Innovation in the anti-snoring battle: ZQuiet co-founder Dan Webster chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The folks at J M Smucker are having a bit of tongue in cheek fun….or maybe it is tongue on the roof of your mouth fun….with their Jif peanut butter brand.  With National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day at the start of this week…they attempted to put the lid on the debate over whether those animated images on the Web…spelled G I f s…are pronounced Gif or Jif.  The company’s Christine Hoffman..

“We created this limited run of collectible peanut butter jars.  It says Jif on one side and Gif on the other. There’s many, many people out there who are very passionate about Jif peanut butter and certainly passionate their stance about whether it’s hard G or soft. ”

They are selling for ten dollars on Amazon.  Clever way to spread the word.  The correct answer by the way is Gif.

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.  Temi…a personal robot company …that has telepresence capability and Amazon Alexa built in…in now working with a robotics company in South Korea…to bring robots into hospitals and medical facilities to help with the care of patients with the Coronavirus. Chief Marketing Officer Yaron Yoels says it can help patients who are quarantined communicate with loved ones and even deliver meals and other necessities…

“It allows family members to visit those in their homes or hospitals and for doctors to offer medical assistance through the robot.  And also they are adding sensors that can automatically check people’s fever and health condition.”

There’s much more to come.  Temi… sells for about two thousand dollars …and is available at www.robotemi.com.

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

WaveSense enables autonomous cars to see through snow covered roads & more.  CEO Tarik Bolat in Techstination interview.  

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  The days of filling out clip board forms in doctors’ offices and medical facilities may be numbered.  Clear Wave is now bringing its technology into hospitals with Clear Wave Connect…a tablet designed to collect the needed information securely and more efficiently.  CEO Mike Lamb says it streamlines the process for patients and practices..

“It takes that whole experience from a fifteen to twenty minute laborious exercise into a two or three minutes process which is much more pleasant.  And then on the practice side, it’s a much more efficient workflow.  We verify and validate eligibility which is a huge pain point.”

The system can work in 13 languages and there’s a mobile app for patients as well.  Find more at www.clearwaveinc.com.

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

Jif peanut butter aims to put lid on sticky Gif pronunciation debate.  Consumer Engagement Group Lead Christine Hoffman chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Michael Steep has a long and storied career working with many of the best known names in technology.  Today he is founder and executive director of Stanford University School of Engineering’s Disruptive Technology & Digital Cities Program…and the author of a new book titled First Light of Day.  It’s a cautionary work about AI and more blending fiction and non fiction…

“What I really wanted to do is find a mechanism that would allow people to see in the future what the impact of all this is to society and then be able to empathize with the characters who are dealing with it.  The second part of the book is a compendium, factual, of all the disruptive technology that is driving actually some of the assumptions in the book.”

Raising issues and provoking thought about decisions that are looming in our not too distant future.  First Light of Day …by Michael Steep.

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