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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. How much time are we spending these days on social media? The U.K. based B2B marketplace DesignRush has analyzed website traffic data and reports that YouTube has us humans watching 1.3 million years of screen time each month..with more than 34 billion visits. Facebook is next with about 17.4 billion…and X..also known as Twitt...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. MPOWERD is a solar lighting company that continues to innovate. The latest are the Luci Site Lights…sort of like string lights without the string…that are charged in a case equipped with a solar panel and USB C port. And once again, the company is using proceeds to do good with drastically reduced pricing in third world countr...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Imagine making your living as a virtual tour guide. Kelsey Winans has been a popular virtual tour guide for Discover Live, a pioneering site featuring live, virtual world travel experiences. And her home was in Maui…and her live tours…were in Lahaina. “Right across the street here from the banyan tree is the Wharf Cinema Cente...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. When it comes to the world of automobiles, the concept cars that have been dreamed up over the years by designers have always been great fun. And now, the Ford Heritage Vault has added hundreds of those concept vehicles and their accompanying brochures to its increasingly popular Web site. Archive and Heritage Brand Manager Te...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. With the California Public Utlities Commission having approved 24/7 robotaxi services in San Francisco…there will be many more autonomous vehicles on the roads of the city. Among those who offered comments to the PUC in favor of allowing the expansion, was the faculty chair of autonomous vehicle engineering at Princeton Univer...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.     An AI powered platform for education.   It is called Silicon Valley High School….an accredited online school with more than 46 thousand students enrolled to date.   And founder David Smith says it is now integrating a range of AI based tools this fall and into the coming year…including personal AI tutors and guidance.  A...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        There’s a lot most of us don’t know when it comes to protecting computers, TVs and more from electrical power spikes and such.   Austere, a quality accessories maker is out with a new four outlet III Series of surge protectors that are stylish and strong…in addition to the six and four outlet VII Series.  And while th...

Searching for a portable power station? Storm season has arrived. What you should know about the latest powerful batteries from VTOMAN. Marty Winston, representing the company, chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin

MPOWERD is a solar lighting company that been delivering help to others from day one. Now, as it unveils Luci Site Lights, it is stepping up once again to assist in Maui. Founder John Salzinger chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        Canopy, a venture created jointly by Ford and ADT, is tackling the issue of pickup truck bed security with the new Canopy Pickup Cam.  The devices…arriving soon in September…are designed to work with any type of pickup truck..not just Ford models…and are a self install solution.   Chief Product Officer Sam Harris.. “T...

Love concept cars? The popular and free Ford Heritage Vault online has added the brochures and stories behind the automaker's concept vehicles going back to the start. Archive and Heritage Brand Manager Ted Ryan chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. You have lots of choices these days when it comes to trackers that let you keep tabs on your belongings typically using Bluetooth connections to your smartphone. Pebblebee is a company that offers some pretty unique features with its wallet and tag type trackers. They can work with the Apple or Google finding ecosystems and fo...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.    It is that time of year.     Searches for back to school supplies are up 450 percent over the last few weeks according to Google.  The company’s Christina Basilio says there are plenty of searches as well for info on specific subjects like physics and biology…with kids asking if the courses are hard.  Of course they are…b...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Building robots with artificial intelligence. We aren’t just talking about the Optimus robots that Elon Musk believes will become very big business for Tesla. Google’s robotics division is making some big advances too. Kevin Roose at the New York Times got a demo recently of how those robots are learning to manipulate objects...

Canopy is a joint venture from Ford and ADT that has developed the Canopy Pickup Cam for truck bed security. But it won't be limited to Ford vehicles. How does it work? Chief Product Officer Sam Harris chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. In case you haven’t noticed…deliveries from Amazon are getting faster and faster for many, if not most, customers. The online giant says it has delivered 1.8 billion items to Prime members either same day or next day so far this year. Transportation VP Udit Madan.. “At Amazon we offer over three hundred million items with tens...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Have you caught The Beanie Bubble movie in theaters or on Apple TV Plus? It is the true story….with a few name changes…about the Beanie Baby craze during the 90s and the very young employee, named Maya in the movie, who took Beanie Babies online…creating a Web site and boosting the resale popularity on eBay. She is in reality...

What's trending in back to school searches? Google's Christina Basilio chats with Techstination about the trends and school tech tools for students, parents and teachers.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.       The Oppenheimer movie and the Barbie movie…have been among the top search trends on Google of late.   And the searches go well beyond trying to find out movie times and theaters.    Google’s Luma Hamade… “On the Barbie front, a lot of people were wondering what is the all-star cast.   I think people got really excited...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. He is at it again. Jason Michael Paul, the music producer and creator of the first stateside Final Fantasy Concerts, The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Concerts and more…is about to kick off the world tour of Heroes: A Video Game Symphony… “The concept was developed a few years ago when I was on tour with The Legend of Zelda...

pebblebee is bringing new capabilities to rechargeable trackers. Such as? Co-founder Caniel Daoura chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.   How many streaming services do you use.   Synacor is a company that works behind the scenes with a product called CloudID to simplify the authentication process so when you go to watch that streaming service on a new device…it is less frustrating.   CEO Marc Zionts.. “So examples of customers in this space would be people...

Austere brings high quality A/V accessories to partnership with Victrola. With a focus on real protection and style Austere is gaining consumer response. Founder and CEO Deena Ghazarian chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Documentarian Dan Levitt's new book What's Gottten Into You- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner, is filled with science and history and lots of research. And his motive for the research was concern about his daughter's vegetarian diet. Levitt chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Like to tinker with smart home gear? The NSPanel Pro from Sonoff is a slightly under four inch touch screen that can be used in wall…replacing a wall switch…or go into a cradle for the nightstand or desk. It can control a wide range smart home devices with support for WiFi, Zigbee, Bluetooth and technology from eWeLink…where C...