Virtual Spring Break Vacation? Amazon Explore can take you there: Veena Crownholm chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Oura is a company that has taken a unique approach to sleep and activity tracking …  A comfortable, attractive ring with sensors…that needs charging every five days or so.  Clearly a winner.  It communicates with an app that gives you detailed sleep and heart rate information…and assesses your readiness for the day’s activities.  It also tracks your temperature…which has turned it into a tool used by the NBA and others…for preventing the spread of Covid-19.  CEO Harpreet Singh Rai…says a published study of wearers found..

Rai says there are plans to expand the capabilities of the Oura Ring and app in the months to come.  Pricing starts at about 300 dollars.  Find more at www.ouraring.com.

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

An app for table games music ambience: TableTop Tunes creator Anthony Sabatino in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.         Lenovo is at it again…with more computing innovations.   It has the new ThinkPad X1 Fold…the world’s first foldable PC.    Worldwide Category Leader for the Commercial Core Portfolio Carly Okerfelt…

“I can pull up to have my Web site on one side and my One Note on the other so that I can easily take notes.  I can also flip it so that it’s in laptop mode.   So one thing on the bottom, one thing on the top to be able to take notes or be able to do a video call.  And then if I want to open up like a tablet, I can in full size.”

There’s an optional keyboard and pen.  Impressive…fun…useful…and expensive.   The ThinkPad X1 Fold starts at about 25 hundred dollars.   You can find more info at www.lenovo.com.

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

Can a VR headset help to make you more physically and mentally fit?  The answer is yes according to a new study published by Dr. Alessandro Siani at the University of Portsmouth’s School of Biological Sciences in the U.K..   He joins Techstination's Fred Fishkin for a look.

The greatest artist of all time?  Music education in schools?  IBM's Watson partners with Recording Academy for Grammy Debates With Watson.   IBM's Kristi Kolski chats with  Techstination's Fred Fishkin

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  How do you look at the world?  Two Princeton professors …J. Richard Gott and Robert Vanderbei…along with Drexel Professor David Goldberg….have created a new type of flat map….double sided and disc shaped.  And it is designed to be much more accurate when it comes to such things as measuring distances.  Gott says think of it as an old vinyl record with two sides..

“And the equator goes around the edge.  So if you have two cities and you want to measure the distance between them, you just stretch a string between them or you stretch a string tight across the phonograph record on the other side.”

And the measurements would be accurate. The disc can show the Northern and Southern or Eastern and Western Hemispheres.  You’ll find a link to a printable version…and a video interview…on our Web site.

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

Printable map:  https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/AppendixFlatMapEarth.docx