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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.   So for our first Techstination of the New Year…a little entertainment…a song about AI…written and performed by the Suno plug-in for Microsoft CoPilot….

“[Verse] In a world of wires and machine hearts Where AI sings with a soulful art. We embrace the future, oh so bright .. [Chorus] Oh, the songs of tomorrow, they will guide us on With wisdom and insight, till the break of dawn We'll soar through the skies…

And AI is just getting started.    Happy New Year!   

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. What better time than just before the start of a new year to talk about some fitness tech. France will have a big delegation at CES in Las Vegas in January. Among the companies is AI Bright, which has developed AIMoov, an on demand digital personal trainer. CEO Ouael Mouelhi…who had worked in AI and imaging…says the system works with a camera and an app…

“You can see your virtual coach. They encourage you, guide you.”

Find more at Ai-Bright.com. Meanwhile OCHY AI…is showing off a running form analysis app. CEO Khaldon Evans..

“You take a video of you running and within sixty seconds we have a full body analysis.”

The site for more is www.ochy.io

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. AI will be everywhere at the 2024 CES coming up next month in Las Vegas. The world’s biggest gathering in consumer electronics will be attracting companies from all over the globe and at the Consumer Technology Association, futurist Brian Comiskey tells us the innovations are pretty mind blowing..

“Chatbots, Mom.AI will be bringing a digital human avatar that has a chatbot feature that can interact organically using some of those large language models in generative AI to be more creative in terms of helping individuals. Digital Twins technology is another AI application that will be on the show floor and Siemens is going to showcase their industrial metaverse.”

And robotics with AI will be on hand as well. You can learn more at www.ces.tech.

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

The Future of Women's Digital Health Solutions is the title of a new report from the Consumer Technology Association. How can technology be used to close the gaps. The CTA's Health Government Affairs lead Catherine Pugh chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        One of my favorite apps of the year….one that I discovered through a posting by a friend…the photographer, author and educator Rick Sammon.   It’s called Merlin…from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where Alli Smith is the project coordinator.   You can look up birds by description…but what are really cool are the other tools in the Merlin app…

“So photo ID you just take a picture of the bird and it will tell you what it is and sound ID is exactly what it sounds like.  You just go outside and be quiet and open up the app on your phone and turn on the microphone and it will listen to the birds that are around you and identify what it hears.”

Lots of fun for all ages….and it is free.   Find Merlin for both Apple and Android.   And if you enjoy birds…also check out the latest camera feeders at www.birdbuddy.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Wrapping up another year….Google is out with the top search trends of 2023. In the news category….hurricanes took three of the top five positions….but number one was the war in Israel and Gaza. For movies…no surprise Barbie and Oppenheimer were on top. In the people category… Damar Hamlin, Jeremy Renner and Travis Kelce were one, two and three….but Google’s Sarah Armstrong points out that Taylor Swift wasn’t exactly missing…it has more to do with the methodology…

“So we’re looking at those trends that had the biggest increase from 2022 to 2023 and Taylor Swift is always trending. She actually hit an all time high last year and then beat her own record this year. So folks are definitely searching for her.”

Most searched for recipes included Grimace Shake, lasagna soup and chicken cobbler.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Even at the very last minute…like today….you can find some great online gifts. And with families gathered the idea of gifting a membership to Ancestry.com can be a great idea. I’ve been able to trace roots back to the 15 hundreds and share with family members. Ancestry corporate genealogist Crista Cowan …says family gatherings are the perfect time to explore your roots..

“It’s just kind of a natural time when you’re together and when you’re kind of immersed in that, those holiday traditions, if you will. But our thoughts and our conversations turn to our parents, our grandparents, great grandparents. The stories of holidays past. It’s a perfect time for that.”

A membership gift is great….but you can also get started for free at www.ancestry.com.

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

Webasto has partnered with a range of automakers and more to bring EV charging solutions to consumers. The Webasto Go is portable and versatile. Webasto Charging Solutions' Christina Di Sano outlines the features in this chat with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Fore more than two decades SCOTTeVEST has been designing vests, jackets and lots of other garments designed to help you carry your digital devices with ease. The latest are the Best Travel Vests for men and women. Co-founder and CEO Scott Jordan…

“The Best Travel Vest, it’s for men and women and it’s a variety of different colors and color accents and great new fabric and it’s just better than anything we’ve done before. It’s got a multitude, more than twenty pockets. The pockets are all designed to be free hanging so you can’t see the bulges, it distributes the weight equally.”

There’s an RFID protect pocket. We can also tell you the vests are designed to be durable. Find more at www.SCOTTeVEST.com. And you can find our full interview online.

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

With Momentum Technology's Call From Work, you can use your work number for outgoing calls from anywhere. How? CEO Amanda Pietrocola and Dir. of Engineering Jim Caldwell chat with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.