Allison interviews Kaycee Zeng from GoveeLife, a smart home appliance brand related to Govee. Kaycee introduces the company’s new line of smart ice makers, beginning with the Smart Nugget Ice Maker Pro, a countertop appliance capable of producing up to 60 pounds of nugget ice per day and starting ice production in as little as […]
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CES 2026: MIMO Detect Underground Utility Location
Allison interviews Jean-David Bigoni, COO of MIMO Detect, about their ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system designed to make underground utility detection much simpler and more accessible. The company has adapted traditional GPR technology to provide real-time visualization of buried infrastructure without requiring specialized analysis after a scan. The device resembles a large push mower and is […]
Continue readingVibe Coding: The New Addiction
If you’re a Star Trek fan, you might remember an episode of Next Generation where Commander Riker goes on vacation to the planet Risa, and he comes back with a really cool game that he said was all the rage down on the planet. The game was a headpiece that displayed these little virtual disks […]
Continue readingStrapsicle for iPad mini — by Bruce from Tennessee
This is Bruce from Tennessee with a review of the Strapsicle case for the iPad mini. As a disclaimer, I didn’t buy this case. Strapsicle offered Allison a review unit, and since Allison doesn’t have an iPad mini, and I had previously expressed interest in this case, she got them to send it to me […]
Continue readingCES 2026: Brilliance Small & Efficient RGB Laserchip
Allison interviews Brilliance co-founder and CTO Douwe Geuzebroek about the company’s development of a miniature laser system built on a chip for use in augmented reality glasses. The technology is designed to provide smaller, more power-efficient AR displays with longer battery life compared to conventional laser systems. Douwe describes the company’s approach as “photonic integrated […]
Continue readingCES 2026: HapWare ALEYE Wearable Assistive Tech for Nonverbal Communication
Allison interviews Jack Walters, CEO and Cofounder of HapWare, about their wearable device called ALEYE, designed to help blind and neurodiverse users interpret nonverbal communication. Jack explains that the system combines AI, haptic feedback, and the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to detect facial expressions, gestures, and social cues in real time. Those cues are then […]
Continue readingMindSpace — An Amazing Mind Mapping Tool You Can Afford
MindSpace in the Mac App Store You may remember the very sad day when Craig Scott, maker of my beloved iThoughts mind mapping tool, decided to shutter the doors on his company. I wrote an article called RIP iThoughts – Choosing a New Mind Mapping Tool, and it became one of my most popular posts. […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 24 May 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Mythos developments: From Anthropic: Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software — thehackernews.com/… Aided by Mythos Preview, Researchers Announce macOS Kernel Exploit Circumventing M5 Memory Integrity Enforcement — daringfireball.net/… […]
Continue readingCES 2026: Wireless Power Consortium Qi2 25W and Ki Standards
Allison interviews Petri Vuori about the Wireless Power Consortium’s (WPC’s) new Qi2 25W wireless charging standard, which raises Qi2’s power limit from 15 W to 25 W using precise magnetic alignment between phone and charger to maintain performance and control heat. He explains that moving to 25 W requires better efficiency and thermal management in […]
Continue readingQuickly Grab the Perfect GIF with Gnome from Lex Friedman
I am not one of the cool kids who can instantly come up with the right animated GIF right in the flow of a rapid conversation in services like Discord, but I want to be. I watch people like Mike Price and Jill from the Northwoods throwing in the right GIF at just the right […]
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