Tag Archive for: technology

WoeBot

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WoeBot a chatbot available only on Facebook Messenger is a therapeutic chatbot designed and created by a team of Stanford psychologists and AI experts and doesn’t show any personal information publically via the newsfeed.

A session with WoeBot is free for 14 sessions, then you can either pay weekly ($12), Monthly ($39) or annually ($312)

Silicon Valley is developing chatbots to help cure and treat mental disorders like depression, with studies already showing hope that therapy via a chatbot may work.

During a trial at Stanford, students aged 18-28 showed reductions in anxiety and depression when they used the Woebot for 2 weeks.

As many of those suffering from anxiety or depression cannot afford to see a therapist and pay for prescribed medications it is here where Woebot steps in and where Silicon Valley hope will help cure many of those who have the mental disorder.

Woebot is conversational and is appropriate for those aged 18 and older, if you’re younger you need a parents permission to sign up for it.

It can track moods, which are displayed weekly via graphs, looking for patterns that are out of the norm, learning its user via the amount of conversations they have. Woebot also has the ability ability to teach via cognitive behavioural therapy. (A structured talk therapy which normally lasts a few sessions)

To try Woebot please click here!

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

DJI Spark

DJI Spark

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DJI Spark is a mini drone that features all of DJI’s previous products signature technologies, including: intelligent flight control options, a mechanical gimbal and a camera that takes spectacular images with great quality!

Other special features include:

  • Quick Launch – This is where the Spark recognises your face (FaceAware), lifts off from the palm of your hand, takes off and hovers in the air.
  • Simple Control – Take amazing photos by controlling the Spark with only a gesture of the hand! You are the controller!
  • Create With Ease – This feature allows you to create cinematic aerial videos with intuitive controls and Intelligent Flight Modes.
  • Edit and Share – Editing and then sharing your pictures or videos on social media is made simple! The DJI GO 4 app features automatic editing templates and a selection of filters. Quickly edit and then share!

To buy a DJI Drone click here!

 

Google Ad Block

Google Ad-Blockers

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Google are currently working on an ad-blocker called ‘Funding Choices’.

Ad-blocking programs are designed to protect consumers from the intrusive web ads that slow down browsers and suck up personal data.

Majority of publishes and producers rely on advertising revenue, so the ad-blockers take ‘a big toll on their companies. So giving the consumers the option to pay for ad-blocking would cover these expenses.

Recent figures from Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) show that 22% of UK adults use ad-blocking services online and in 2016 alone, the service Ad Blocker Plus claimed to have over 100 million active users worldwide.

To hear the guys chatting about this please click here!

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2007 Predicting 2017!

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2007 is all but a decade ago. A DECADE AGO!

Feel old right?

Anyway, this video from NBC in America predicted some pretty cool stuff to happen next year…..see the video below to see what they got right (quite a lot actually) and what they didn’t correctly predict!

I’m still waiting for this!

“You’re rushed to a hospital unconscious with no ID or medical history. But, thanks to a microchip under your skin, it’s all there.”

Click here to listen to the guys chatting about it on the show!

 

Amazon Supermarkets!

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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!

The Faithful Mattress!!

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Well here’s one for the paranoid lovers out there, someone has come up with a surefire way** to tell infidelity!

There’s a mattress (costing £1,200) which informs you when your partner is CHEATING! (*If they have sex on your bed)

According to its Spanish manufacturers Durmet, it has concealed sensors that are supposed to detect sexy movements and send a text to you or your partners phone depending, if well you know…

The company’s hilarious tagline is:

‘If your partner isn’t faithful, then at least your mattress will be,’ according to the company’s slogan.

Apparently the technology is so advanced,they will be able to see in real time which parts of the bed are being used.

Better to be safe than sorry, right?