Allison interviews OWC CEO Larry O’Connor about several products currently available at OWC. He starts with the Clingon, a small plastic device that helps to secure and protect your USB-C connector when it’s plugged into a USB-C port. Larry then describes OWC’s Thunderblade v4 drive (Gen 2) with up to 8TB of flash storage and […]
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CES 2019: Sandman Alarm Clocks
Allison interviews Alex Tramiel from Palo Alto Innovation about their Sandman alarm clocks. The Sandman is a modern hybrid of the charging station and alarm clock. The integrated USB ports and cable management allow the user to charge up to four devices at once while hiding the clutter. The Sandman features larger than usual 1.8” […]
Continue readingCES 2019: Danby Parcel Guard Smart Mailbox
Allison interviews Cory Weirmier from Danby about Parcel Guard, the first smart mailbox that will be certified by the USPS. Parcel Guard’s anti-theft drop slot will fit 95% of all standard delivery box sizes with the option of unlocking the bottom door for larger parcels. Equipped with an IP camera, Parcel Guard is made of […]
Continue readingCES 2019: Royole Flexible Smartphone Display
Allison interviews William Strand from Royole about their new FlexPai smartphone/tablet. FlexPai is the world’s first commercial foldable smartphone with a flexible display. FlexPai can be used either folded or unfolded, giving it the portability of a smartphone plus the screen size of a tablet. The device was first launched in October 2018 in Beijing […]
Continue readingCES 2019: APH Devices for Blind Readers
Allison interviews Craig Meador and Dave Wilkinson from the American Printing House about two new devices being developed to assist blind readers. The first is the Canute from Bristol Braille Technology. The Canute features nine lines of forty characters of Braille. It supports all six-dot Braille codes and tactile graphics. The second is the Graphiti […]
Continue readingCES 2019: MaxDrive Storage for Wyze Cam Video
Allison interviews Max Stoneking from Wyze about MaxDrive, their new private cloud storage device for Wyze Cam video. MaxDrive serves as a local or remote backup for video footage from the Wyze Cam’s SD card. The drive continuously and automatically stores videos generated by all Wyze Cams that you designate on a given network. It […]
Continue readingNC #688 Parallels Update, Bellus3D FaceApp, Affinity Designer for iPad, Security Bits
We’re off to Macstock Expo next week so the show will be 2 days late next week. In this week’s show I’ll explain why even though I’m retired, it was a really stressful week (and why). I’ll tell you why Steven Goetz was only partially right when he said we need to make the Mojave […]
Continue readingNAB 2018: Audio-Technica Microphones and Headphones
Allison interviews Gary Boss from Audio-Technica about their wide range of microphones and headphones. Gary describes the Audio-Technica System 10 digital wireless system made up of a compact receiver you can mount on a cold shoe combined with a handheld mic/transmitter or a lavalier mic hooked to a body pack transmitter. System 10 is easy […]
Continue readingNAB 2018: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Allison interviews Terry LoBianco from Backblaze about their B2 cloud storage services. B2 Cloud Storage is similar to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure storage, and Google Cloud Storage. This service is Backblaze’s latest product offering, with the lowest price enterprise cloud storage service on the market. B2 Cloud Storage, referred to as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or object […]
Continue readingNAB 2018: Boinx mimoLive Digital Video Studio
Allison interviews Oliver Breidenbach from Boinx about their mimoLive video software for the Mac. mimoLive allows the user to produce, edit, and stream video content with remarkable ease. Typical use cases for mimoLive are live streaming, news-style shows, panel discussions, presentations, and events. The tool is very affordable while giving the video producer tools that […]
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