Allison describes the Z-Wave Consortium and collection of compatible home automation products. The Z-Wave protocol is an interoperable, wireless, RF-based communications technology designed specifically for control, monitoring and status reading applications in residential and light commercial environments. The setting is the CES 2015 show room floor. Learn more at http://http://z-wavealliance.org Using a Screen Reader? click […]
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Lowes Innovation Labs Brings Us Helpful Robots and Virtual Reality Bathrooms
Allison interviews Amanda Manna from Lowes Innovation Labs about two new services being developed for use in Lowes and Orchard Supply Hardware stores. The first is their OSHbot: an autonomous retail service robot that simplifies the shopping experience for customers and employees. The second is the Lowe’s Holoroom: a home improvement simulator which applies augmented […]
Continue readingFinally Mophie Juice Packs for the iPhone 6/6+
Allison interviews Jerry Underhill from Mophie about their new Juice Pack battery cases for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and their new Power Stations with integrated cables. Mophie announced their recharging solutions at CES. You can find out more at http://mophie.com. Using a Screen Reader? click here
Continue readingThe Many Faces of CES
I talked about the evening at the Pepcom press event and that’s a good starting point to explain how many different kinds of CES’s there are. First of all, you’ve been told that CES is huge, but I wanted to try to describe how big it really is. Let’s start with the Las Vegas Convention […]
Continue readingHow Much Do You Really Walk at CES?
Steve and I had a great time for our first trip to CES. I want to start by talking about how far you walk at this event. You have heard people talk at length about how exhausted they were, how long the walks were. I must be a real maniac in my regular life or […]
Continue readingHow to Play Content from Your iOS Device On Your Mac
This week Steve’s uncle Bob wrote to me with some problems he was having controlling space on his iPhone and we thought maybe his vast podcast library was a culprit. He was using the Apple Podcasts app. I suggested he try using Pocketcasts for iOS from ShiftJelly because it gives a lot more control to […]
Continue readingCan a $60 Audio-Technica ATR2100 Microphone Compare to a $350 Heil PR-40?
I’m a member of a Google Plus Community called Podcasting Technology Resources which is super active with nearly 2000 members. It’s a great place to talk about gear and tools. Many early podcasters ask me what mic they should get, and that question gets asked really often in the Podcasting G+ community as well. The […]
Continue readingHISY Wireless Remote Shutter for iPhone
My mother-in-law has a tough job trying to find gifts for Steve and me. She knows we love tech stuff but what are the chances that she could find something cool that we don’t already have? Well this year she found something that maybe I don’t need but is still pretty cool. It’s called the […]
Continue readingUndead iPad
About a week and a half ago I was about to plug my iPad in to charge for the night, when I noticed it was indicating that the battery was completely drained. This is indicated by a black screen with a battery symbol showing a red line for how full it is (not very) and […]
Continue readingControl Your OS X Windows with Moom
My daughter Lindsay (you know her as Jibblies in the chat room) told me the other day that there’s one thing she misses from Windows 7 on the Mac, and that’s the ability to have a window snap to the left or right half of the screen (or top/bottom half). She loves throwing things out […]
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