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Beeline smart navigation

Beeline – Smart Navigation

Powered by an app, Beeline is a smart compass. Meaning, rather than using your usual sat nav giving lots of confusing instructions, it simply tells you the direction and distance to your destination or next waypoint. You make the decisions.

Beeline includes special features including a speedometer, a clock and a battery readout.

The display is crisp clear, water and shock proof, prepared for any weather!

You can save your favourite destinations and journeys. Battery life lasts up to 30 hours!

 

Download the app for Apple and Android.

To buy the Beeline click here!

Sphero Star Wars BB-8 Droid

Sphero Star Wars BB-8 Droid

Yes! What you are seeing is real!

There is a special Star Wars edition to Sphero and it features the one and only BB-8 Droid. Guide your BB-8 with your iPhone, iPad, or Force Band by downloading the app!

The droid comes with a variety of different modes:

  • Droid Control Mode: lets you use the Force to push, pull, and control BB-8.
  • Combat Training Mode: gives you the feel of wielding a lightsabre, battling with a blaster, or channelling the force.
  • Force Awareness Mode: uncovers digital holocrons in your environment and lets you collect them in the app.

You can even create a Holographic Communication Record and view virtual holographic videos with BB-8!

 

Download the app for Apple and Android.

To buy the Sphere BB-8 Droid click here!

3D Printed Mice

3D Printed Mice?!

Yes you read that correctly!

Scientists from Northwestern University have developed a bioprosthetic ovary using 3D-printing technology and produced living, breathing mouse offspring from them.

While the study is focused on mice, it is targeted towards women who survived childhood cancer and may not have otherwise had the chance to have children due to the cancer treatment’s damage to their ovaries.

To hear the guys chatting about this please click here!

 

the big smoke

Big Smoke Scavenger Hunt

The Big Smoke Scavenger Hunt is an exciting, fun filled day out in London.

The challenging and unique experience consists of taking photos of or with 10 different places or things, taking 10 videos with different challenges and buying or finding 10 different objects.

You have 2 hours to complete all of these challenges, the team with the most completed tasks, wins a trophy!

To hear the guys chatting more about this, please click here!

To find out more about The Big Smoke Event click here!

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Episode 241 Big Smoke Scavenger Hunt

Nintendo Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Nintendo ‘Tidy Up’ Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Inkling girl, on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, gesture has been changed as her original move was seen to be ‘offensive’.

The gesture, performed by the Inkling girl, where she grabbed her bicep with her hand has been removed in the latest version of Mario Kart.

Nintendo simply didn’t realise that it meant something completely different and somewhat offensive in Europe to what it does in Japan.

Nintendo New Gesture

Nintendo’s New Gesture

Nintendo Old Gesture

Nintendo Original Gesture

Places in Europe, such as Italy, the gesture with the hand on the bicep means “Up yours” or “**** you!”

For Nintendo this is not a good look, so the gesture had to be changed.

 

To hear the guys chatting about this please click here!

To buy Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Nintendo Switch click here!

 

attack on titan

Attack on Titan

If you don’t know what Attack on Titan is, it is a Japanese manga, anime, post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy series.

A walled city is attacked by strange looking giants, what do they want? who are they?

 

To hear the guys chatting about this please click here!

To buy the first season of Attack of Titan click here!

To buy A.O.T: Wings of Freedom on PS4 click here!

Instagram

Instagram Mental Health

A new report suggests that Instagram is now ranked as having the most detrimental effect on young people’s mental health.

“Instagram ranked as having the worst effect on young people’s mental health”

Young people aged between 14-24 find social media impacts a number of health and wellbeing issues. These include depression, anxiety, loneliness, sleep deprivation and bullying.

Instagram, the photo sharing platform, harms young peoples perceptions of body image and also increases their ‘fear of missing out’ (or FoMo).

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Facebook Instagram Notifications

Facebook and Facebook Messenger have a special button which allows users to switch between the two apps. The social networking platform is trialling a new feature. This will allow users to switch quickly between not only those to apps but also Instagram.

The feature is basically an extension, in the top right corner of the Messenger app. The trial will display a pop-up menu with all unread notifications across the three platforms.

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram pop-up menu

Facebook, Messenger & Instagram pop-up menu

To hear the guys chatting about this please click here!

Download Facebook Messenger on iPhone and Android!

Download Instagram on iPhone and Android!

 

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Episode 240 The Ladybird Book of The Hipster