Allison interviews Kevin Brigham from LiftMaster about several of their connected products. First up is the well-known LiftMaster garage door opener, but this version is updated with myQ technology. myQ connects your opener to your home WiFi and provides remote operation and monitoring. With myQ and its accompanying mobile app, you can receive activity alerts […]
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Security Bits — 8 March 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. FireFox are continuing their roll-out of DoH, enabling it by default for new installs in the US — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… HomeKit Router […]
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CES 2020: SpotOn Wireless Smart Fence for Dogs
Allison interviews Ken Solinsky, Founder of SpotOn, about their virtual smart fence for dogs. SpotOn allows you to set up a single or multiple containment areas for your dog without using a physical fence. As the dog approaches the SpotOn perimeter, it will hear a series of tones through the SpotOn collar and if it […]
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CES 2020: NightWatch Epileptic Seizure Detection System
Allison interviews Dr. Jeroen van den Hout, CEO of LivAssured B.V, about their novel NightWatch system designed to detect epileptic seizures during sleep. The NightWatch system has a comfortable armband that closely monitors the wearer’s heart rate and motion during sleep. When the system suspects a major epileptic seizure, a warning is transmitted via a […]
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CES 2020: North American Lighting Adaptive Headlights
Allison interviews Kishore Ahuja from North American Lighting, a Koito Group company, about their adaptive headlight technology. Their “adaptive driving beam” provides a very bright, yet glare-free headlight to drivers of oncoming cars and cars that you’re trailing. This is accomplished by continuously sensing the position of each oncoming/trailing car and putting a shadow just […]
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CES 2020: LINEDOCK Dock for MacBook Pro
Allison interviews Quentin Malgaud, Co-founder & CEO of LINEDOCK, about their new full-featured docks for the 13″ and 16″ MacBook Pro. Sitting flush right under your MacBook, LINEDOCK’s sleek design integrates into any desk setup. It features eight hours of extra battery life, up to 1TB onboard Flash SSD, and it meets international aviation requirements. […]
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Using an Airtable Database to Watch TV
I don’t know about you, but Steve and I are finding it harder and harder to keep track of what TV programs we’re watching. Perhaps this doesn’t qualify as a top-tier concern in our lives but when you want to relax with a program and shut your brain off from the world, you don’t want […]
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CES 2020: Diamond Dog Screen Protector
Allison interviews Arun Karamcheti from Diamond Dog about their screen protectors for mobile phones. Diamond Dog utilizes a diamond-like carbon coating that has been used to protect hard drives for the past 25 years. Diamond Dog supplies protectors tailored to the screens of popular Apple, Google, and Samsung mobile phones. With each screen protector, they […]
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CES 2020: Satechi Keyboards and Desktop & Wireless Chargers
Allison interviews Austin Reitsch from Satechi about several of their new products. First up, Austin describes the Trio Wireless Charger that supports simultaneous wireless charging for the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods integrated into a single charging pad. Austin then describes Satechi’s new 108W Pro USB-C PD Desktop charger that supports simultaneous charging of the […]
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CES 2020: GuRu Millimeter-Wave Wireless Power Delivery
Allison interviews Ali Hajimiri from GuRu about their millimeter-wave wireless power delivery technology. GuRu’s system beams radio waves through the air to transmit power from a Generating Unit to a Receiving Unit. The millimeter-wave beams intelligently find and power the devices. The Generating unit plugs directly in a wall outlet and uses thousands of tiny […]
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