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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Smart home tech for the holidays.  With both Amazon and Google having refreshed their lines of smart speakers for the holiday season…you can get noticeably better sound.  The new Nest Audio speaker is impressive…and can be used to create whole home music systems.  For smart lighting, Signify’s Wiz br...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Thames and Kosmos is a toy company originally created to bring science and educational toys from Germany to the U.S.  And they have four toys nominated for prestigious Toy of the Year honors.  Among them… WindPower 4.0 and The Amazing TightRope-Walking Gyrobot.  Both sell for about forty dollars…and...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Taking a math class at a community college launched Aisha Bowe’s career that led her to becoming a rocket scientist at NASA and an entrepreneur.  She is the founder and CEO of STEMBoard, an engineering consulting company and maker of the LINGO Coding Kit.  And the kit shows young people..even those withou...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Netgear was among the pioneers in creating mesh Wi-fi routers designed to let you cover homes or businesses of all sizes.  Now, the company is out with the Orbi WiFi 6 Tri band…system with a built in cable modem….that can save you space and money…if you are renting a cable modem.  Senior Product Line Mana...

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.  Some useful techie gifts.  One thing almost any computer user will appreciate is more storage.  And the USB-C Envoy Pro Elektron drives from OWC…are the smallest, most rugged SSD drive we’ve seen.  It’s designed to be crush proof…even waterproof…and comes in capacities up to two terabytes.  It i...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Products that help kill germs and bacteria have become pretty popular this holiday season during the pandemic.  There’s a wide range of UV-C light products….ranging from Klear Cap for standard water bottles…to Raycops UV-C vacuums….and iHome’s Power UVC Pro.. “So we found a way to build it into one of our cloc...

What did people search for during pandemic?: Google top 2020 searches.  Google's Marley McAliley chats with Techstination.

Lifesmart lift and massage chair innovations & more: CEO Mike Dolder & Alexandra Baker chat with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Konka, a leading TV maker based in China, has been pushing its branding into North America this year with some feature rich screens at great prices.  The Q7 55 inch Android TV with voice remote  we’ve checked out did need some setting adjustments to produce the kind of viewing experience we wanted, but on...

Obie for Seniors combats isolation with gesture controlled gaming.   EyeClick CEO Ariel Almos in Techstination interview.

A camera for your Apple Watch?   That's what WristCam has created.   Co-Founder and CEO Ari Roisman gives us a look in this chat with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  It’s a company that’s five years old…co-founded by Elan Lee…an Xbox games designer.  Now Exploding Kittens…which started with a card game that broke Kickstarter records…is out with lots more fun for the holiday season.  From Cat and Mouth…which uses magnetic catapults to launch balls…on a tabletop….to the...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  With more and more of us doing our holiday shopping online due to Covid and convenience…Google is out with a shopping guide …at www.g.co/giftguide and some data on what is hot.  Google’s Molly VandenBerg… “Of course in the technology category, no surprise that we see things like the Apple Watch Series 6 or the...

Entrepreneur & engineer Aisha Bowe creates STEMBoard Lingo Coding Kit to inspire young people.   Aisha joins Fred Fishkin for a Techstination interview.

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.  Cycling has been growing in popularity during the pandemic….and ebikes…that can give you a boost up hills or on long rides are selling out in many stores.  Brompton, a company has innovated for years with foldable bikes…hand made in London, has seen their standard and e-bike lines flying out the door.  Th...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Clckr…spelled c l c k r…is the name of a company that has designed a range of phone cases and stands…that can make your life a little easier.  The universal stand and grip can attach…using 3M backing…to just about any phone or case…and there are cases with Clckr built in.  Either way…they make it easier a...

Veteran owned company using tech to give better jobs to military spouses.  Triple Impact Connections CEO Craig Mento chats with Techstination.

Signify simplifies connected lighting with Wiz line.  Consumer Segment Manager Peter Soares in Techstination interview.

Google tracks hot holiday shopping trends: Google's Molly VandenBerg chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Some tech to help save on  precious kitchen counter space.  LifeSmart is out with a 10 in 1 Air Grill countertop cooking appliance that serves as an oven, toaster, dehydrator, air fryer, broiler, rotisserie and more…with touch controls and a remarkably small footprint.  The interface is intuitive…and...

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  A canister vacuum that glides along like a hovercraft on a cushion of air.  That’s what Ed DiRenna…at American Vacuuum Innovations has created with the Zero G Vacuum.  It can use Silver Micron bags.. “Which are anti-microbial and anti-bacterial and anti-viral.  By test and by consumer actual usage, i...

Thames And Kosmos garners 4 Toy of the Year nominations.   Marketing Coordinator Tom Wetzel chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Whether it is Cyber Monday….or any other shopping day this holiday season…the pandemic has changed the way we are buying things.  And for many retailers…it has meant some dramatic shifts…into areas of technology they perhaps hadn’t employed before.  Aki Duvvur is VP of IBM Public Cloud… “I think retailers...