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Codecademy offering scholarships for online learning: Founder Zach Sims in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Envision is bringing its smart AI app designed to give more independence to the blind and visually impaired…to the latest smart glasses created by Google.  Co-founder and chief engineer Karthik Kannan says it is designed to be able to provide reading and voice cues about surroundings…without the need to hold a...

Kaplan offering free online SAT test prep during Covid-19.   Director of Academics Dennis Yim chats with Techstination.

Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The smart home innovations at Lutron continue…and what I like is how one of the best known brands in quality electrical equipment for the home…has been able to identify ways…big and small…to simplify the smart home experience.  For instance..last year Lutron introduced the Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer…providing a...

Use time at home to train your brain with BrainHQ: Posit Science CEO Henry Mahncke in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Gupshup is the name of a messaging platform…available on Android devices…that is designed to us artificial intelligence to automatically sort that messages that arrive on your phone.  CEO Beerud Sheth… “It can automatically classify all incoming messages.  It also reads these enterprise messages and extra...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Hands on with the Pria smart medication dispenser.  I’ve been testing out Stanley Healthcare’s futuristic Pria device for some time now…a smiley faced screen that holds medications and dispenses them into a cup at the time they are supposed to be taken….ringing a bell as a reminder.  And it can alert love...

Brainly offers online help for students at home: CBO Eric Oldfield in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  LifeFuels is a company that is trying to do for water…what Keurig did for coffee…except in a techier way.  It has created a bottle…that holds three flavor cartridges… even vitamins…that you add with the push of a button.  And through an app and Bluetooth…you can monitor your hydration throughout the day....

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   The camera sensors many cars are using today for lane departure warnings and more…will also play a big role when it comes to autonomous vehicles.  But what happens when a road is snow covered…or when the lane markings are missing.  An MIT spin off called WaveSense is using ground penetrating radar…t...

Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Celestron is making it easier for budding astronomers to explore the night sky with its new line of StarSense Explorer telescopes.  Models range from a 180 dollar refractor type telescope to a 400 dollar reflector.  What they have in common is that they pair with a smartphone app to guide you along. &nbsp...

Learn With Mochi teaches coding without screens: Founder Mark Pavlyukovskyy chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   An online site designed to help consumers find and purchase travel insurance has been a very busy place of late.  The Coronavirus has many consumers worried about planning travel for the summer…and even the fall and winter months…and so they are turning to InsureMyTrip.com…where Manager of Marketing and...

Roybi robot personal tutor for at home learning: Founder-CEO Elnaz Sarraf in Techstination interview.

An app designed to improve hearing: AudioCardio CEO Chris Ellis chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The National Weather Service has announced plans to dramatically upgrade the computing power it uses to help make forecasts more precise…more localized….and even longer ranged.  Two new Cray computers each with 12 petaflop capacity….will become part of the system…beginning early in 2022.  National Weather...

Latest Retrospect back up solutions add more AI: GM J. G. Heithcock in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  What does it take to try to set the record for speed driving non stop across the country.  Obviously more than a touch of crazy.  But there is also an amazing amount of Mission Impossible type of planning.  Alex Roy has done it following in the footsteps…or tire tracks of the Cannonball Run and US Ex...

TurboTax further simplifies tax prep for self employed & more. Lisa Greene-Lewis TurboTax CPA & tax expert...chats with Techstination..

Envision unveils AI enabled smart glasses for the blind and visually impaired. Co-founder and Chief Engineer Karthik Kannan in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  With more and more insurers supporting it…telemedicine or telehealth has been growing rapidly…allowing doctors and other health care professionals to connect with patients over smartphones and tablets.  And the Coronavirus will only accelerate the adoption.  Some companies have been pushing the envelope....

Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  When it comes to producing clean, green energy…it is hard to get cleaner or greener than being able to generate electricity from thin air.  But that is exactly what scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are doing with a device called Air-Gen.  They revealed it recently in the journal Natur...