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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Imagine you are travelling on a plane or a train and able to hold a phone conversation without the person seated next to you being able to hear what you are saying. A new mobility privacy mask called Skyted makes that possible. The French start-up is on Kickstarter now…and has backing from Airbus and the European space agency. The mask uses a microphone…wired or wireless …and baffles to prevent sound from escaping outside of the mask. CEO Stephane Hersen..

“So that’s the basics of the technology, really to stop the sound here. After, you are going to have Bluetooth, which is going to come down the mask to your phone, one that is going to come to your ear buds or Air Pods, so we’re totally agnostic with all your other equipment. And we can have it wired, if you want it very simple.”

Curious? Find more at www.skyted.io.

You can find us at Techstination.com. I’m Fred Fishkin

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Looking to trap a better mouse? Targus is out with the ErgoFlip EcoSmart Mouse. It features great design…with lines that bring a humpback whale to mind. Appropriate since it is 85 percent made with post-consumer recycled materials. It features a smart ambidextrous design …easily convertible…with a twist….and it also has antimicrobial protection. The price…about 60 dollars. Another new mouse…designed for gamers, is the Mercury M2 mouse from Gravastar. It has a sci-fi spaceship design…complete with lighting, 26,000 DPI and five programmable buttons. It can be used wired or wireless and is open for pre-orders at about 80 dollars from GravaStar.com.

You can find us at Techstination.com. I’m Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Skyted is a company making some noise at CES…by enabling silent communication. It is a face mask with sound blocking technology …and a microphone…either wired or wireless. It let’s you have conversations on a plane for instance…without the person sitting next to you being able to hear what you are saying. The company is on Kickstarter now and has backing from the European Space Agency and Airbus…where CEO Stephane Hersen previously was a VP..

“I left my job with Airbus to created Skyted which is how to make a TED talk in the sky, that’s the origin of Skyted. It was how you can be able to make this interview on a flight from New York to L.A., at the same time nobody knows what I’m talking about. This is privacy we wanted to achieve.”

There’s more at www.Skyted.io and make sure to check out the demo in our full interview online.

You can find us at Techstination.com. I’m Fred Fishkin.

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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. What lies ahead for autonomous mobility this year? Princeton University Professor and faculty chair of autonomous vehicle engineering, Alain Kornhauser is the co-author of a new book titled, The Real Case for Driverless Mobility. Full disclosure, he is also my co-host on the Smart Driving Cars podcast. He says despite the turmoil that has followed the GM Cruise incident in San Francisco last fall..

“I’ll take a positive look on 2024. I’ll say the lessons learned in San Francisco are really stark and out there in everybody’s face. Look, we can do this but let’s focus on places where we should be doing it when we’re really providing some value.”

Providing safe, affordable driverless mobility in communities where the rides are really needed.

You can find us at Techstination.com. I’m Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. What lies ahead for autonomous mobility this year? Princeton University Professor and faculty chair of autonomous vehicle engineering, Alain Kornhauser is the co-author of a new book titled, The Real Case for Driverless Mobility. Full disclosure, he is also my co-host on the Smart Driving Cars podcast. He says despite the turmoil that has followed the GM Cruise incident in San Francisco last fall..

“I’ll take a positive look on 2024. I’ll say the lessons learned in San Francisco are really stark and out there in everybody’s face. Look, we can do this but let’s focus on places where we should be doing it when we’re really providing some value.”

Providing safe, affordable driverless mobility in communities where the rides are really needed.

You can find us at Techstination.com. I’m Fred Fishkin.

Targus has unveiled the latest in its EcoSmart line of computer peripherals, backpacks and bags, including the ErgoFlip ambidextrous mouse. The company's Andrew Corkill, Mike Sexton and David Dorantes chat with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.