Tag Archive for: How To Kill An Hour

Wash Clothes Like UBER?!

Electrolux, the BIG washing machine company are testing a crazy new way of getting your clothes washed — by someone else.

CEO Jonas Samuelson has told the Financial Times that they are testing an Uber like service where you would pay to get your clothes washed at someone’s house. While you would need to change up your washing machine for it to have wi-fi and it to be connected to the app itself, it would help save money in the long term from washing equipment (Washer/Dryer) that for most of the week is idle.

While this sounds quite weird (people stealing your underwear!) there are other hurdles that need to be addressed too. For example, what if your clothes shrink or clothes colour runs? Who pays for that? There is also the potential for people to buy houses and turn them into laundromats? or If someone forgets to wash your clothes? Gives you somebody else’s clothes?

Jonas Samuelson doesn’t say when this will go live to the public if at all. But if this goes ahead it will be interesting to see what problems they face from it being used day in day out.

Listen to the guys chatting about this here!

 

Amazon Supermarkets!

Amazon are testing a radical new concept for the supermarket.

Amazon’s crazy idea eliminates any requirement for any cashiers (say goodbye to those annoying self service checkouts!) simply tap in (similar to how you would tap in to the train station in London via an Oyster card) grab whatever food you need and then walk out. You are then billed to your Amazon account on your departure.

Available only in Seattle at the moment and you can only try it if you’re an Amazon employee or beta tester, public trials are scheduled to start sometime in 2017.

Amazon said in a press release:

“Our Just Walk Out technology automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart.”

View the video below to see what Amazon Go is all about!

Click here to hear the guys chatting about this radical new scheme!

Episode 123 Phone Shopping

Episode 122 – RAM in your mouth

Power Up 3.0!

Ever wanted to fly your paper airplane that much better?

Bored of flying it once and then having to get up out of your chair to go and get it and throw it back?

Well that is a thing of the past thank to the PowerUp 3.0!

To buy your own PowerUp 3.0 please click here! 

To listen to Marcus’ experience with the PowerUp 3.0 please click here!

To see what the PowerUp 3.0 is please view the video below!

PS4 Experience

This week there was a Playstation Keynote, the ‘Playstation Experience’ and there was A LOT of good news!

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

Episode 121 – The Final Vegan Fantasy!

Episode 120 How MarsCorp Kills Time

Episode 119 How Edith Bowman Kills Time

Episode 118 Grilling Bill w/Funk Butcher