also there are so many possibilities! So not only will it make your iPhone/iPad a sound engine for the Seaboard RISE you’ll also turn it into a really powerful musical instrument!
It’s as easy as pick up and play so anyone of any ability will be able to make tunes within minutes, laid out like a piano keyboard it is not daunting either when you first look at it. Instead of a regular keyboard layout though it is like a continues set of “keywaves” that you can stroke of glide across. For example you can bend the pitch by gliding your fingers across the keys or modulate sounds by moving your finger up and down a keywave.
Click here to download Seaboard 5D!
Click here to listen to the guys talking about Seaboard 5D!