Google tracks hot holiday shopping trends: Google's Molly VandenBerg chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Some tech to help save on  precious kitchen counter space.  LifeSmart is out with a 10 in 1 Air Grill countertop cooking appliance that serves as an oven, toaster, dehydrator, air fryer, broiler, rotisserie and more…with touch controls and a remarkably small footprint.  The interface is intuitive…and the performance…impressive.  LifeSmart spokesman Jon Florell…

“The outside of the grill is stainless steel, but also the inside is stainless steel.  Double wall design to hold the heat in.  You can literally feel the outside of the machine when it’s on…there is no heat on the outside, it is cool to the touch.”

Very smart,  safe and versatile.  It ships with a unique bamboo grill grate as well.

There’s more info at www.lifesmartproducts.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  A canister vacuum that glides along like a hovercraft on a cushion of air.  That’s what Ed DiRenna…at American Vacuuum Innovations has created with the Zero G Vacuum.  It can use Silver Micron bags..

“Which are anti-microbial and anti-bacterial and anti-viral.  By test and by consumer actual usage, it out cleans virtually any other vacuum.”

We’ve been impressed with the cleaning capability and the coolness of that hovering.  No wheels.  About the Silver Micron bags…they were created by inventor Barry Schwartz…who is also using the technology in HVAC filters..

“And that media has the ability to destroy, germs, mold bacteria and viruses on contact.”

More important than ever.  Find more at www.zerogvac.com and www.silvermicron.com.

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

Thames And Kosmos garners 4 Toy of the Year nominations.   Marketing Coordinator Tom Wetzel chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Whether it is Cyber Monday….or any other shopping day this holiday season…the pandemic has changed the way we are buying things.  And for many retailers…it has meant some dramatic shifts…into areas of technology they perhaps hadn’t employed before.  Aki Duvvur is VP of IBM Public Cloud…

“I think retailers are adjusting their strategies across the board both in store and online to meet these consumer demands.  They’re taking advantage of technology to improve the end to end customer experience, whether it’s online or in person or a combination of both.  One thing is clear, the impact of Covid will alter the retailer strategies for years to come, right?  We think technology supply chain disruption overall, will force a lot more digitization.”

There’s more info…at www.ibm.com/cloud.

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

JumpStart Academy offers online learning & fun: Brand Manager Shannon Gale chats with Techstination.

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.   Toys that are fun…but give kids new learning experiences…are what a lot of parents are looking for this holiday season.  At VTech and the company’s Leap Frog brand…there are lots of toys that fit nicely into that category.  One favorite is the Magic Adventures Globe that has added high quality BBC videos…more than five hours worth in all…that are displayed on a screen at the base of the globe.  There are games and quizzes built in too.  Mr. Scribble’s Scribble and Write is designed to make learning to write numbers and letters more fun.  And for a platform that can grow with a child, it is hard to top the LeapStart Preschool Success interactive learning system.  It uses the ever growing LeapStart library.  And Vtech’s Paw Patrol Learning Watch is entertaining and fun too.  Check out www.VTechkids.com for more.

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

OK Play app creates family fun for kids & parents: Co-founder Travis Chen chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Kitche is the name of an app…introduced initially in the U.K…that aims to cut kitchen waste.  The plan is to bring it to the U.S. as well.  Co-founder and CEO Alex Vlassopulos says the app scans your supermarket receipts…reminds you to use the food before it goes bad…and even can provide you with recipes…

“And one of the reasons we created Kitche is I was in the park with friends and they were complaining about their food waste which I didn’t understand.  I cook at home for my family, I don’t waste food.  And they were saying we forget what we’ve got at home.  We go shopping and then we buy it again.  So this solves that problem because you have an on the go version of your kitchen in an app.”

It’s among the hottest apps in the U.K..  and we look forward to it coming here.  The site for more info is www.kitche.co. You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.