Allison interviews Takuya Nonaka from ViXion about their autofocus eyewear called ViXion01. ViXion01 is pair of glasses that measures the distance of what you are looking at with a sensor and automatically changes the shape of the lens to provide a focused image to your eyes. It instantly autofocuses to shift focus between near and […]
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New and Improved XKPASSWD — Now in Beta
If you’ve been a NosillaCast listener for any length of time, you’ve heard Bart and me talk about a service he created called XKPASSWD, This service helps you create long, strong, but memorable passwords. He wrote this service a zillion years ago in the Perl language and hosted it at xkpasswd.net. This is such an […]
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Are You Bored Hearing about Apple Vision Pro AND Have FOMO at the Same Time?
Are you getting really tired of hearing about Apple Vision Pro? Yeah, me too. I’m not sure why really because I’m sure it’s an awesome device. I have no doubt that the people who have them are delighted with them. I definitely feel FOMO – fear of missing out – because everyone is so excited […]
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CES 2024: INNOPHYS Muscle Suit
Allison interviews Yaji Yu from INNOPHYS about their Muscle Suit wearable exoskeleton. The Muscle Suit is an assistive suit that helps lighten the load on your back as you lift and move heavy objects. The Muscle Suit is strapped around your shoulders, chest, waist, and thighs and it takes about 10 seconds to put on. […]
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Security Bits — 18 February 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. It’s not just in Google Search Results that malicious ads are getting through ATM: Facebook ads push new Ov3r_Stealer password-stealing malware — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (The lure is different though, job ads with malicious PDF downloads, […]
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CES 2024: Y-Brush Electronic Toothbrush
Allison Sheridan interviews Jad Sassine from Y-Brush about their innovative Y-Brush Electronic Toothbrush. Y-Brush has a handle that connects to a tray of 35,000 nylon bristles that form around your teeth to simultaneously brush them all, upper and then lower. To brush your teeth, you simply place the tray on your upper teeth, activate Y-Brush’s […]
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RICOH OLED Portable Displays are Gorgeous AND Have a Kickstand
A Little Back Story I started using portable USB-C displays when on travel about 4 years ago, starting with the tiny 12″ Eyoyo 2K display. When that one died, I upgraded in 2021 to the Cocopar 15.6″ 1080P display. I missed the higher resolution of the smaller display, but the Cocopar was good enough that […]
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CES 2024: Govee Smart Lighting for the Home
Allison interviews Matthew Ungar from Govee about their range of smart lighting products designed for the home. Matthew first shows Govee’s home theater lights which include the DreamView lighting system which reacts to images on the TV and changes the color and intensity of lighting in the room to create a fully immersive experience. All […]
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Image Descriptions for Social Media – ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial
In the olden days, it used to be really hard to add descriptions to images when posting to social media. You probably know that without an image description, people with visual impairments who use screen readers get zero values out of your posts. But it was so hard that a lot of people didn’t bother […]
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George from Tulsa on Display Settings and Why He Went With a 45″ Curved LG Display
iBook Snow on Wikipedia Hi, I’m George from Tulsa and I started this piece thinking it would be a simple report about my new monitor and how it answers Allison’s great framing question, “What’s the problem to be solved?” Answering that required context – I could have begun with the 5″ screen in my first […]
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