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MYNT Smart Tracker

MYNT is a tracking device with remote control for your smart phone, all in one small device. It was a big challenge to make MYNT with a stainless steel casing so it would be thin enough to fit in your wallet, plus adding a fun and useful remote control feature so you can wirelessly control the shutter of the camera on your phone — it makes taking better selfies easier, as well as group shots without having to ask a passing stranger to help you out with a picture. Remote control of the music on your smart phone, and control PowerPoint or Keynote presentations on your Mac, all this with just one small device, your MYNT.
– Technically advanced – 1/8 inch (3.5 mm) thin enough to fit in your wallet
– Beautifully designed – Polished stainless steel casing
– Powerful and useful – camera phone remote shutter, music control and Mac computer Keynote & Powerpoint remote control

(MYNT Vimeo)

To buy your own MYNT tracker please click here!

Fallout 4 VR

Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, finally comes in its entirety to VR. Fallout 4 VR includes the complete core game with all-new combat, crafting, and building systems fully reimagined for virtual reality. The freedom of exploring the wasteland comes alive like never before.

As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home. (Steam)

Fallout 4 VR is available for PC, to buy click here!

Rocketbook Wave

The Rocketbook Wave provides the freedom of a traditional pen and paper notebook, while instantly blasting your notes into the cloud using your smartphone.

When you use Pilot FriXion pens with the Wave notebook, you can erase your notes using your microwave oven and reuse your notebook.  Available in 2 sizes – each book comes with one pen. (getrocketbook.com)

To buy your own Rocketbook please click here!

ODiN Laser Mouse

 

This mouse is crazy! But also actually really cool, it’s simply a little device that plugs in via USB on your computer/Macbook and projects an image of a trackpad on the desk. That image is now your trackpad! How cool is that!?

  • Award-winning motion-sensing projection mouse launched on Kickstarter and Indiegogo
  • Turn any flat surface into a trackpad with multipoint controls that support a range of gestures
  • Lightweight and compact – weight of less than 40g makes it easy to carry around
  • Compatible with PCs, laptops, and tablets with a USB port
  • Innovative design makes it a cool gadget to show off or gift to friends or family

To buy your own ODiN Laser Mouse please click here!

3D Sound One Headphones

3D Sound One headphones are much more than your standard stereo headphones. Get immersed in sound unlike anything you have experienced before. Release the tone that is trapped in your head and let it embrace your surroundings.

The spatial simulation of sound and the use of motion sensors (head tracking) produce an experience with unprecedented realism. Lose yourself into a multitude of surround sound sources adapting to the smallest of movements. (3Dsoundlabs.com)

To buy your own 3D Sound One Headphones please click here!

ASOS

ASOS Launch A New App Feature

ASOS launch new app feature

Like an outfit that a stranger is wearing? ASOS has launched a new app feature that allows you to take a picture of someone, it then searches through it's catalogue and finds clothing that is either the same in the photo or very similar!Music Credit: Biggie South Beats – Summer Breeze soundcloud.com/biggiesouth/biggie-south-beats-summer-breeze-instrumental-hip-hop

Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Tuesday, 15 August 2017

 

Do you like an outfit that a stranger is wearing? 

ASOS has launched a new feature on the smartphone app that allows you to take a photo of someone’s clothes, it then filters through 85,000 items on their site and then presents you with a selection of clothing that is either the same or VERY similar!

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ASOS

 

No more awkward chasing after strangers on the street asking them where they got their hat!

Will it Fry?

Tennents Lager are seemingly (according to their YouTube Channel) are going to be frying a series of objects and seeing if they work after being Deep Fat Fried! The first product to go through this vigorous testing is the Samsung Galaxy S8….Will it Fry? Well, you’ll have to watch the video and find out!

Disney Laughing Detection

Disney want to know how you enjoy their films, at IEEE’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Disney Research and Caltech highlighted the way they track facial expressions of people watching films.

The tech is so advanced they claim that they can predict the face’s future expressions through the remainder of a film, its called “factorised variational autoencoders” (FVAEs)

To make this possible, researchers used infared cameras to the audiences of 150 showings of 9 films, including a lot of Disney movies! Like Zootopia, Big Hero 6 and the recent Star Wars films.

After compiling this huge amount of data, they went back and tested it on some more moviegoers, after an initial set up period the FVAEs were able to predict when an audience member (remember these are brand new fresh audiences) was about to laugh or smile as tied to significant moments in each of the films. They hope to predict other emotive moments in films such as fear and sadness. How this data will be used is unclear, but it could help them better understand audience reactions than human based market research.

 

UK Email Hacker Trolls US Officials

A British prankster (@SINON_REBORN) has amazingly pranked a number of high level US officials writing to Tom Bossert (Homeland Security Officer) posing as Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner:

Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August. It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible [sic] quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening.

Bossert:

Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can’t refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is [redacted]

Scaramucci, was a victim as well with the prankster posing as Priebus.

Fake Priebus:

I had promised myself I would leave my hands mud free, but after reading your tweet today which stated how; “soon we will learn who in the media who has class, and who hasn’t”, has pushed me to this. That tweet was breathtakingly hypocritical, even for you. At no stage have you acted in a way that’s even remotely classy, yet you believe that’s the standard by which everyone should behave towards you? General Kelly will do a fine job. I’ll even admit he will do a better job than me. But the way in which that transition has come about has been diabolical. And hurtful. I don’t expect a reply.

Scaramucci:

You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A Man would apologize.

Fake Preibus:

I can’t believe you are questioning my ethics! The so called “Mooch”, who can’t even manage his first week in the White House without leaving upset in his wake. I have nothing to apologize for.

Scaramucci replied:

Read Shakespeare. Particularly Othello. You are right there. My family is fine by the way and will thrive. I know what you did. No more replies from me.
In a follow-up message @SINON_REBORN tweeted but which was not included in the CNN report, the fake Priebus taunted Scaramucci about his “zero dollar pay scale,” adding, “Keep spell checking your press releases, Anthony. It’s me that will be thriving.”

Scaramucci also fell for it again with Sinon this time posing as Jon Huntsman Jr Ambassador to Russia-designate:

Who’s [sic] head should roll first? Maybe I can help things along somewhat

Scaramucci:

Both of them,”

We can only assume he’s referring to Steve Bannon.

SINON_REBORN also posed as Trump’s son Eric in emails to Huntsman:

Thanks for the thoughtful note. Russia will be a challenging but no doubt rewarding assignment.

Fake Eric:

Maybe we could have Dad sat (sic) on a horse, top off, giving the full Putin! He’s in better shape than his suits suggest.

Eric Trump, the real one, was the only one who caught on to the prank and told the prankster  @SINON_REBORN that law enforcement were aware.

 

UK’s HUGE Theme Park

The UK’s HUGE theme park which is £3.2 Billion development for a brownfield site on the Swanscombe Peninsula in Kent, what’s currently an unused cement works will be transformed into a HUGE 872 acre park. That includes cinemas, restaurants, theatres, rollercoasters (of course) 3,500 hotel rooms, a development of the UK’s largest indoor water park and 14,000 parking spaces.

Tickets are estimated at a reasonable £57 and transport packages will be available as it’s next to Ebbsfleet international, which is 20mins away from St Pancras in London. London Resort Companies Holdings are behind the project and they were in partnership with Paramount, but now the deal is off the table but the development is still there to build rides based on Hollywood film franchises.

Building work (if the government approves plans which take 12-18months to approve) is planned to be undertook between 2019-2022 with doors opening in 2023.