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2013

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V-Studio looks to enhance your video recording

V-Studio, short for "virtual studio", is a new setup from Darim that is designed for those looking to record professional style video for a podcast or YouTube show. Camera angles and zooming can be easily controlled and a whiteboard can be inserted onto the screen as it is being recorded. The V-Studio comes in both consumer and professional versions. The

Omron Strapless Heart Rate Monitor

Lifestyle health products are very popular and Jamie Davis looks at one of the amazing healthcare products on show at CES 2013, the new Omron Strapless Heart Rate Monitor. The Strapless Heart Rate Monitor does away with more usual chest belt, replacing it with a device that’s more akin to a chunky wristwatch, which can be worn all day and not just

Siemens Aquaris Hearing Aid Line

I grew up with a Grandmother who was hard of hearing and communicating with her was hard and often frustrating. Any time someone introduces an improvement in hearing aid products I am interested. Siemens showed off their new Aquaris Micon line at CES 2013. The Aquaris line is water proof, dust proof, shock proof. So unlike normal hearing aids you

Get in shape with Bodymedia Fit Armband Tracker

Technology has been moving into the exercise space lately with lots of new mobile apps and even some hardware that you can easily carry with you when you are out for your daily run or at the gym. The Bodymedia Fit is capable of tracking pretty much every single thing you do. It tracks calories burned, steps taken, exercise and

Ideal Life

Ideal Life has a complete end to end wireless biometric monitoring systems to monitor chronic heath conditions like cancer, diabetes, heart problems. They allow the patient to be monitor daily outside a hospital environment. Currently they work directly with businesses, such as hospitals, insurer and home health care companies who then give the devices to patients as they are being

Griffin MicConnect for iOS at CES 2013

Jeffrey Powers goes all Pop Idol when he chats to Jackie from Griffin Technology about the newly announced MicConnect, which connects iOS devices to XLR mics with phantom power. The Griffin MicConnect is a small brick adaptor with an XLR socket (input) on one side for the microphone and a 3.5 mm jack on the other to connect into an iPhone,

Has CNET Lost all Credibility due to CBS Rules?

CNET the once independent tech news service is now being told what they can, and cannot report on by parent company CBS. The once darling of the tech space is now just a pawn of the CBS owners who are not allowing CNET to be a independent news arm. First was the fiasco at CES where CNET had to rescind

LifeProof Cases

 Jamie Davis talked to Gary the CEO of  LifeProof.  LifeProof makes cases that are built to be used in a medical environment, such as a hospital or ambulance. There are cases for iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and some Android devices. They are waterproof, dirt proof, and shock proof up to military specifications.  Unlike some waterproof cases, the LifeProof cases are

CTX Technologies introduces a keyboard on an keychain

Vitual keyboards are not new, but CTX Technologies has managed to get one down to a size where it can actually fit on a keychain. That may sound hard to believe, but there are a few tricks that make this possible. The keyboard works via bluetooth and CTX claims two hours of battery life. In addition it features a volume

Canon Vixia R Series of Camcorders

Jeffery Power spoke to Ben of Canon at the Digital Experience Booth. They talked about the Canon new R series of video cameras. They are part of the Vixia line. What makes this line special is you can connect them to your smart phone by Wi-fi. There are several apps that you can use, the first is Camera Access. It

Final Pick of the Day

It’s a last day of CES, Jeffrey Powers, Andy McCaskey, Alltante Sparks and Daniel Lewis gets together and talks about what they saw during the event. There were somethings that wowed them and some disappointments. They all found some small company doing inventive things and that is what they concentrated on. The average price point that they saw was around

The latest from Canon – the Powershot N

There are plenty of digital camera makers on the market, and several of them have solid, recommended devices, but Canon is arguably the leader in the space. At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the company showed off a new member of the family -- the Powershot N. The latest member of the Powershot family has some unique

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