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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Whether it’s for a desk or a nightstand…LumiCharge has developed stylish LED lamps with built in charging solutions.  The base on the LumiCharge II or LumiCharge T2W…can charge Qi enabled devices wirelessly…but can also charge via wired connections.  Co-founder Balaji Raghunathan..

“The Qi charger is a ten watt fast wireless charger.  Each of the docks deliver five volt, two amps which is equivalent to ten watts of power as well…which is also at the fast charging rate.”

Very smart and useful.  The T2W also includes a 7 watt Bluetooth speaker.  Beyond that…the lights have an LCD display that shows the date, time and temperature.  Pricing starts at under one hundred dollars.   Find more on the features at www.thelumicharge.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   The founder of Last Gadget Standing….author, writer and entrepreneur Robin Raskin…is at it again.  She has created the VEG Group….  It has nothing to do with your diet….but everything to do with online event planning and production.  Work and school and events of all kinds have moved online during the pandemic…and the Virtual Events Group is there to help..

“It’s gotten to be an ecosystem that is so vast.  So we have all these assets on the Web site.  We have a monthly VEG meetup where we invite speakers to talk about how they pivoted their lives and what will stick and what won’t because everybody is now deciding what’s going to happen next year.”

Raskin believes there is little doubt that some changes…are here to stay.  The site again…is www.virtualeventsgroup.org.

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

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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  If you are looking around for deals on TV streaming services…T-Mobile’s TVision service and Hub… are worthy of consideration…and flexible.  For just ten dollars a month…you can sign up for strictly entertainment channels.  For forty dollars a month…you can add local channels, news and sports.  CBS…however…is not included.  The services are available to T-Mobile customers only at the moment.  You can watch on up to two devices at a time…and T-Mobile sells a Hub as well for fifty dollars.  Executive VP Dow Draper…

“A TVision Hub is great because you simply plug it into your TV and to a power source, connect to WiFi and you’re in.”

It also works on FireTV, Chromecast and Apple TV or mobile phones and tablets.  In our test…TVision performed well…and the Hub remote was well thought out.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The Tanoshi Scholar is a combination notebook and tablet designed for learning.  It’s a ruggedized machine…that runs the Android 10 operating system….and uses Android apps and features parental controls.  Some…designed for learning…are pre-installed…like Scratch Junior…to teach the basics of coding.  The company appeared on Shark Tank last year landing a deal with Daymond John.  CEO and Co-Founder Brad Johnston… …says Android has some working offline advantages over Chromebooks...

“Say you don’t have high speed Internet at home…you can go to school …wherever you need to be…MacDonald’s…you can download your homework, take it home, work on it offline…and then go back to the next time you can get a WiFi hotspot and upload it from there.”

It’s a solid feeling, smart machine.  The price…about three hundred dollars.  Find more at www.tanoshikidscomputers.com.

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