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Front view of the Magfusion GameFrost Qi2 charger with the company name Aukey printed on the top of the charger face. It is circular, about 3 inches across and 1 inch thick. It has air vents on the periphery and on the front face of the charger. The face has a smaller circular disk that contains an LED display of temperature. The disk is suspended in the middle of the circular charger by four struts. In between the struts are small slits that can pass air and the hints of a small fan inside. Callouts appear next to three functions on the charger: 1) Wireless charging button, 2) Cooling button, and 3) LED light button.

CES 2025: Aukey Active Cooling Chargers, Slim ID Tags, & Powerbanks

Allison interviews David Wu from Aukey about their range of products that power mobile devices. He starts with the MagFusion GameFrost Qi2 charger with a built-in fan to keep your device cool as it charges. It is compatible with MagSafe devices and can charge up to 15W of fast charge power. David then shows their […]

Oblique view of the Elvie Rise in the bouncer configuration. It has a grey padded back against which the baby lies and a padded edge surrounding the oval-shaped bouncer. The bouncer is tilted at about a 30 deg angle. A three-point harness attaches to the two sides of the bouncer and the middle of the floor area between the baby’s legs. Shown in a semi-transparent version overlaid on the bouncer is the bassinet after being transformed. It is the same oval shape but horizontal with padded sides that extend upward about 18 inches. The bouncer/bassinet sits of four wooden legs that splay down and outward from the center of the underside.

CES 2025: Elvie Rise Bouncer that Transforms into a Bassinet

Allison interviews Alex Knox from Elvie about their Rise baby bouncer that transforms into a bassinet. You can rock the bouncer manually or set it to several automatic rocking modes through a mobile app. If the baby falls asleep, you can easily transform the bouncer into a bassinet without disturbing the baby by pulling a […]

Black and white drawing of the Lifehive frame against a yellow background. The frame appears similar to a picture frame with a thin outer structure. It is square and surrounds a substrate made from a small hexagonal honeycomb pattern. A yellow heating element is shown embedded in the substrate. It enters the frame from the top and forms a large hexagonal pattern nearly covering the substrate. The outer hexagon continuously spirals downward to smaller and smaller hexagons. A small honeybee is shown flying toward the frame in the lower left of the image.

CES 2025: Lifehive Chamber and Frames that Kill Bee Parasites

Allison interviews Pascal Brunner, CEO and Co-Founder of Lifehive, about their innovative technology that helps to keep beehives healthy. Their product kills the varroa mite, the most deadly parasite to honey bees, without using chemicals. Lifehive has designed a Langstroth deep brood chamber and accompanying frames that replace most beekeepers’ standard chambers and frames. Each […]

Fancy Transcripts of Video Interviews

This story was originally published on 2/5/25, but a significant addition was added on 2/8/25 when I learned more of what MacWhisper can do. I know I’m a weirdo with a podcast and blog posts for everything that’s in the show. I’ve told the story many times of how someone told me I shouldn’t do […]

CES 2025: Roam SodaTop for Making Sparkling Water on The Go

Allison interviews Tucker Jones from Roam, the maker of the popular countertop Sodastream that converts plain water into sparkling water. In this interview, Tucker shows their new SodaTop that also converts plain water into sparkling water, but you can do this while you’re out and about. Roam has developed a compact top that you screw […]

CES 2025: StethoMe Electronic Stethoscope for Home Use

Allison interviews Paweł Elbanowski, COO of StethoMe, about their electronic stethoscope for use in the home. StethoMe is a medical device that can be used by a non-professional to detect abnormal sounds in a person’s respiratory system. It allows you to listen to a person’s lungs at home and get an immediate and reliable examination […]

XCOOL in a woman's hand. about the size of her fingers stretched out

XCOOL Qi2 Magnetic Phone Charger – a Very Thin 5000mAh Battery

You would think that reviewing a battery pack would be a simple exercise. In fact, on a normal tech podcast, it would go something like this: “I got this nifty Qi2 battery pack – it’s thin and light and it has a capacity of 5000mAh. It’s only $20!” But you just know that’s not how […]

Security Bits — 2 February 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Updated Advice from Bart: back in 2019 I recommended the anti-malware not-for-profit DNS provider QuadNine (9.9.9.9) on the NosillaCast, I had been using it on my router since then, but not anymore, their service […]

Photo of the Petal assembly showing the camera inside of an orange, dome-shaped casing that attaches to one of the Petal’s flexible stems. Attached to another stem is a small, oval solar panel. Also shown is a universal clip and a spare flexible stem. The stems are white in color with stainless steel collared caps and they are surrounded by a light-yellow flexible casing. All of the items in the photo are labeled with text.

CES 2025: Wonder’s Nature-Inspired Camera, Petal

Allison interviews Franci Zidar, CEO of Wonder, about Petal, their new nature-inspired camera. Petal captures images of butterflies, bees, beetles, other insects, and small birds in your garden. It is constructed to look somewhat like a flower with a camera mounted in a colored dome-shaped casing at the end of a flexible stem. Also mounted […]

Photo of the Sharge Retro 67 GAN charger shaped like a tiny original Macintosh computer. The case is the typical beige computer color with a black display showing a green digital waterfall similar to what is shown in the movie The Matrix. Visible on the top of the charger are three USB-C charging ports and text indicating a max output of 67W.

CES 2025: Sharge Power Supply & Storage Products

Allison interviews Ryan Wu from Sharge about their array of power supply and storage devices along with their new AI glasses. What initially catches Allison’s attention are two small GaN chargers, both shaped like the original Macintosh computer. The smaller one has a single USB-C port and the larger one has three USB-C ports to […]

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