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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Rosetta Stone…after more than a quarter of a century of helping customers to learn new languages…has continued to innovate.  The company has unveiled a new enterprise language training solution for companies around the world and like Rosetta Stone’s offerings for consumers…users can use just about any digital platform to learn.  What has impressed me is the serious, immersive approach.  Senior VP for product development and innovation Jerry Huang..

“Our goal is to get a learner into the language as soon as possible.  A lot of apps out there attempt to use a more gamified approach to language learning.  But we’re really serious.  We want to make sure that you’re immersed immediately and that you can use the language quickly.”

Rosetta Stone’s experience shows.  It is affordable…you can often find discounts…and you can even try it for free.

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.    Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant is turning five years old next month…and in many households…it is hard to imagine life without it.  It is constantly there for information, shopping, entertainment, home security and automation…even a surrogate storytime reader for the kids.  And Amazon’s ambitions for Alexa…don’t stop there.  Now come the Echo Buds…Alexa in your ear, Echo Frames for glasses that let you summon you know who with a built in microphone…and Echo Loop…a smart ring with a built in mic.  And there is more…including the new Amazon four in one Smart Oven..convection oven, microwave, air fryer and food warmer.  It features voice control through an included Echo Dot.  Our goose…is officially cooked.

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.  Misty Robotics is a company that was spun off from Sphero and has been building a robotic platform designed for free form programming.  Misty II is now on its way to crowd funding backers and CEO Tim Enwall says it is up to those customers to create apps…if you will…that will make Misty great.…

“The grand vision is robots everywhere and Fred if you look at 50 years of technology history, the dominant, disruptive platforms ..personal computers, the Web, game consoles, AR VR headsets and smartphones.. every single one of those has been propelled by software developers who made applications.”

There’s more info at www.mistyrobotics.com.  There’s much more to come.

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.  It has been a long time coming, but the first Arcimoto electric vehicles are arriving to customers in Oregon and California.  They are three wheelers,  two in the front, one in the rear, with two seats, can reach about 75 miles an hour and have a range of 102 miles on a charge.  About the construction, Founder and CEO Mark Frohnmayer says there’s an…

“Upper frame overhead.  Seats and seatbelts for both occupants, plenty of room for two big humans to sit and room for groceries.  It’s really designed around everyday driving, so the types of trips that we all take all the time.”

The price…about twenty thousand dollars.  Frohnmayer is hoping to bring that down considerably.  For now the company is focused on filling the more than four thousand vehicles that people have ordered already.

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

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