Big week with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in full swing with twenty-two Minnesota companies in attendance showing their wares, one of which is a Burnsville company PetChatz, makers of a device for pets and owners to video chat. Question is, will your pet answer when you call? 😯
We cover other CES stories, and much more, on this week’s show.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off).
Music: Island Cafe by Twisterium under a Creative Commons License
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- TCMediaNow – Classic Minnesota news stories
- Imation is leaving Minnesota
- Best job markets for 2016, Twin Cities made the list
- Stories about Minnesota Companies at CES
- Holy tech, Batman! Check out the MN companies at CES
- Minnesota On The CES Floor
- Samsung is adding SmartThing hubs to its 2016 HD TVs to control connected devices
- Woof! Chat for pets among local tech at Vegas electronics show
- Minnesota at CES: Sleep-coaching beds, 3-D printed urns, filters to stop snoops and more
Minnesota Companies at CES
Other Top Tech Stories
- CES
- Presenting the Best of CES 2016 winners!
- The Verge’s CES Coverage
- BGR: The 12 most innovative things we saw at CES 2016
- WIRED: Best of CES 2016: Our Favorite Gadgets From This Year’s Show
- Fast Company: The 7 Best Ideas From CES 2016
- Kodak Goes Retro With New Super 8 Camera
- Ford is finally adding CarPlay and Android Auto to its cars
- Fitbit’s new wearable is a fitness watch called Blaze
- If I Had This Robot, Maybe My Editors Wouldn’t Have Sent Me to CES
- Apple
- Longer Tweets Said to Be Coming Soon to Twitter
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- TIP: Prepare for a high risk of ‘phishing‘ this tax season so you’re not ripped off. This week’s tip comes courtesy of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) regarding their warning to taxpayers: IRS and US-CERT Caution Users: Prepare for Heightened Phishing Risk This Tax Season
Cool Thing of the Week
- Tim: Polaroid Snap Camera with Zink
- Graeme: Apple AirPods
- Steve: Zolt Laptop Charger Plus: “Power your laptop, phone and tablet at the same time.”
Upcoming Events
- The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
- MinneAnalytics does Marketing Analytics – again! (MAMA2), January 22, Medtronic
- MinneWebCon U of MN McNamara Alumni Ctr April 25-26
- IoT Fuse, April 22nd, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis campus