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Todd and Don interview Nortek's Rob Halligan about the new wireless speaker system called Korus, which instead of using wifi or Bluetooth, uses SKAA, a wireless hi-fi audio standard that won CES Innovation awards in 2010 and 2011. The benefit of SKAA is low latency and greater range, but the downside is that it's not built-in to any smartphone, tablet or media
Todd and Don interview Eric Stalker from HAL.tv about the new Remote Set Top box for controlling your TV with hand gesture or voice control. Once the box is setup, it allows you all kinds features like Hand control of your TV, Phone Calls, Reminders and a "mirror" mode. HAL is also coming out with a smart watch and smart
Eyetech, is company that focuses on the natural user interface, specializing in eye-tracking technology. This isn't a type of technology that is new -- you may have used it in such devices as the Kinect, which utilizes both voice and gestures to control your Xbox. The new hardware can be imbedded into other devices -- it's essentially a large chip. It
There's no doubt that wearables are where it's at right now, but devices such as Google Glass or Recon goggles are very much luxury toys. XOEye Technologies have taken a more practical approach, developing safety glasses with built-in video cameras and microphones for use in business, typically manufacturing, construction and field service industry. Don and Todd talk to Aaron Salow,
Todd and Don chat to Bradley Whitchurch from Seal Shield about their latest products aimed at both the healthcare market and technology users with active lifestyles. With expertise in waterproof and anti-microbial technologies, their core products are washable keyboards, mice and TV remote controls. In the video, Bradley demonstrates the Seal Shield's washable True Type keyboard by submersing it in
Livio, a company recently acquired by Ford, produces apps designed to work in cars -- a technology that Ford obviously has a great deal of interest in. If you aren't familiar with the company, it produces a library and developers can use this within their apps, which can then interact with the software, also produced by Livio, that is installed in the
Don Baine and Todd Cochrane interviewed Peter form Acton Global about their new M electric scooter. The little scooter folds up so you can take it with you on an Airplane, Bus or train. Once it's folded out, you can go 15 mile per hour for up to 15 miles. The Acton M scooter will be very useful for
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Yes, you read the headline correctly. The cassette may be gone from today's market, but it certainly is not gone from a number of cars that are still on the road. The company rep points out, correctly, that millions of these vehicles are still on the road and something needs to be done for all of those drivers. So, IonAudio has
Ventev offers innovative combined battery packs and chargers for smartphones and tablets. Scott Franklin, Director, chats with Todd and Don about Ventev's latest mobile accessories at CES. External battery backs for smart phones and tablet are very common these days, but the benefit of Ventev's unit is that the charger is integrated into the pack itself; there's no need for additional
The mp3 digital music format has liberated music in a way that would be totally unthinkable to a previous generation. The Walkman made music portable and the CD digitised music but the revolution came as the mp3 format compressed music to fit into a fraction of its true size. Instead of music collections stretching from floor to ceiling, they could fit into
The Buffalo LinkStation LS-421 Diskless NAS represents a small departure from the norm for Buffalo in that this is the first consumer-oriented unit to be offered as an enclosure without drives. While replacing drives in the previous generation of LinkStations was easy, it's good to see this being offered as an option from the start. GNC has reviewed several Buffalo units
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