Allison interviews Stephan Floyd from Tobii about their assistive technologies for people with communication and mobility disabilities. Stephan describes Tobii’s new eye tracking technology while Allison visualizes scenes through the device. The setting is CES Unveiled at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Learn more at http://tobii.com Using a Screen Reader? click here
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#505 Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 6, Lowes Innovation Labs, Taming the Terminal Part 27 DNS
How much you really walk at CES, and the many faces of CES. We start playing our CES interviews with Mophie announcing their new Juice Packs for the iPhone 6 and 6+. Next we talked to the Lowes Innovation Labs about their OSHBot Robot and their virtual reality home improvement system using the Oculus Rift. […]
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Allison interviews Fred Faulkner from Mobee about their new battery/charging solutions for Apple desktop products. Their new Magic Feet device wirelessly charges an Apple bluetooth keyboard and a Magic Mouse using proprietary inductive technology. The setting is the CES 2015 show room floor. Stay tuned for a hands on review of the Mobee system next […]
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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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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 readingMore Tag#504 ATR2100 Mic Shootout, HISY Wireless Remote Shutter, Drafts V4, Play iOS Audio and Video Through Your Mac, Pat Dengler on Apple Consulting
Audio shootout to see if the $60 Audio Audio-Technica ATR2100 Microphone Compare to a Heil PR-40. Next up a review of the $16 HISY Wireless Remote Shutter for iPhone. Kirschen Seah from FreeRangeCoder.com joins us with a review of Drafts from AgileTortoise.com. I tell you my tale of woe about my Undead iPad and why […]
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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 […]
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