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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.    Predicting the future and future technologies can be a hazardous undertaking….so futurist  Chunka Mui has taken a bit of a different approach.  He has co-authored a book titled A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the World We can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050.  In it…he talks...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  GM’s OnStar has been in the business of providing emergency help and peace of mind to drivers for many years.  And now, through the OnStar Guardian app…GM is offering many of the features and peace of mind to anyone…regardless of the type of vehicle they drive….or are a passenger in.  We have found it sma...

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.  How do you bring electric vehicles to all of the fleets out there?  Ford is trying to tackle some of the issues…like those surrounding charging…with a new Mobility Studio partnership with  Newlab.  It will be based at Ford’s Michigan Central innovation effort where Roshni Shokar leads startup and ent...

Google Pixel Pass is a plan that gets you a new Pixel phone every two years...along with some of the top Google services.   Product Manager Chris Breithaupt joins Techstination's Fred Fishkin for a closer look.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  BlendJet is back with more designs in its portable blender line for the upcoming holiday season.  The USB C charged powerful BlendJet2…can handle just about any kind of smoothie or chore on the go…the new designs look great too.  Co-founder and CEO Ryan Pamplin is on a mission to promote healthier eating…...

From showing older adults how to use the Uber app to almost any subject under the sun... the GetSetUp.io community is flourishing.  Promoting learning while alleviating loneliness.  And it started during a chance meeting in the Himalayas.  Co-founder Lawrence Kosick chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

What can the Whiteboard Owl do for remote meetings?   From letting you see the board right through presenters to automatic focusing on others in the room and more.  CEO Frank Weishaupt & co-founder Max Makeev give Techstination's Fred Fishkin a look.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  What’s next for your connected kitchen.  A couple of entrepreneurs think a Smart Cutting Board is a sharp idea.  Tony Frick and his wife, Alissa,  have co-founded BLOK…and have surpassed their goal on Kickstarter to bring it to market… “So BLOK is essentially the Peloton of the kitchen.  Think a...

The Got2Glow Fairy Finder, My Squishy Little Dumplings and Pop2Play line are some of the hottest toys this holiday season.   WowWee's VP of Brand Development and Creative Strategy, Sydney Wiseman, talks about the toys, the fun and the supply chain with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Whether it’s in a shared office space….at school…or at home…those computer keyboards and mice can be major carriers of germs and viruses.  But using some common disinfectants on them can sometimes cause damage to the devices.  Kensington is making it easy to determine what is safe and what isn’t by making...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Anker and its Soundcore brand have jumped into the audio glasses business in a big way with Soundcore Frames.  The sound is delivered through speakers in the arms of the glasses….and is impressive using what the company calls an OpenSurround System.  And there is real innovation in the design that lets yo...

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 outdoor tech innovation, SylvanSport is never standing still.  It has won fans far and wide for the SylvanSport Go camping trailer…compact and full of innovation  and has an all electric motorhome in the works. Even the company’s Cloud Layer sleep system…with a top of the line self inflat...

The Oura Ring 3 arrives mid-November bringing new sensors for day-time heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen level, women's health and more.  And a new subscription model.   Product Manager Chris Becherer chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  There are some pretty exciting new features enabled by the Tensor chip arriving in Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones today.  For instance…there’s language translation in real time even when you are offline.  The top notch camera features a first…Real Tone technology to capture better images of peopl...

Jump-starting electric vehicle charging start-ups is the goal of Mobility Studio, a partnership between Newlab and #Ford's Michigan Central... where Roshni Shokar heads start-up and entrepreneur engagement.   She chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin about the efforts to spur electric vehicle adoption

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  If you love paper airplanes… come on now…who doesn’t…  PowerUp Toys is back with ways to turn those folded forms of flight into something fantastical.  CEO and founder Shai Goitein…an industrial designer and former military pilot..created a concept of adding a rechargeable remote controlled propulsion sys...

What is the Mecha Kit from Segway-Ninebot for?   Fun!  And it is full of tech innovation.  VP of Sales and Marketing Tom Hebert chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Shadow Robot has enabled the Tactile Telerobot and the Converge Robotics Group to reach the finals of the ten million dollar ANA Avatar XPrize competition.   What can it do?   Shadow Robot Managing Director Rich Walker chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

A cutting board with cooking classes?   That's what BLOK is all about.   How does it work?   Co-founder Tony Frick chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  It is called the Ability Hand…a bionic prosthetic hand developed by Psyonic… designed to deliver multitouch sensory feedback…with fingers that can flex…and is ready for over the air updates.  The innovation is remarkable  Founder and CEO Dr. Aadeel Akhtar..says it can be covered by Medicare…which is a big...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Designing a better wireless keyboard.  Logitech has done it again with the MX Keys Mini.  The Mini here means compact….taking up less space on your desk….or these days…the kitchen table.  It features what Logitech calls Perfect Stroke…designed for responsiveness and accuracy…and the ergonomics of the...

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.  NuHeara is a company that has been among the pioneers in creating earphones designed to improve hearing…without the hearing aid image issues that prevent many people from getting the help they need.  Now the Consumer Technology Association has  named NuHear the 2021 company of the year.  Co-founder D...