Improving sound for more creators & performers online: Ultimate Ears Pro VP Philippe Depallens chats with Techstination.

iGrill creator Chris Allen now CEO of iCleanse for UV-C disinfecting.  Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The Canadian computing company Xanadu has launched the first photonic Quantum computing platform in the cloud.  Quantum computers utilize what are called qubits instead of bits to perform computations beyond what traditional computers are capable of.  And Xanadu has created an open source software library called PennyLane…to take advantage of that computing power.  Founder and CEO Christian Weedbrook..

“Kind of think of it as an app store, but you can download all these different types of apps.  Now it’s a very early part of the industry.  This is going to be transformative.  It’s going to affect finance, it’s going to affect pharma.  It’s going to affect all sorts of industries.”

And the photonic approach to quantum computing uses light based chips.  Stay tuned.  There’s more at www.xanadu.ai.

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

Chipolo One Ocean Edition made from fishing net waste: CMO Nika Kramzar chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  When a Broadway theatrical sound designer takes on the mission of creating a better microphone for all of us using Zoom, creating online videos and more…what you get is Hooke Audio.  And the latest created by Anthony Mattana…the founder…is the Hooke Lav.  It’s on Kickstarter now…and features versatility, style…and works using a unique Bluetooth codec to produce great sound without dropouts…

“Not to get technical with just saying it records pro grade sound, it’s able to capture 24 bit 48k wav files over Bluetooth to mobile devices and computers at almost no latency. ”

There’s even more versatility when two of the Hooke Lavs are used together.  For more info…check out www.hookeaudio.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.     Samsung is playing the part of the gambler…and knows when to fold ‘em…    It is betting that there will be enough buyers with two thousand dollars to spare to make the new Galaxy Z Fold 2 mobile device a success.    It is heavier and thicker, of course, than a traditional phone…but what you get is an exterior screen….and it unfolds to a really big, 7.6 inch screen on the inside….for work or play.   Sr. Product Manager Caleb Slavin…

“When it’s folded it’s great for responding to text messages or just making phone calls and accessing information on the go.  And then when you’re ready to kind of kick back and enjoy a movie or video chatting, you can unfold it for more of a tablet like experience.”

Samsung is throwing in lots of add ons for that two thousand dollar price …adding to the luxury experience.

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.  The Covid virus pandemic has driven tremendous growth in telemedicine.  But that has underscored the need for more universal high speed Internet access.  On a recent episode of the Living Longer, Better Smarter podcast, which I co-host with Mary Furlong…the managing director of the healthcare practice at Ziegler, Grant Chamberlain, told us…

“Broadband has to become a fundamental right in this country.  The benefit of the Department of Education, the Department of Health saying we’ve got to find a way to ensure that we don’t have these gaps and these barriers so that we do have equality.  Both in the most underserved population..because honestly there is as much of an issue on the south side of Chicago as there is in Montana.”

Chamberlain serves on the board of the American Telemedicine Association…which is a good place to turn for more info.

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

Visybl's SafeTeam social distancing wristband: Co-founder Arun Nadun in Techstination interview.