Tag Archive for: photos

Polaroid Mint Instant – Print your Selfies!

/in /by

#WhatsInTheBox – Polaroid Mint Instant

The Polaroid Mint Instant is a traditional camera which has been turned on its head! With this fantastic little device, which has been vertically designed, especially for Polaroid pictures. You can print your selfies. Instantly! All in 60 seconds!

Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Thursday, 16 January 2020

 

This little device is incredible, listen up all you selfie lovers, this piece of tech is just for you! The Polaroid Mint Instant is a traditional camera which has been turned on its head! With this fantastic little device, which has been vertically designed, especially for Polaroid pictures. You can print your selfies. Instantly! All in 60 seconds!

Not only that but the paper that you print your selfies on instantly become a sticker! This device will become your go to holiday snaps camera. Take a picture and print them in less than a minute. In a world that’s fast becoming digital, it’s refreshing to see a piece of tech that’s bringing back tangible photos.

The Camera

The photos that this camera takes are on a 16 megapixel lens too, so the photos that you’re going to be taken are going to be of a very high quality. The printer has no toner in it either. The zinc cartridges that it takes combine the paper and the ink. Plus you can buy the paper in packs of 20,30 or 50 sheets.

Furthermore the vertical orientation design of the Polaroid Mint Instant whilst mimicking the classic polaroid photo, they are taken upright, just like a smartphone. There’s a bunch of different modes too. Such as vibrant color, black and white or vintage.

You can also use the Polaroid Mint app for iOS and Android to add things like borders and filters!

(Polaroid)

Purchase a Polaroid Mint Instant by clicking here!

Polaroid Mint app: iOS / Android

Keep up to date with everything How To Kill An Hour by signing up to our newsletter by clicking here!

Let us know what you think of the show by clicking here!

Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel to see more amazing ways to kill time!

Follow us on Twitch by clicking here!

Polaroid Mint Pocket + Print and take your photos wirelessly!

/in /by

What's in the box? Polaroid Mint Pocket Printer!

The Polaroid Mint Pocket will turn your selfie game on it's head! With this fantastic little device, which has been vertically designed, especially for Polaroid pictures.

Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Thursday, 16 January 2020

This little device is incredible, listen up all you selfie lovers, this piece of tech is just for you! The Polaroid Mint Pocket will turn your selfie game on it’s head! With this fantastic little device, which has been vertically designed, especially for Polaroid pictures. You can print your selfies. Instantly! All in 60 seconds!

Not only that but the paper that you print your selfies on instantly become a sticker! The Polaroid Mint Pocket will become your go to holiday snaps camera. Take a picture and print them in less than a minute. In a world that’s fast becoming digital, it’s refreshing to see a piece of tech that’s bringing back tangible photos.

You can also use the Polaroid Mint app for iOS and Android to add things like borders and filters!

Purchase a Polaroid Mint Pocket by clicking here!

Polaroid Mint app: iOS / Android

Keep up to date with everything How To Kill An Hour by signing up to our newsletter by clicking here!

Let us know what you think of the show by clicking here!

Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel to see more amazing ways to kill time!

Follow us on Twitch by clicking here!

2000 VS 2020

/in /by

So 2020 is right around the corner, which is a whole 20 years ago! So our friends over at OnePlus decided to compare what we did with technology to what we do currently and beyond. It’s quite eye opening to see how far we’ve come since the year 2000 and the Millenium Bug. Who remembers THAT! How scared were we? For nothing! Anyhow, without further adieu check out below how far we’ve come!

2020 vs 2000 – In 2000 we:

  1. Played snake….in 2020 we play the piano on the OnePlus 7T Pro
  2. Blackberry messaged….in 2020 we say what’s up on Whatsapp
  3. Called a premium rate number to get a ringtone such as Ms. Jackson, in 2020 our phone is on perma-mute
  4. An sms costs around 12p….in 2020 the only people who send sms are Dominos (but who can resist 50% off?)
  5. Our mobile phone batteries lasted around three days….in 2020, we’re shouting across the office “who’s got a charger I can borrow?”
  6. The o2 was called the Millenium Dome and o2 was called BT Cellnet…and in 2020 the Millennium Dome & BT Cellnet are both called o2 – Orange is now EE and One2One is now T-Mobile
  7. We had to use a digital camera to take a phone, as camera phones didn’t exist… in 2020 digital what! Camera phone cameras are so advanced, there’s no need for a traditional camera of a lower res
  8. Apps meant a uni or job application… in 2020 the app market is worth an estimated $71.3 billion
  9. We used to upload our holiday photos from a digital camera into Facebook albums…nowadays we let everyone know we’re on holiday by posting our hotdog legs and pina colada on Instagram
  10. We walked around with a mobile phone and a Diskman…we currently stream til’ our heart’s content on a smartphone

Credit: OnePlus

Keep up to date with everything How To Kill An Hour by signing up to our newsletter by clicking here!

Let us know what you think of the show by clicking here!

Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel to see more amazing ways to kill time!

Follow us on Twitch by clicking here!

Robot Guards will take your photo!

/in /by

Robot Guards will now take your photo if you attack it. In various places in America robots are roaming about to monitor places such as banks, casinos, malls and hospitals. Earlier this month in Hayward California, a security robot captured video of an alleged attacker before it was knocked over.

Knightscope who make the robots say that they weigh a total of 398lbs. That’s alot! Knightscope tells The Verge that there are 75 robots deployed in 15 different US States, and a report at Vox suggests that they won’t be replacing human guards any time soon. Slack has two robots from Cobalt to help secure it’s offices, but real human guards are still there.

The bots do simple on-duty tasks such as scanning a doorway. While humans need to intervene if it detects some tomfoolery. Futhermore the bots from both Knightscope and Cobalt don’t have any weapons so won’t be able to use force.

(The Verge)

They don’t have weapons now but we wouldn’t be surprised if things like tazers and batons where implemented into the robots at some point in the future.

Keep up to date with everything How To Kill An Hour by signing up to our newsletter by clicking here!

Let us know what you think of the show by clicking here!

Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel to see more amazing ways to kill time!

Follow us on Twitch by clicking here!

twitter video

Twitter video becoming like Snapchat?

/in /by

Twitter are said to be working on a Snapchat style video sharing tool. Twitter video is about to get very interesting in the next few months if the latest rumour is true. The social media platform are said to be working on a new way to make sharing videos on it’s platform easier.

Three sources have told CNBC that a Snapchat like camera-centric feature is in the works and may follow the same life that Snapchat’s snapmap works. So, for those unaware’s Snapchat’s Snapmap allows you to scroll around the map of the world and zoom into certain areas to see what’s going on in the world. Within this feature there is a huge focus on popular events.

According to CNBC’s sources, Twitter’s version of this would utilise the already popular Twitter moments feature that is already built into the social media platform. The location data on popular photo’s and videos would merge with the Twitter moments. Therefore creating a much broader collection of data and information surrounding important events.

Twitter Video: Growth

Most notably this new feature would allow Twitter to grow on the growth that it’s had recently. By implementing this new Twitter video discovery feature, it will attract advertisers to the brand. Sponsored content among user created content will help Twitter. The social media platform will grow, as well as promoting impact in the wider world.

While this seems as though the feature is at the very early stages of development. We’re rather excited by what the future holds for Twitter video. As especially since the growth of live content on Twitter, as shown by Twitter’s focus on livestreaming news content.

To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!

To download Twitter please click here Apple / Android

Keep up to date with everything How To Kill An Hour by signing up to our newsletter, please click here!

Prynt

/in , /by

The Prynt connects to your smartphone and allows you to print pictures from anywhere, plus they are ink free and are also stickers! What’s even cooler is that you can add short videos to your photo’s to create real ‘boomerang’ style videos of your printed photos. (You have to see it to believe it!)

To buy your own Prynt please click here!