Musings of an Alleged Consumer Expert
The best and worst products, services, customer support, retail experiences and vacations so far this year. By Richard Sherwin Let’s just say I was wrong about Acer. For a few years, I have been touting Acer’s computers and tablets as the best buy among a shrinking crowd of tech manufacturers. I’ve changed my mind. […]
The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show Day Three
No Doctors Needed with CES Tech By Stewart Wolpin Las Vegas, Nevada: Here in the 21th century, it’s not an apple but technology that can keep the doctor away. At CES this week, several new gadgets debuted that will help you avoid expensive doctor visits. And the long-awaited marriage between consumer technology, medical technology […]
The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show Day Two
Portable Power Vexing Issue for New Products By Stewart Wolpin Las Vegas, Nevada–Arguably the greatest problem in technology advancement is portable power. We are continually changing or recharging batteries, or frantically searching for an AC outlet. Five companies at CES are demonstrating a solution to this vexing problem: long-distance power transmission, AKA far field […]
The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show Day One
The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show Day One By Stewart Wolpin, and the staff at Digital Family Advisor https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9pg5lct9c2tbnv/SHER%20LG%20rollup%204K.MOV?dl=0 (watch this amazing video) Las Vegas Nevada: In perhaps the most startling TV introduction at CES LG unveiled a roll-up TV that silently and rigidly rises from a small 10-inch tall-and-deep speaker box, then recedes back into the […]
Prepare to pay more taxes in 2019
Prepare to pay more taxes in 2019 By Bob Plunkett The income tax landscape has changed in the US thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which was passed last year (2017). And the new law is going to impact nearly every income tax payer when they file their 1040 in the spring […]
Consumer Tech January
Consumer Tech January Here Comes 5G BY RICHARD M. SHERWIN (this was transcribed from Richard’s last lecture) Most of you in this esteemed audience realize that by the time this lecture ends a few friends or relatives of yours in North America will have a wireless connection to their TVs, Mobile Phones, Tablets and computers […]
For the Love of Chloe
For the Love of Chloe By Bob Decker (A version of this story was first presented in The Citizen newspaper in September of 2002 as part of a full page of photos featuring a rabies clinic in Denville, N.J. The last of our three rescue puppies had just passed away and this one hit […]
December Consumer Tech and Annual Holiday Gift Guide
The Consumer Tech and more… Annual Holiday Gift Guide Digital Family Advisor’s Web Partner www.tech50plus.com and DFA serve up its annual gift guide and here are highlights from it. Courtesy of Gary Kaye, Jason D’Aprile, with Ted Mayo, Marc Burstein, Arlene Rosenberg, Bob Plunkett and Richard M. Sherwin It’s that wonderful time of the […]
Advice on the best and hottest Smartwatches and activity bands
Watch This: for advice on the best and hottest Smartwatches and activity bands By Richard M. Sherwin, Jennifer Auspitz, Bob Plunkett, Marc Burstein, Arlene Rosenberg, Ted Mayo, and Susan Davis We realize that Apple and Samsung have pretty much owned the SmartWatch category with their inescapable ads and ubiquitous attachments to their category leading mobile phones and tablets. But a […]