Allison interviews Laura Ruiz Asenjo from Flic about their small wireless buttons to use for smart home routines and automations. They are easy to get started with and configure, they replace voice commands, and they’re simple to use for everyone since they don’t need a mobile device to operate. Flic offers three control devices: the […]
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CES 2024: Ocutrx AR Headset for Patients with Macular Degeneration
Allison Sheridan interviews Ocutrx Chief Operating Officer, Mitchael Freeman, about their AR headset that helps people with macular degeneration see better. When first worn, OcuLenz glasses perform a visual field test to locate the visual defect, or scotoma, in each eye. With this information, OcuLenz creates a scotoma marker on the live video feed for […]
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CES 2024: MEATER Smart Meat Thermometer
Allison interviews Keye Chen from MEATER about their latest smart meat thermometer called the MEATER 2 Plus. The temperature probe for the 2 Plus is improved over the original MEATER system. The ambient end of the 2 Plus probe end is now stainless steel and can handle higher temperatures, up to 1000 deg F. This […]
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CCATP #750 Dave Hamilton on WiFi 6E Backhaul and Why You Might Care
WiFi Generations In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, I asked Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab to come on to talk to us about mesh routers and why we might care about WiFi 6E. In order to get to that though, I asked him to lay out some groundwork. […]
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MedallionNet® on Princess Cruises – “The Best WiFi at Sea”? – by Charles Gousha
Hi folks! This is Charles Gousha, from the Silicon Valley Mac User Group. When I was last here, for NosillaCast #592, I was preparing to head off to Alaska with Princess Cruises. It was a great vacation, hopping between the Alaskan islands with some of the best American glaciers you can see, but internet connections […]
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Security Bits — 27 June 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Two years ago First American Financial made the news for leaking sensitive financial data on more than 800 million documents for people who bought or sold a house in the preceding 16 years. […]
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CES 2021: Hex Home Security
Dan Bugos, product manager for Origin Wireless, joins Allison to talk about their Hex Home security product. This is a small puck called Hex Command that you connect to your network and two very small Hex Sense devices that plug into normal outlets. With these three simple devices, the Origin Wireless Motion Engine not only […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 6 December 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Social Media companies continue to work to curb abuses on their platforms: Twitter will soon show a warning when you try to like a misleading tweet — www.imore.com/… 🇰🇷 Facebook continues to run afoul […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Pause 5GHz on eero Mesh to Connect IoT Devices
Internet of Things devices (IoT), are proliferating into our lives, saving us from the incredibly arduous tasks of turning off light bulbs and closing our blinds. If you’ve been playing with IoT for any length of time, you know what I’m talking about. Setting up IoT devices usually follows this generic set of steps: Launch […]
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CPLAY2air Adapter brings Wireless CarPlay to your Car – by Father John
Hello, Steve Allison and the NosillaCastaways. This is Father john, calling from beautiful Northern Wisconsin. And being a priest, I’ve always had to do a lot of car work for my three parishes. So my problem to be solved. I am in and out of my car throughout the week. My car has CarPlay but […]
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