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What the Tech? Gadget Gifts: Photo and Video Ideas

For many of us, this will be the first Christmas in ages where we haven’t been able to spend it with family. I started looking for some gift ideas that may help ease that pain a bit and keep the family close together during the holidays. I’ll bet you or someone in your family has a stack of old VHS…

What the Tech? Gadget Gifts: Robots for the Home

If you’re old enough to remember “The Jetsons”, you probably realize we’re leaving in a Jetsons era (except for the space-cars). Remember Rosie? The Jetson’s housekeeping robot? This Christmas lots of people are adding robots to their own homes. Robot vacuum cleaners have been popular for years but they’ve been priced too high for most people to buy one. Prices…

What the Tech? Gadget Gifts: Chess Set and Mirror

Say this about the pandemic of 2020, it created hundreds of options for Christmas gifts that we’d never have thought about before. For example, people have watched more TV. Netflix in particular has seen a rise in subscribers and those subscribers discovered shows like “Queen’s Gambit” which sparked a boom in the chess industry. If you haven’t seen it yet…

What the Tech? Gadget Gifts: Portable Projectors

When movie theaters closed due to the pandemic this past spring, many families began creating their own movie theater in their backyards. Digital projectors have come a long way in recent years and now it is possible to create a drive-in type atmosphere in the yard with a wireless projector and inexpensive movie screen. While there are many versions of…

What the Tech? See the Best Cooking Apps

This holiday season, whether you’re having people over (which is not recommended this year) or fixing just for your immediate family, these apps can help you find new recipes. For beginners, Project Foodie is an app to try. This app is from the talented professional chef Daniel Holzman. He assumes you know nothing or very little about how to create…

What the Tech? Find a Seasonal Job in the Pandemic

In a normal year, college students home for the holidays could find work in local restaurants, shops and stores. 2020 is no normal year of course, and many of those students will have a great deal of trouble finding any seasonal job opportunities. Only that’s not necessarily true. Seasonal jobs have gone online this year and the working remotely or…

What the Tech? The True Cost of TV Streaming Services

Bad news for cord-cutters who left cable or satellite to save money: costs for some of the more popular streaming services are going up. Netflix increased prices about two weeks ago. Hulu Plus Live TV jacked up the price by $10 a month a few days ago. And Google hiked the price of YouTube TV to $65 a month. Fubo…