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Philips Hue Smart Bulbs
Nick Bright on the show introduced us to some ‘Smart Bulbs’ called Philips Hue and they are quite impressive!
The lights allow you to choose from 16million colours in the complimentary hue app to allow you to set the light to match your mood. The bulbs themselves have been improved with deeper green, cyan, and blues for even better scene setting. You can even use a photo and set the bulbs to colour that particular photo! The bulbs are even compatible with iOS’s HomeKit technology, ask Siri to turn on or dim the lights! You can even save your favourite light settings and recall them whenever with a touch of a button.
You can extend your TV Viewing experience to sync with your favourite show or favourite music to flicker to the beat! Can even control the lights away from the house! Remotely check if you have left the lights on, you can even and check out how cool this is, by using geofencing technology you can set the lights to turn on as soon as you walk through the door after work! Not only that you can wake up naturally with your Philips Hue Smart Bulbs and have the bulbs increase with intensity to reflect the sunrise or vice versa and have it dim slowly to reflect a sundown.
To buy your own Philips Hue Smart Bulbs please click here!
To listen to the guys discussing the Philips Hue Smart Bulbs please click here!
Tower of London Night Watchers Experience
Marcus recently went to a really cool event called NIGHTWATCHERS it’s located at the Tower of London and only accessible after hours.
The event is an after-hours is an after-hours immersive experience which is directed by the award winning digital theatre company ANAGRAM.
You get to be transported into a world of surveillance where you are guided by audio, messages on your smartphone and phone calls lead you to one of London’s most notorious prisons – The Tower Of London.
The NIGHTWATCHERS is your induction into the art of covert investigation, the story takes you on a trip between contemporary London and the most dramatic years of Elizabethen secret service.
NIGHTWATCHERS will return to the Tower of London November 2016.
Tickets
Running time: 60mins (approx.)
Age: 16+
Concessions: £18 (HRP members, unwaged Tower Hamlets residents, under 25s) with ID
Full-price: £20
To book your own NIGHTWATCHERS event please click here!
To listen to the guys discussing NIGHTWATCHERS please click here!
Body Worlds – Amsterdam
Nick Bright recently travelled to Amsterdam with his other half and discovered a really cool exibhition called Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS: The Happiness Project. Basically it’s an exhibition which shows off Humans without our skin.
This particular event that is running right now in Amsterdam is called The Happiness Project and tells a story of our body and the impact in which the feeling of happiness has on our health.
These bodies that are on show aren’t plastic models either they are real anatomical specimens of real human bodies on show which highlights how complex our bodies really are.
The ground-breaking BODY WORLDS exhibitions – also known as Körperwelten – have already attracted over 40 million visitors world wide.
Please see below for more information on the Body Worlds Happiness Project (Video is in Dutch but you can put closed captions on, click the settings wheel and then auto translate it into English)
Mission Breakout!
This week we went embarked an historic escape room located in the disused tube station South Kentish Town courtesy of our friends over at MISSION: BREAKOUT LONDON. It’s incredibly immersive and requires a lot of team effort, a great mind and some logic to solve a series of puzzles and clues to manipulate the machines and break the code!
Like most of the escape rooms that we have gone on here at How To Kill An Hour, we had a team of 4 people (Minimum of 3/Maximum of 6) to complete the challenges, most importantly we elected a leader and then worked and communicated effectively to get out in time – maybe.
MISSION:BREAKOUT LONDON is open Monday to Sunday 9am – 11Pm and is open on Bank Holidays and School Holidays too! Prices start from £20 per player!
To listen to the guys talking about mission breakout please click here!
To book your own game please click here!
The New Macbook Pro
The new Macbook Pro’s are here and they’re better than ever and they look so cool for one!
They’re obviously much more powerful than previous models, they’re much thinner and lighter and not to mention the screen has had a massive upgrade too! Now more brighter and colourful allowing you to work and view media gloriously!
But what is getting everyone talking is this new touch bar, a multi-touch enabled strip of glass that is fully customisable and changes depending on what app you’re using. They replace the function keys along the top strip of the keyboard and become something that is much more versatile than regular old function keys. For example you can have intelligent typing complete with auto-complete and emoji’s like you already have on your phone or on Final Cut Pro X you can scroll through your timeline with the Touch Bar quickly and easily.
The keyboard has had a slight upgrade too, becoming shallower than previous generations and is now much more responsive with a Force Touch trackpad which is now 2 times larger than before.
The Macbook Pro comes in 3 different formats:
13 inch Macbook Pro (with no touch bar)
13 Inch Macbook Pro
15 Inch Macbook Pro
For more information please click here!
To listen to the guys talking about the Macbook Pro please click here!
RIP VINE :(
What was once the epicenter for the short viral video creators you know and love today (King Bach, DeStorm, Hannah Stocking, Page Kennedy) Vine (before they all went to Facebook) was loved by millions of millennials around the world, creating usually relatable video meme’s or short funny videos that became meme’s in their own right has died.
Granted a lot of the creators had jumped ship to Facebook/Snapchat/Instagram due to more monetary values and the alure of Vine became less and less and less and less creators used Vine and thus did their audience.
Only four years ago before the app had even launched Vine, a mobile and web platform where users could post videos of up to 6 seconds which was put on an endless loop was purchased by Twitter for £24Million. Despite users being locked into Vine/Twitter (There was no way for the clips to be embedded on another social platform) Vine celebrities were created with hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of followers, with many earning a living with promoted and sponsored Vines.
There is not a date when the app will be closed by in a blog post from the creators on Vine’s blog site said that users will be “notified before we make any changes to the app or website”
However in a twist of events Pornhub VP Corey Price has offered to take Vine off of Twitter in an open letter:
“We figure since Twitter has dropped (Vine) and is having significant layoffs, that you and your stakeholders could benefit from a cash infusion from the sale of Vine. Not to mention we would be saving Vine gems like ‘Damn Daniel,’ ‘Awkward Puppets’ and many more.”
Not only that Pornhub wishes to “restore Vine to its NSFW glory…….six seconds is more than enough for most people to enjoy themselves.”
Let us know some of your favourite Vines via our Twitter : @howtokillanhour
To hear the guys talking about the death of Vine: please click here!