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 Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  You don’t have to break the bank to get great sounding and good looking wireless Bluetooth ear buds.  Helm Audio  is out with their True Wireless Earbuds…available in black or white.  They are oval shaped with a honeycomb surface…and don’t protrude the way the Apple Airpods do.  Helm Audio CEO Eric Johnson…

“What we’ve done is we’ve made a custom dynamic driver that allows us to get exceptional bass response and good frequency response along the frequency curve.  Number two part of this is that they do fit in your ear extremely well.  We’ve designed them to actually fit very snugly.”

Which provides better sound isolation.  The price?  Under a hundred dollars.  Find more at www.HelmAudio.com.

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

Many in Xfinity survey on moving say they need Internet more than water.  SVP Courtney Goldstein in Techstination interview.

 iRobot unveils most advanced robot vacuum and mop that can work together. Sr. Product Manager Brent Hild in Techstination interview. 

 Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Employees of Amazon who have been thinking about striking out on their own….are getting some help…from their current employer.  Amazon is offering to fund up to ten thousand dollars in start up costs…and provide three months pay…for employees to start their own package delivery businesses.  There is other training and help available too.  Amazon’s Amanda Ip…

“Amazon has a long history of creating programs that empower employees to pursue their career aspirations.  So we’re really excited to be offering this new career offering for our employees to take this next step in their career and build their own delivery business.”

So what is the motivation here?  With Amazon’s move to next day delivery for Prime members…the need for more delivery partners is greater than ever.  For more..head to www.logistics.amazon.com.

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

 Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Making a smart home a little less cloudy.  Hubitat Elevation is the name of a hub designed to control smart home gear…without the need for some other company’s cloud.  And that’s the key difference between this and its rivals.  A big deal if you are concerned about security.  The small box is designed for do it yourselfers according to Director of Business Development Patrick Stuart..

“Once you’ve got that installed, it allows you to connect to a wide variety of consumer available sensors and devices.  So both Zigbee and ZWave devices are very common out there.  Things like motion sensors, contact sensors…so you can tell if a door is open or closed.  All the way up to dimmers or switches and light bulbs.”

The Hubitat Elevation is impressive….with built in support for a wide range of smart home gadgets…and you can find it for about a hundred dollars.  For more head to Hubitat.com.

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

 Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   What should the future of self driving transportation look like?  Mobility for all was a key theme at Princeton University’s 3rd annual Smart Driving Car Summit.  Whether you are talking about blindness, autism, the elderly  or any other type of situation that impairs freedom of mobility,  autonomous transportation has the potential to open doors and the summit gave organizations and individuals a chance to experience it first hand.  Local Motors demonstrated the self driving Olli shuttle for instance.  Anil Lewis is Executive Director of Blindness Initiatives at the National Federation of the Blind…

“We want to be able to access transportation just as dynamically as someone that is sighted.  And the technology is evolving to a place where that is going to be possible in the very near future.”

Stay tuned.  There’s much more to come.

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.  Thinkware is the leading dashcam maker in tech hungry South Korea…and the company is making inroads in the U.S. as well with full featured cameras can make driving safer…and sometimes even more fun.  Director of North American business development Brian Yang says the latest, the Q800 Pro has arrived in Best Buy stores.  The camera is QHD quality using a Sony sensor.  It uses either your smartphone or a hotspot to connect online..

“Once it is connected to a hotspot, Thinkware Cloud service becomes active.”

Which supports geofencing and soon…live streaming…if you choose.  The camera features lane departure and front collision warnings as well.  Thinkware’s dashcams have proven to be reliable and produce impressive video quality.

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

 SkyTrak brings high tech analysis home for golfers: Pres. Don Thorup chats with Techstination.

 Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.    If your shopping for dads and grads…who happen to be runners….Garmin has just updated the line of Forerunner watches…that combine great features with traditional watch styling.   Product Manager Joe Heikes says there are five new models in all that are really a step up from typical fitness watches.  All have the ability to summon help through the incident detection feature..

“You know if you have a bicycle crash or God forbid you collapse when you’re running…that sort of thing.. it will start a countdown, and if you don’t cancel it, it will then connect to your smart phone and send a message to emergency contacts that you have identified in advance.”

With the message including GPS coordinates.  Potentially life saving.  For more on the line..head to Garmin.com.

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