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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Who plays video games?  It turns out an awful lot of us.  The Entertainment Software Association has launched a campaign called Gaming Generation….but CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis says …that generation pretty much includes us all..

“There is a game for everyone and that’s what really fueled the expansion of our industry.  Right now there are just as many people playing video games who are over fifty as there are under eighteen.  The average age is thirty three and forty six percent of gamers are women.  So we really are a microcosm of our country and how it plays and works together.”

And the ESA says its survey found 73 percent of parents believe games are beneficial to educational development of their children.  My take…it really depends on the games being played.

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 author of the best seller Last Child in the Woods is back with another fascinating read… Our Wild Calling.  And while the focus is on the vital, sometimes unspoken connections between humans and a wide range of animals…Richard Louv doesn’t consider himself to be anti technology.  He advocates balance…including balancing the amount of money spent on education technology..and more.  Louv calls it a reciprocity principle..

“You know for every acre we take we ought to give back or preserve or create in a city a new acre for wild habitat.  If we do that, I think we’ll be okay.  And if we don’t, that nature’s going to disappear.”

Our Wild Calling is subtitled..How connecting with animals can transform our lives..and save theirs.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  GM has unveiled the 2021 edition of the Cadillac Escalade arriving later this year…and the design features a bundle of new technology.  There’s a curved OLED screen…designed to work with new cameras to deliver augmented reality navigation.  Cadillac Marketing Manager Bob Benbow..

“You can actually pull augmented reality navigation into that center cluster which will show you a view of the road ahead and will actually overlay navigation on the road to show you hey, turn here, turn here.  You can also pull the map, if you’re navigating, into that center cluster as well.”

Super Cruise driver assistance technology will also be available along with Night Vision and a Rear Camera Mirror.  And rear seat passengers can have their own 12.6 inch connected touch displays for entertainment.

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.  An app with artificial intelligence can assist with hearing.  Singular Hearing has developed an app called Heard That…currently in Beta…that is designed to work with the headphones and smartphone you already have.  And it is designed to help people hear better in noisy places.  Founder and CEO Bruce Sharpe…

“Say you’re going to a coffee shop with a friend and you sit down at your table, you take out your phone and start up our app and it listens to the surrounding, noisy sound and to what your friend is saying and using some sophisticated machine learning algorithms right on phone to tease apart what is noise and what is speech.”

It will be available on iOS and Android.  You can sign up for the Beta…at www.heardthatapp.com.

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