Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  What sells new smartphones today?  More often than not, it is the camera capabilities.  The top phones…have features that make them a great choice even for serious photographers.  For instance, Rick Sammon…who shoots with some of the best cameras you can buy and has written dozens of books on photography…has formed a Facebook group called Explorers of Life…just for smartphone imagery.  Rick’s wife, Susan, convinced him just how amazing images taken with the latest iPhones can be…

“You know we have a zest for life.  That’s what the Explorers of Life is all about.  It’s celebrating our lives with smartphone photos and videos.  Nighttime…because the cameras in the iPhone do such a good job of handling noise, we can take beautiful nighttime pictures.”

Check out the video of our full interview.  And you can learn more at www.RickSammon.com.

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Envision delivers new options in smart glasses for vision assistance.   How do they work?  Chief Technology Officer Karthik Kannan chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

New leather cases for AirPods Pro, aluminum bands for Apple Watch and a new High Volta color are arriving from Nomad.   What sets them apart?  Nomad's Chuck Melber chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Ring's Car Cam is on the way.   So what can it do?  Product Specialist Neil Cayabyab shows us in this Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Ukraine based Skylum Software has found a way to continue innovating through all of the horrors over the last year.  CEO Ivan Kutanin says staffers are continuing to work from inside and outside of Ukraine.  The product …Luminar NEO, puts powerful AI photo editing tools into the hands of everyone….and is amazingly easy to use.  For instance, have an image with a dull sky?  It is simple to change it..

“So you can easily replace a sky with one click.  But it’s not just sky replacement.  It’s fully using your image to make it look good with accurate temperature, with accurate light, when your sky is changing.”

And there’s much more to Luminar Neo…  Find more at www.skylum.com.

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

For true coffee lovers, Bunafr aims to up what's in your cup.  The Bunafr home coffee roaster will use an app and scanner to deliver the freshest roast possible.  Founder Anjani Annumalla chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Lutron is offering more choices in the Diva Dimmer and Claro Smart Switch line.  How easy?  How reliable?   Product manager Adam Mack chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  When it comes to getting kids excited about science, tech and math…we are all in…and a new book from National Geographic Kids titled One Thousand Facts About Space is bound to accomplish that and more.  The author is Dean Regas, astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory…who has laid out the book to allow you flip to any page and find something interesting.  Like what?  Like the likelihood of diamonds in the clouds above Jupiter..

“It’s theorized but likely that that’s what’s happening because Jupiter is all gases.  So it’s hydrogen and a little bit of helium and what’s going on in the atmosphere is this various pressure is happening.  But it’s not like you can go up there with a bag and just scoop up a bunch of diamonds to take home with you.  It’s not quite as easy as that.”

The book again….1000 Facts About Space from National Geographic Kids.

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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Electric vehicles that are capable of bi-directional charging…may help to solve one of the biggest issues in the adoption of the technology.  How will the electric grid be able to keep up.  At Emporia Energy, which makes EV chargers and other technology to monitor and help save energy…CEO Shawn McLaughlin says the arrival of new battery technology in cars in the next couple of years…combined with bi-drectional charging will help the grid…and consumers making use of the company’s smart technology…

“When you plug in a bi-directional charger, there’s markets with time of use pricing where we think we’ll be able to save closer to fifty percent off your energy bill.  Literally leveraging that car battery sitting in your garage will lower your electricity spend by fifty percent.”

There’s much more to come.  Find more at www.emporiaenergy.com.

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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  This year should be pretty significant in the world of smart glasses and augmented reality.  We’ll likely be seeing some familiar names introducing new products.  And Vuzix…which has been a pioneer developing the technology for the military and a wide range of commercial applilcations has unveiled new designs using its Ultra Light platform.  CEO Paul Travers..

“They fit, literally, this is a conventional eyeglass case.  You can see they just fit in like a normal pair of  regular glasses.  They have built in displays and optics engines in the top corners here.  And they have a Bluetooth connection and battery that ties the glasses to the phone.”

For whatever messaging or data that it is needed.  The new designs are fashion forward….and make the technology nearly invisible.  Find more at www.Vuzix.com.

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