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!
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US regulators want to limit what people can do with their phones whilst driving. Sounds good to us! The US’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have published their first safety guidleines regarding driver distraction which specifically target things that you connect to your car such as music players or better yet, smartphones.
The guidelines, which are part of a second phase of NHTSA proposals are for the cars console. These were back in 2013 and they suggested that you got to touch a button to call someone rather than dialling a number. Which sounds really safe to us!
At the heart of it it is all about making things ‘dumber’ and ‘easier’ to use while behind the wheel to reduce the amount of distractions that we have while driving. The NHTSA suggest a thing called “Driver Mode” which are like Apple’s CarPlay and the Android Auto. Where a selection of apps or tasks are easily attainable through easy to use big button interface. For example Drivers could see maps that are on their smartphone in short chunks of texts that can be easily read from a quick single eye glance from the road, but with more reliance on voice activated commands than physical touch.
Sounds good right. But the NHTSA’s “Drive Mode” system, wants to go one step futher and prevent certain features being used whilst driving. Which makes sense as you shouldn’t be manually entering text whilst driving or adjusting maps to see where you are. The NHTSA suggests that it would be better with their “Driver Mode” to do things through “Driver Mode” where the user wouldn’t have to turn it on and it is automatically switched on once you enter the car and it the car is in motion.
However all this sounds really cool and safe and would go a long way to prevent accidents, these guidelines are exactly that guidelines. Car makers don’t have to implement the technology into their cars. Not only that some tech doesn’t play well with others like Google Maps doesn’t work with CarPlay so a driver has to mount thier phone on the dash.
While it is important to make our drives safer, it still requires users to use self will not to get distracted and it does seem quite nanny state like to control what we can and can’t do with the stuff we own when in certain situations.
Will there be ways to prevent us from having more and more accidents, only time will tell, but this seems like a cool way to do it.
To hear the guys chatting about this please click here!
Someone has created an Apple Mirror that actually WORKS! It’s just a concept from YouTube user “dymekraf” but it gives a cool insight into what Apple could actually do with an iOS intergrated Mirror. It can do a whole heap of stuff such as:
Check below to check out this guys cool invention!
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Bragi have released update “Bragi Dash OS2.2” and it makes the cool Bragi Dash’s even cooler! We love the Bragi Dash here at How To Kill An Hour and this update makes it even more ‘must have’ this Christmas time.
Amongst the plethora of features that it already has this update adds a lot more:
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To download the latest Bragi Dash update please click here!
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Remember back in the good ol’ days we had Frogger? No?
Well if you’re too young to remember Frogger it was a simple game, basically you had to get the frog as far as possible up the field as you can, avoiding things like water and crocodiles.
Well Crossy Road has modernised that game with tons of different characters and added features like collecting coins and challenges that you have to complete. But this time with a chicken. Why did the chicken cross the road. Well you’re about to find out!
With over 100,000,000 downloads these guys must be doing something right and for one, we find it incredibly addictive! You always want to see if you can get just one step further! Plus the added bonus is that it is incredibly easy to just pick up and play!
Click here to download Crossy Road! Apple / Android
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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
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SUPER MARIO IS BACK!!
Well you already knew about that but we have brand new information available for you this week!
The release date is December 15th
The price is $9.99
The game will initially be free but if you want to keep playing past a certain level then the $9.99 fee will have to be paid.
This Mario game is basically like the old Super Mario that we all know and love but this Mario can be played on your iOS device (iPad/iPhone) with one hand. Mario is constantly moving through the level while we use various jumps to get to the end! Mario changes up how he acts depending on the timing of the taps, so make sure you time them right!
There are 6 worlds filled with 24 brand-new levels!
Click here to be notified when Super Mario Run is available to download!
Check the video below for more info or click here to listen to the guys talking about the game!
