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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   Telemedicine isn’t new, but this is.  A start up called Zipnostic is looking to transform medical housecalls.  It has created a kit that gets brought to a home by a technician….that enables a physician to remotely perform an exam via telemedicine.  They have begun trials in New York City and founder Dr. Gene Ukrainsky says the kit uses a secure connection to the doctor and…

“We’re able to take all the vitals.  Temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, actually pulse asymmetry.  We also have a proprietary digital camera that allows us general intra-oral, ear and eye examination.  Also dermatologic examination.”

EKGs can be performed as well.  There are plans to expand availability…and you can find more info at www.Zipnostic.com.

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   A new study from General Motors and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has found that safety systems like automatic emergency braking and land departure warnings have been preventing many crashes.  That means preventing deaths and injuries as well.  It found, for instance, that the use of forward automatic emergency braking combined with forward collision alert cut rear end striking collisions by 46 percent.  GM Safety Technical Fellow Raymond Kiefer…

“For reverse automatic braking we found a very significant reduction in backing crashes, 81 percent.  So the vast majority of those crashes are being avoided with this feature.”

And as the technology improves, so will the results.  And in many cases, there is a need for more consumer education …to teach us what the technology can and can’t do.  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.  Higher Ground is a company that is making communication from anywhere…more affordable.  The company’s SatPaq gives you the ability to send and receive text messages through your mobile device when there is no cell phone service available…as long as you have an open view of the sky.  And service costs as little as 55 dollars a year for 150 messages.   Testing while hiking in a remote mountain area made me a believer in the 249 dollar SatPaq.  The messages include your GPS coordinates in the event of emergencies and the app provides weather and medical information as well.  President and Founder Rob Reis…

“You buy messages…you don’t pay by the month.  So it’s there when you need it and that’s what you want for safety.”

And Reis says there are more capabilities to come.  Find more at www.SatPaq.com

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.  Asus is continuing to innovate in lots of areas.  We’ve been taking a look at one…ScreenPad 2.0 on the latest VivoBook S15,  an elegant notebook popular with students that thankfully features four USB ports along with a micro SD card reader and an HDMI port.  What the ScreenPad adds is lots of flexibility …essentially acting as an on demand roughly 5 and half inch second screen.   You can toggle between traditional touch pad functionality.   Impressive.  Also new this year is the Zen Book Pro Duo with ScreenPad Plus…that extends that second screen across the full width of the notebook…in 4K resolution…

“It adds more room for creativity.  You can use a touch pen.”

Randall Grilli of Asus.  You can learn more at Asus.com.

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