No dealers needed.   Lower costs.  Car maintenance and repair comes to you.  That's what #NuBrakes founder and CEO Walker Drewett says the company delivers with plans to go nationwide.   Drewett chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Owl Labs is a company that has been bringing smart innovations to video conferencing to make remote connections feel more natural.  We’ve been impressed with the Meeting Owl Pro….a stylish cylinder that has a 360 degree camera…microphone and speaker…that can automatically zero in on whoever is speaking without distortion.  It works with many video conferencing platforms.  Now the company is out with the add on Whiteboard Owl…that makes sharing a whiteboard smarter …even making a person standing in front of it transparent.  CEO Frank Weishapt..

“It creates a much better experience for that remote participant because they are able to see all the details on that whiteboard and participate as though they are in the room.”

It does require a subscription in addition to the hardware.  You can see a demo and find more info at www.owllabs.com.

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

The #MakerX line from Worx brings innovation and remarkable versatility to cordless tools for making and crafting.    Such as?   The company's Meg Butterly chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Cooking can really get you in hot water.  In fact it should...says How to Sous Vide author Daniel Shumski.  And there are new gadgets that make it easier than ever.    Shumski joins Fred Fishkin for a Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   Uh oh….  Working from home could be a lot more challenging for the millions of fans of Zynga’s FarmVille.  The iconic mobile game is back with FarmVille 3…and the focus this time is on tending to the animals.  Sonja Angesleva is the product lead…who spent years with her team…bringing the game to life…

“Yeah…several years of work.  It was exciting…a bit scary as well as many in the core team have been developing games for quite some time.  So basically 12 years ago FarmVille was the idol or the icon we wanted to learn to develop or do something similar in the companies where we were working for.”

And the game…will continue to evolve and grow.  FarmVille 3 is out for iOS, Android and Mac M1 desktops.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  A feature packed 5G tablet at an affordable price.  Verizon is selling the TCL TAB Pro 5G for under four hundred dollars.  The 64 gigabytes of built in storage can be added to via a microSD card slot….and performance feels snappy with the tablet’s Snapdragon Octa-core chipset from Qualcomm.  There’s 10.3 inch HD display that uses what TCL calls NXTVISION to enhance the picture quality.  Another nice feature…the 8 thousand mAh battery can be used to boost phones or other devices through reverse charging in a pinch.  The 13 megapixel rear camera does a good job as well.  Not the caliber that you’d get with the latest iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy devices…but you wouldn’t expect that at the under four hundred dollar price.  Find more at www.tcl.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Whether it is Black Friday…Cyber Monday…or any day….a lot of us are being taken in by fake reviews when we buy online.  The problem is…when reading reviews on Amazon or other sites…how can you tell which reviews are legit.  An app and browser plug in called Fakespot can help.  It was founded by Saoud Khalifah after he was fooled ….and the free tool…can give you valuable warnings..

“The amount of fake reviews extrapolated online is just getting worse.  And that’s a worrying trend because people are starting not to trust the content they see online or they read online.  And whether it’s a comment, review, the up vote down vote that you’re seeing on a comment, all of that can be gamed and gamified by fraudsters.”

Again…the browser plug in and apps are free.  Find more at www.fakespot.com.

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

Techstination Week is a compilation of this week's Techstination reports with tech journalist and host Fred Fishkin.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  This month GM held its official opening for Factory ZERO….which will build all electric vehicles at what was once called the Detroit Hamtramck Assembly plant.  I spoke with Assistant Plant Director Cathy Staelgraeve…

“The people here at this plant who thought that their plant was going to close.  They had to go to other GM sites to work temporarily, and now we were able to call them back.  Many of those people are legacy GM employees.  So their parents or grandparents also worked for General Motors.  Myself, my dad and my grandfather both worked for General Motors.  This is taking what we’re used to and making it so much better with doing things we know we should have done all the time.  We know we should have a world with zero crashes if we can help support that.  A world with zero emissions and a world with zero congestion.”

Happy Thanksgiving.

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