“Toys aren’t just for kids” is now more than just a tired truism within the toy industry. With an aging population combined with more advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, the so-called “kidult” and “elder toy” markets are slowly gaining prominence and importance both behind the product design and marketing scenes as well as on toy and consumer technology product shelves.
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During this first year that over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids became available, four major types of solutions for those with mild to moderate hearing loss have emerged:
However, a potential fifth class of “hearing aid” has recently emerged – standard Bluetooth earbuds that amplify ambient sounds, not just let sound through.
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John Quain and I join host Mark Vena as we tackle iPhone Pro 15 overheating reports, the anti-trust action against Amazon, “oversharing” of data with smart home devices, and Microsoft Copilot arriving in Windows 11.
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When CPG companies seek to hire new top marketing and technology talent, the most desired attribute is often experience. But the high number of senior executives opting for retirement during the Great Resignation means more lower-level executives moving up the ranks.
As a result, the influx of suddenly now-open lower-level positions could lead to employers turning to new grads to fill those open positions.
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In an apparent attempt to improve its competitive smart home ecosystem position against Amazon Alexa, Google, and Apple HomeKit, Samsung’s SmartThings is promoting its partnership with leading smart light platform Philips Hue.
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At an event held on the United Nations main New York City campus during its meeting of the General Assembly, CTA president & CEO Gary Shapiro announced the addition of technology as the eighth pillar in the year-old Human Security for All (HS4A) campaign. Existing HS4A security pillars are economic, environmental, food, health, political, personal, and community security.
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That headline is not a come-on. If you’re considering upgrading to a new iPhone, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all are offering a “free” iPhone 15 – if you qualify as the right kind of customer, have the right type of phone to trade in, and you choose an iPhone that costs less than $1,000.
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At today’s Apple event, Apple told us exactly who ought to upgrade to one of the new iPhone 15 models: creative professionals. Throughout its presentation of its new models – especially the now appropriately labeled 15 Pro models – Apple execs kept stressing, in highly technical language, how photography and film professionals would welcome the resolution, computational, zoom, and low light improvements these new models provide for still and/or video capture. Apple CEO Tim Cook himself proclaimed the 15 Pro models “the most pro iPhone we’ve ever created.”
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If you’ve been clinging to an older generation Apple Watch, Apple has imbued its new Series 9 models with five improvements that make it easy for you to justify an upgrade. One especially tempts me to upgrade even though I own an otherwise perfectly fine Series 8 model.
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The Audien Hearing’s Atom ($99.99) and Atom Pro ($249.00, currently $179.00 with coupon on Amazon) in-ear buds provide a cheap and easy solution for those who suffer only moderate volume-related hearing loss. The Atoms are simply sound amplifiers – there’s no Bluetooth for phone calls or music and no aural presets to compensate for specific ambient situations. On the other hand, because there’s no smartphone app, the Atoms are ridiculously simple to use for the tech-phobic – take ’em out of their case and slip ’em in your ears, and everything is suddenly louder.
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