Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by guest panelist Sven Johannsen to (mostly) discuss Apple's disaster themed September 8 announcements: iPhone 14/14 Pro, Apple Watch, AirPods Air gen 2.

We also briefly discuss the Linus Tech Tips backpack for techies that Jon recently received.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Fitbit Sense 2 electrodermal activity (EDA) stress indicatdor
• iPadOS 16 delayed
• Apple Watch 8 rumors
• Jon asks AI bots questions
• Coca Cola Dreamworld???

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by guest panelist Sven Johannsen. They discuss: Google Pixel Buds Pro; hating the new Google News UI; iPadOS 16 windowing; dev choices rant

Todd Ogasawara, Dr. Jon Westfall (a university professor), and Don Sorcinelli (father of a incoming college freshman) discuss back to school technology.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Revisiting the STADOR K23 Bluetooth wireless earbuds as a podcasting microphone
• Fedora Linux will work on Raspberry Pi 4
• Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5
• Linus Tech Tips Backpack
• Disconnected in a connected world

This week I'm joined by long-time friend Sterling Yee who, as a member of the American Lung Association national board, had a meeting at and a tour of the Tesla factory in Fremont, CA. Sterling describes his impressions and experiences from that visit in this podcast.

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss

• 295 Macs and PCs certified to run Google's ChromeOS Flex
• Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays (shocking! :-)

• Amazon Recycling Program Recycle small consumer electronics for free

• The subscription-izaton of iPhone/iPad apps

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss

- The new Netflix immersive audio feature. This is different from Apple's Spatial Audio

- The dumbing of UI/UX design

In remembrance of Jon's Mom.

Todd got a Blue Yeti Nano to replace the full-size Blue Yeti he has been using for years to record podcasts.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss Apple WWDC announcements that interested them the most (and ignore the rest :-).

The most interesting new iPadOS 16 features require and M1 powered iPad.

Jon is looking forward to the new lock screen customizations.

This is the first of special podcasts focusing on techies from or in Hawaii.

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara is joined by old friend Robert Lee who recently left a giant tech firm to work for a start-up: Stow Energy. It aims to provide smart heat pump systems. Robert also discusses a pair of gadgets that he has found very useful: Pinecil USB soldering iron & Nijan Creami ice cream machine.