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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 […]

CES 2025: Light Matrix Naked Eye 3D Displays

Allison interviews Kira Fong from Light Matrix about their naked eye 3D displays. The Light Matrix display can take a 2D photo or video and, through processing, convert it to a 3D image or video for viewing. No glasses or special equipment are needed to view the image or video in 3D. The best viewing […]

Photo of the robotic dog Sparky which appears as an angular, mechanical, dog-shaped robot made of metal. It has a body, 4 legs, a head, two ears, but no tail. It is silver and black with red highlights at the pivot joints. The joints in the robot’s neck, legs, and shoulders are at the same locations on a dog. The feet are just stubs made of rubber for traction. There is no face but instead a black shiny plate behind which a camera will eventually be placed.

CES 2025: Hengbot’s Robotic Dog, Sparky

Allison interviews Xiaohu “Tiger” Kang, CFO and Co-founder of Hengbot, about a prototype of their robotic dog, Sparky. This is a small, highly dynamic robot that moves in a lifelike manner. It has multiple interaction modes, such as walking in any direction, swimming, jumping, and dancing. Sparky has been designed for secondary development with a […]

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