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Hands-on tech demos from the product floor.
Geek News Central Special Media Feed tracks consumer tech where it meets real use: flashlights, power products, headphones, hubs, wearables, smart-home gear, storage, and coding robots. The tone is direct, curious, and product-focused, with specs, pricing, packaging, and everyday usefulness close to the surface.
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Geek News Central Special Media Feed covers technology through the products themselves. The emphasis is hands-on, practical, and close to the device. A typical segment starts with a gadget, then moves through use cases, ports, batteries, sensors, packaging, accessories, availability, and price. It is not a broad punditry show. It behaves more like a rolling demo table for consumer tech and event-floor discoveries. One episode treats the Fenix LD30 flashlight as more than a simple light, focusing on lumen output, multiple brightness settings, strobe and SOS modes, charging, power indicators, waterproofing, and outdoor durability. Another compares MyCharge power products by capacity, wireless charging, USB-C output, laptop support, and everyday mobile pressure. The headphones coverage puts travel, fit, folding size, noise cancellation, play time, and included airline accessories ahead of vague audio talk. MacBook hub segments are similarly concrete, covering USB 3.0, SD and microSD, LAN, VGA, HDMI, USB-C, Thunderbolt, cables, and plug-and-play setup. The event interviews widen the frame. At the Wearable Technology Show, Oura discusses sleep stages, heart-rate tracking, deep sleep, REM sleep, biosignals, caffeine sensitivity, and ring design. At CES 2018, Skylink explains a retrofit path for older garage openers, smartphone control, wireless sensors, range, lighting, and smart-home compatibility. SecureDrive brings encrypted storage into view through keypad access, Bluetooth authentication, antivirus scanning, capacity, and FIPS testing. Root Robotics presents a coding robot meant to introduce programming through a block-based app, Bluetooth control, sensors, actuators, and a pre-production product path. The show’s value is its steady attention to how technology is actually handled. It asks what comes in the box, how it connects, what it costs, where it ships, and whether the feature list solves a real inconvenience. The result is a useful feed for gadget-minded listeners who prefer concrete product coverage over trend commentary.
Made for: For gadget watchers, early adopters, and practical buyers who want concrete product details before chasing reviews or spec sheets. It especially suits listeners interested in CES-style coverage, mobile accessories, smart-home devices, wearables, storage, and everyday tech tools.
What sets it apart: The feed keeps close to the product: ports, batteries, packaging, setup, pricing, and real-world use are treated as the story. Its mix of studio demos and event-floor conversations gives products room to explain themselves without losing practical scrutiny.
Special media Feed of events like CES, NAB and host of other tantalizing tech events. A podcast pioneer one of the first 100 podcasters and Author of Podcasting The Do it Yourself Guide.
A CES booth becomes your gadget interrogation room, with Don Bain asking what the shiny thing actually does.
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A glasses-free projection screen that lets two people watch different content on the same surface.
The segment centers on MirraViz's multi-view projection screen, a setup that lets two people watch different content on the same surface at the same time without glasses.
A CES pitch for a glasses-free screen that puts two views on one surface.
Miravis gets a brisk CES 2018 spotlight for a multi-view projection screen that lets two people watch different video on the same surface at the same time, without glasses.
BrainCo's CES demo turns focus into a customized brain-training pitch with a smart-home angle.
At CES 2018, the segment keeps its attention on BrainCo as the host goes live from the Sands Expo and the demo circles a headband, a balloon, and responses that differ from person to person. The Somerville, Mass.
Tech hype, tested against real life.
Media strategy for obsessive entertainment watchers.
Mobile tech talk with working context.
Practical PC talk with hands-on judgment.
Apple apps, games, and services with sharp caveats.
Host interviews Kodak representative about their PixPro cameras at CES 2018.
A podcast host interviews Sergey from Secure Data Inc about their line of hardware-encrypted storage devices at CES 2018.
Interview with Blaze Automation at CES 2018 demonstrating their B1 Hub multi-protocol smart home gateway.
Don Bain talks with BrainCo's Max Newland at CES 2018 about a headband that measures EEG signals and turns them into neurofeedback.
MirraViz's CES 2018 demo centers on a multi-view projection screen that can show different content to different viewers on the same couch.
An interview at the Wearable Technology Show with Mario from Oura about the second-generation Oura smart ring, focusing on its sleep and health tracking capabilities.
Interview with SkyLink's national sales manager about their new Nova smart garage opener at CES 2018.
Interview at CES 2018 with Sergey from Secure Data Inc about their line of hardware-encrypted secure drives.
At CES 2018, the host interviews the founder of Root Robotics about their coding robot for all ages.
At CES 2018, Joe Santos presents Smart Bees' WooHoo, an Android-based device that combines a display, speaker, smart-home hub, and 360-degree camera.
Kingston's encrypted USB drives erase themselves after 10 incorrect password attempts.
At CES 2018, Paul presents Invisbox devices that automatically route Wi-Fi traffic through encrypted VPN connections without usernames, passwords, or software installation.
Geek News Central Special Media Feed covers Miraviz's CES 2018 multi-view projection screen, which lets different viewers watch different content on the same display without glasses.