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“And then you can go from 1920s up to modern day talking about these different examples and story points that resonate within this overall concept of the sound and music of Disney.  It’s just lovely to see those connections across the decades.”

Find more at www.disneybooks.com. 

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.    GoodTrust is a site and service designed to help you plan for the future with new tools for online estate planning that are comprehensive and affordable.  And the planning includes what happens to your digital content and accounts as well.    Co-founder Daniel Sieberg says the estate planning features at www.mygoodtrust.com now include the ability to set up a revocable trust..

“We created an experience for people that you could do all of your estate planning documents in I’m going to say less than 20 or 30 minutes.  Now of course that requires some amount of getting organized beforehand.  Then you sit down, create it all, we make it possible to print them off, to get them signed or notarized depending on what the document is.”

And then you upload back into your online digital vault.   Pricing is a very reasonable 149 dollars.    Find more at www.mygoodtrust.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.        We tend to like competition, but in the case of the planned acquisition of Mint Mobile by T-Mobile for 1.35 billion dollars, the news may be positive.   In announcing the deal…in a video skit with Mint’s actor-owner Ryan Reynolds…T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said customers will still continue on with plans starting for as low as 15 dollars a month…

“Well Ryan, we are so happy to have you and the whole Mint team join the T-Mobile family.”  “Ha.  Well I wouldn’t call it a family, Mike.  No, family is a place for misdirected hopes and dreams.  I’m hoping this will be much better than that.”

The plan is for Reynolds to stay on in his creative capacity for Mint.  And with the acquisition his hope is the low priced operator…which has been using T-Mobile’s network all along…will be able to serve many more customers.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   So GM has announced that its Ultra Cruise hands free driving technology will be coming first to the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq…which will carry a three hundred thousand dollar price tag.  Eventually…it will become available on other GM vehicles…in the way that Super Cruise has migrated.  And the system will eventually be capable of hands free driving in 95 percent of situations according to GM.  Assistant Chief Engineer Tony Kraatz..

“We’re going to increase the capability over time as we deploy.  You plug in your route and Ultra Cruise will hands free navigate those roads, make the turns, get to your destination hands free, get on and off the highway.”

A driver monitoring system will be used to ensure the person behind the wheel…even if his or her hands aren’t on it…is paying attention.

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

Making cheese from toe and belly button bacteria? That's Fact-tastic, a new title from National Geographic Kids is chock full of the weird and wonderful.  More?  Assistant Editor Emily Fego chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Oura Ring adds new sleep tracking data including body clock.   How can it help?  Science Communications Lead Caroline Kryder chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.