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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  It was originally designed for parents to sanitize and dry baby bottles, pacifiers and such…but the market for Coral UV is growing.  It is a smartly built, easy to use, container that uses UV C lights….which these days can be useful for sanitizing face masks and gloves.  Co-founder Titus Tse says it is designed for safety…

“ We are FDA, we have EPA, we’ve gone through third party labs.  We take our testing seriously to prove to the consumer that we definitely kill germs and above all else we take all safety precautions.”

The UV C lamps …there are two…turn off automatically when the Coral UV is opened.  The p[rice…about 170 dollars.  Find more at www.coraluv.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   When it comes to in vehicle technology…Pioneer is out front again with its new line up of NEX receivers… with Amazon Alexa built in.  VP of Marketing Ted Cardenas…says the technology may be even more useful in the car than it is in the home…

“So as you’re driving you can simply ask Alexa to control the actual Pioneer radio…change sources…change from Bluetooth to radio or play specific music from Amazon Music or Pandora or TuneIn, even read you a book.  And then of course, what’s really cool is on my commute, that’s when I always think of things I need to add to our shopping list.”

And the voice commands will work when it comes to making calls as well.  You can learn more at www.pioneerelectronics.com/alexa.

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.  The Australian father and son team that created the Flow Hive….has been at it again…creating lots of buzz around a new line called Flow Hive 2.  CEO Cedar Anderson…says it improves on the original idea to be able to harvest honey by turning a spigot and disturbing bees as little as possible..

“From the ground up we put little legs so they’re adjustable so you can get your hive on a perfect angle..and then we’ve got a pest management tray that slides in and out to help people manage beetles and mites and things like that.  And then we went the next level with just the knobs and things by turning them into nice brass fixtures.”

There are added windows and locks too.  You can learn more about the latest in bee keeping tech at www.honeyflow.com. And they do ship to the U.S. and Canada.

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.  Midea has engineered a better room air conditioner designed to allow windows to be closed with the unit installed.  The Midea U is an inverter air conditioner.    Product Marketing Manager Rodrigo Texeira…

“The u shape makes it possible that the user has the window coming through the air conditioner so they can still see through the window…gets rid of those accordion side panels and also makes it possible for the user to open and close the window whenever necessary.”

It’s designed to be quiet too.  Very clever…and the Midea U can also connect to WiFI and be controlled through Google or Amazon smart speaker voice commands.  Pricing starts at 339 dollars for an 8 thousand BTU unit, they go up to 12 thousand BTUs.

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

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