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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. While Aptera is aiming to deliver its first solar powered electric vehicles in the first half of next year…the company is licensing or selling its innovative solar technology to some new partners. Among them, is Polydrops, maker or super light weight, solar powered RVs. Founder Kyunghyun Lew… “We are trying to design it as ene...

Squad Mobility wins backing from the EU for the Solar City mini car. What will that mean for production? CEO Robert Hoevers, based in Amsterdam, chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Aptera is a west coast based company that is building a three wheeled electric vehicle that can be recharged by the solar panels that cover the exterior. Co-founder Steve Fambro says those panels can provide up to forty miles of driving range per day. The estimated overall range of the 2 seater Aptera is over 400 miles. While...

Mark Cunningham has taken lessons learned from his elite athletics days and applied them to consulting with the Achieve Institute. Some insights in his chat with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

HP Poly brings consumer-ish Voyager Free 20 earbuds to market with features designed to enable anywhere conferencing and music enjoyment. Details? Product Marketing Manager Alec Turowski chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. The FeatherSnap Scout is among the latest smart bird feeders to arrive….and is welcome. Among the best features…two large, easy to fill compartments for seed, built in solar panels that really do keep you connected and the camera operating…and smart choices for bird identification. While owners can view a live feed or see imag...

With EverFrost coolers to keep food and beverages cold for days and the C800 Plus for power, Anker is bringing convenience to camping. Anker's Emeline Bonnefoy chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. The online summer shopping frenzy is about to begin. At least…that’s what the online retailers hope for. The question is…how to you find the best deals? Google is offering some updated tools designed to be helpful. Trends expert Charity Mhende… “We just announced a refreshed Deals destination. So if you go on Google and you se...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. More hands on with a go-anywhere rechargeable TV. One of the gadgets we’ve been spending time with this summer is the 24 inch Companion HD TV from Skyworth. It is designed to run for about three hours on a charge….and has Google TV built in. If you are in the backyard…you can use your home Internet connection….or opt for camp...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.     Summer fun for kids with a little science thrown in.     If you haven’t seen kids play with Stomp Rockets before, you are missing an experience.   And now Stomp Rocket is out with The Space Collection.      It includes rugged replicas of the Saturn V Rocket, Space Shuttle Atlantis and Space Launch System.      And the en...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        With the launch of the fourth and final GOES U satellite….NOAA is enhancing its weather monitoring and forecasting capabilities.   And research meteorologist Bill Line tells us that is especially important when it comes to extreme weather and even tracking smoke from wild fires.   The new satellite will take some time...

Here come the deals. How to make the most of the big summer online shopping events? Google Trends Expert Charity Mhende chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        AI2030 is the name of an organization promoting the responsible and ethical use of AI.   The organization has an institute to foster those goals and a series of events …conferences and symposiums as well including last week’s Chicago AI conference.   Founder Xiaochen Zhang formerly led the global innovations team at A...

FeatherSnap Scout brings convenient features to smart bird feeder design. Such as? Director of Brand Management Abigail Knox chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Former Senator and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley and AARP Executive VP Nancy LeaMond join Fred Fishkin and Mary Furlong for a look at the impact of older voters on the latest episode of What's Next Living Longer Better Smarter!

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        Fourth of July related searches are among the top trends reported by Google.     For food…grilled pineapple slices and grilled halibut are trending.  That sounds pretty healthy.   But…says Google’s Charity Mhende… “Interestingly enough, in the past five years, searches for hot dog eating contest have surpassed searche...

Aptera, now forecasting delivery of its solar powered EVs for 2025, has a new technology customer in Polydrops, maker of solar powered RVs that can be towed by Teslas and more. Aptera co-founder Steve Fambro and Polydrops founder Kyunghyun Lew chat with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Biking to work with a backpack convinced Mark Dingle there had to be a better way. So he created Ventapak. What does it do? Dingle chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.   We’ve told you about the remarkable story of Other World Computing and founder Larry O’Connor.  And the innovations at OWC continue.  The Envoy Pro mini may look like a USB flash drive…but it is a true SSD…that you can rely on with both USB-A and USB-C connectors.  And it now is in capacities up to 2 terabytes.   It is ama...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        Larry O’Connor was still in high school when he started a little business because he wasn’t happy with some mail order computer printer ribbons.  The year was 1988 and he was 14.    Within a year…he had an 800 number and was selling memory upgrades for Apple computers.  In 1993…he named his company Other World Computi...

Ford is bringing its Bronco Off Roadeo adventures to Tennessee. What are the experiences all about? Consumer Strategy Manager Kelsey Gerken chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Hot dog eating, Bridgerton, Taylor Swift (of course) and more were among the top June search trends. Google's Charity Mhende chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. More Techstination recommended summer reading…this time from The Atlantic staff writer James Parker. He is out with a collection of odes titled Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes. It’s the kind of book you can pick up and read bit by bit at any time. But you may be tempted as I was…to just keep on going. The odes are that en...

Owl Labs has upped the ante again with the 4K Meeting Owl 4+. And it is smarter than ever, putting the focus on whoever is speaking while maintaining the full room perspective. How? CEO Frank Weishaupt chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.     What’s different about the S600 speakerphone from AnkerWork?       Plenty.   It is rechargeable and has a top that flips over to serve as a Qi wireless phone charger….a great sounding speaker…and surround microphones.   But the big deal the the S600’s ability to identify your voice….to block out other voices and noises a...