WCES 2014 Roundup – Day Two – TV companies almost rested today
By the Staff of Digital Family Advisor No surprises from the floor of the Vegas Convention center or the many private hotel suites that TV manufacturers showed off their wares. Prices quoted to retail buyers, dropped like stones on the 4K or now dubbed Ultra HD TVs. From major players like Panasonic, Visio, Sony, Samsung, […]
Read MoreWCES 2014 Roundup – Day One
By The Staff of Digital Family Advisor LG’s Fitness Foray After being out maneuvered in audio video and mobile products by its Korean arch rival Samsung, LG jumped ahead in the burgeoning arena of fitness related electronics with the LG Lifeband Touch and the LG Heart Rate Earphones. The Lifeband Touch is a wearable device […]
Read MoreConsumer Tech for January – Target’s issue brings out experts’ 2014 advice for consumers
By Robert Plunkett and Richard M. Sherwin If a well-run retailer like Target can’t protect their own financial firewall and your credit card information as hackers proved recently, how vulnerable is the average consumer in protecting their own computers and Tablets from being broken into? And how can consumers protect their first line of defense…their […]
Read MoreLast Minute and Post-Holiday Gifts
From $6 to $6,000 the staff at DFA has picked out a handful of interesting gifts that will satisfy holiday shopping or post-holiday wishes too. By Amy Eller, Max Jay, Susan Davis, Erick Royer and Richard Sherwin Don’t bathe with these scrumptious looking mobile device chargers dubbed Moonstone. In fact 8 gifts come with […]
Read MoreConsumer Tech for December – The Ten Top Holiday Tech Questions
By Richard M. Sherwin (With Max Jay, Susan Davis, Amy Eller, Bob Plunkett and Erick Royer) Friends, relatives and Frenamies seem to like calling from Walmart or Frys or PC Richards or even Best Buy and Costco. “I have got all the details and I need one final question answered before I get my […]
Read MoreHoliday Gift Guide 2013
With Gary Kaye, Richard Sherwin, Amy Eller, Dr. Doree Seligmann, Susan Davis, Max Jay, Erick Royer and Jennifer Auspitz We kick off the 7th Annual Holiday Gift Guide with what we think are some of the best gifts for kids of all ages. It is also one of the largest gift guides ever for DFA. […]
Read MoreSony’s RX10 – One Size Can Fit All
What Is It? We will admit that when Sony told us they had a new compact camera that would make us rethink the need for an interchangeable lens camera, we were skeptical. But after several days of shooting with the DSC-RX10 our team became believers. The Sony CyberShot RX10 is a premium fixed lens camera […]
Read MoreThe New Console Holiday Buyer’s Guide
By Max Jay This year is ushering in a new generation of home consoles with the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. After the better part of a decade with the PS3 and 360 we finally have new toys to play with – but many out there in consumer land may have some trouble deciding […]
Read MoreThe Lifestyle Prospective – Thermostats, the Cloud, and Hairy Noon and Night
By Amy Eller (Amy is an Integrative Lifestyle Advisor) “Hello Thermostat”. That’s all you need to remember. Those two little words are your key to success in managing the comfort of your home or homes and office, store; many locations can be managed with those two little words, Hello Thermostat. There is a reason we […]
Read MoreBYTES AND PIECES for November
By Max Jay, Erick Royer, Amy Eller and Christine Eads Bose Bypasses Blue Tooth with new Home Audio System Bose had introduced a new line of ultra-sophisticated home speaker systems that use wi-fi to access all of your musical preferences with just one touch. The Bose Sound Touch music systems come in three models designed […]
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