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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. What’s Hidden Inside Planets is the name of a new book from Johns Hopkins University Press…and it is a fascinating look at what you could call the inner workings of planets and some interesting facts. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Sabine Stanley is the author. Her inspiration?

“I actually grew up in a giant crater. So a meteor impacted the surface of the earth 1.8 billion years ago in a town that’s now called Sudbury, Ontario, Canada… and created this giant hole which allowed a lot of natural metal resources to come up from the deep interior of the earth. So I was sort of in this environment that just screamed planetary science from a very young age.”

And she was listening. There’s lots of science here…but also some humor. The title again…What’s Hidden Inside Planets.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Can you really cut the cord…not just for TV but for Internet too? T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet is priced at just fifty dollars a month for unlimited data. The price is just 30 dollars a month if you are a T-Mobile Go5G Plus or Magenta Max phone subscriber. For many if not most households, it is more than adequate delivering download speeds of more than 200 megabits and around 15 up. The speeds can vary…but are usually pretty consistent wit the latest gateway, the Arcadyan G4AR. It features the ability to add external antennas. Service is available in a growing number of markets. The gateway is a combination modem and WiFi 6 router….but you can plug in your own …a mesh router for instance…as well. Find more at www.T-Mobile.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. NASA Rocket Scientist turned entrepreneur Aisha Bowe is continuing a remarkable journey that is scheduled to take her into space aboard a Blue Origin flight in the coming months. The Lingo STEM coding kits she has developed for kids 13 and up are still growing…

“So we start off with an introductory lesson and it’s called In the Driver’s Seat. And our focus is to have students build through a series of lessons, things that they’ve already interacted with, but they may not yet know how they work. And so we provide example code, we give you a hardware kit. We challenge you to put it together.”

Hands on building and coding….and there are new kit subscriptions as well for individual students and schools. Find more at www.stemlingo.com. And check out the full interview with Aisha on our site.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Worried about AI? You’re not alone. The annual trends and future report from Ford finds 68 percent of those surveyed believe AI will create massive job losses for others. Interestingly enough, a much lower 39 percent are worried that they will be replaced in their job by AI. Ford also found shifting priorities when it comes to work-life balance..

“Taking care of themselves. They are looking more towards themselves and cut out toxic relationships. One of the really interesting responses that we got this year was that more than half of the workforce, globally, would accept a twenty percent pay cut in order to get a better quality of life.”

Ford’s senior trends and futuring manager Miguel Mancilla. Find more info at www.fordtrends.com.

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

For more than twenty years, SCOTTeVEST has been making vests, jackets and more with pockets galore. The idea is to let you easily carry all of your tech wherever you go. The latest? CEO Scott Jordan chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. We have some more gift suggestions. For anyone who uses a computer…an external SSD drive is always useful and the folks at Kingston continue to innovate in the category. The XS1000 is remarkably small, features fast transfer speeds and the drives…from 500 megabytes up to 4 terabytes…are affordably priced. If you take lots of photos…and videos… the 2024 versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are out. They include new AI powered features, are easy and yet powerful to use and now there are updated mobile and Web apps as well. And for restoring faded photos or documents…one of our favorites continues to be Vivid-Pix software. Find them at www.vivid-pix.com.

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

BlendJet, maker of the original portable blender, is mixing it up with Venus Williams and Disney Princesses! The latest in the line in Fred Fishkin's chat with CEO Ryan Pamplin.

What makes AliveCor's Kardia Mobile devices unique when it comes to EKGs anywhere? Chief Marketing Officer Jessica Weinstein chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Protecting your digital files and more are what Acronis offers with Cyber Protect Home Office. It now includes identity protection too. All of the features? President Gaidar Magdanurov chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Sometimes the monthly search trends from Google can be pretty revealing. In November….the top search trends included some of what you would expect. Thanksgiving, recipes for pies, football, Black Friday deals and of course Taylor Swift. But also on the trends list was fatigue. Google’s Elizabeth Howard…

“We also so people searching for burnout. So what are the stages of burnout, academic burnout, relationship burnout. Why am I so tired after eating, which may have been a search after eating all that turkey on Thanksgiving. And why am I yawning when I’m not even tired.”

Which leads us to another trending search…..for coffee and coffeemakers. You can find more at www.google.com/trends. And don’t forget to check out our full interviews.

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