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iHealth View – Readings At Your Wrist
Now that we’re older, we have a greater chance of having high blood pressure and need to treat it, or run an increased risk of stroke, heart attack, or other serious conditions. Besides exercise, a...
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet – Rising To The Surface
What Is It? – They’re called hybrid laptops – laptops that convert, in one way or another, to be used as tablets – and a tablet that can become a laptop by adding a keyboard, such as with an iPad....
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Dads & Grads 2016 – Part 1 – College Grads
Hooray! Junior is finally done with college. So what if it took an extra year, or two, or more. Your newly minted grad is on his or her way. It may be around the world, off to grad school, or just into...
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Smartwatches as Health Monitoring Tools
We all know about the market for health trackers, but in my case, the Apple Watch has become an indispensable health monitoring tool. I have been a type 2 diabetic for about 25 years and, until March...
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Dads & Grads – Part II – Gifts for the 50+ Dad
How cool is your Dad? Or if you are a Dad, how much of a hint do you need to give the kids about just how passionate you are about the latest tech gear? Either way, we’ve got some great gifts lined up...
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Apple iPad Pro 9.7″– The Mama Bear of Tablets
What Is It? – Remember Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Goldilocks found that it was Mama Bear’s chair that was just right. Well, I’ve come to think of the new Apple iPad Pro 9.7″ tablet as the Mama...
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US Transportation Sec’y – No Insurmountable Obstacles to Autonomous Car
United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx predicts self-driving cars will be on U.S. roads in a matter of a few years. Speaking at the Techonomy Conference in New York this week,...
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Dads & Grads 2016 – Part III – Gifts for the Super Senior Dad
Spoil your favorite Granddad this Father’s Day with one of these great tech gifts he’s sure to love. Assistive Listening System for Television – Hypersound Clear – Struggling to hear the television is...
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Zenfone Zoom – A Phone For Photogs
What Is It? – Do you think of your smartphone mostly as a phone? As a messaging device? As an app platform? Or maybe primarily as a camera? If you answered “camera,” then you might be interested in the...
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Puro Sound Labs is Out to Protect Our Ears
In recent weeks, we’ve told you about new efforts to diagnose and treat hearing loss and about new devices to improve your hearing, but up until now we have not focused on the other major issue...
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Dads & Grads 2016 – Part IV – Gifts for Sons Who Are Fathers Too
If you have a millennial son who is blessed with his own family, he could probably use a little fun in whatever spare time he can muster. Here are some Father’s Day gifts that should be particularly...
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Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Ultrabook – Good Thing In A Small Package
What Is It? – Computer makers have this problem: users want to be able to take their devices with them, but nobody wants to haul a 6 pound laptop around when they can instead take a tablet that’s under...
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M-Enabling Summit To Focus on Making Technology Accessible
There are few events that zero in on the concerns of the Tech50+ audience as well as this year’s M–Enabling Summit, taking place June 13 and 14th in Washington, DC. As technology becomes ever more...
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Dads & Grads Part V – Gifts For High School Grads
Whether it’s your son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter who is graduating from high school, it’s a big deal. Whether your grad is going on to college, taking a “Gap Year,” or perhaps just settling...
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Netgear’s Arlo – Beating DropCam
What is it? – One of the most popular security camera/monitoring packages currently in stores, Netgear’s Arlo has overtaken DropCam in terms of sales in the crowded camera space. Netgear is an...
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Wearables – The New Fabrics Of Our Lives
One of the hottest topics at the recently concluded M-Enabling Summit outside of Washington, DC was wearables – all of this great new technology that one way or another attaches to our bodies. The...
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Two Resources for Accessing Accessibility
At the recent M-Enabling Summit outside of Washington, D.C., I first learned about something called the Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative, or GARI. This is a project that was put together...
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SecuraTrac’s Long Lasting PERS
There are quite a few wearable products out there designed to help seniors get help in an emergency. And the concept goes back a long way! Who can forget those “I’ve fallen down and can’t get up”...
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Tired Of Taking Notes? This App Is For You
I’m never near my desk when an important call comes in and so I’m left to juggle my phone, trying to take notes after it’s too late. Well, fumbling around your settings when you’re trying to record...
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Is Solar Worth It if You’re Over 50?
by Courtni Wisenbaker-Scheel, Guest Contributor from Modernize You are hard-pressed to drive through a neighborhood nowadays and not see at least one roof covered in solar panels. In fact, across the...
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