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Acoustic Sheep's ASMR SleepPhones feature built in sounds for de-stressing.   Acoustic Sheep's Doug Blair chats with Techstination.

Signia's acoustic motion sensors bring new tech to hearing aids: Dr. Eric Branda in Techstination interview.

Older drivers looking for more safety technology: AARP-The Hartford survey.  AARP's Kyle Rakow and The Hartford's Jodi Olshevski in Techstination interview.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  GoKid is the name of an app that can be used for free to help parents, schools and sports teams organize car pools and ride sharing.  Founder and CEO Stefanie Lemcke started the company as a result of her own experience as a mom of two….trying to balance work with getting the kids back and forth to school and other activities.  And the GoKid app is winning lots of fans..

“You download the app from the app store and it helps us manage and schedule rides for children.  So it’s not an Uber for kids, it’s still the parents driving, but we set up a ride by simply inviting other parents.  We tell the app where our child is coming from and going to and what times we need the ride.”

The basic version is free….a premium version adds features like notifications and real time tracking.  For more head to www.gokid.mobi.

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

Tapplock grows line of fingerprint padlocks.  Tapplock's Gloria Lopez-Gil chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  This year, the folks at iRobot have great things in store for kids as well as their parents.  For the grown ups the Roomba i7+ robotic vacuum connects to an app for easy set up and control…making it easy to set up boundaries for cleaning.  It is powerful, quiet and can empty itself into the Clean Base…which stores about thirty loads of dirt in a bag….before it needs replacement.   Now that the floor is clean make way for  the Root  magnetic Coding Robot.  It teaches coding ….in a whimsical, fun way…as they program what Root draws.  And it can grow with them too...the company’s Daniella Bonazolli..

“Level one, ages four and up.  Level two, ages seven and up.  And Level three, ages twelve and up.”

Smartly done.  Find more at iRobot.com.

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

ShiftCam brings convenience to add-on iPhone lenses: GM Greg Appelhof chats with Techstination.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   LumiCharge is out with a universal charger desk lamp….that includes wireless charging, a rotating connector wheel for Lighting, USB C or Micro USB connections….a USB port …an LED clock and even a motion sensor nightlight.  It makes gift giving easy since it will work with any type of mobile device.  VP Balaji Raghunathan…

“So we get to charge three phones at one time and  the nice thing is not having wires running all over the place everything is consolidated into a neat little desk lamp.”

If you only need a versatile charging solution there is a Universal Phone Dock.  The solutions are smart and reasonably priced.  More innovation is on the way as well.  There’s more info at www.thelumicharge.com.

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.