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Giz Wiz Show #2025, Thursday, January 30, 2025.
February 20th 2025, The Giz Wiz Show celebrates year 19! If you’d like to support our independent venture (we have zero ads) just click the Patreon link at the top of our web page. There’s a PayPal link there too. Thank you! www.gizwiz.tv.
Chad and our producer/videographer Josh Cheney, are back from CES 2025 in Vegas! Thank you Giz Wiz fan contributors for making that happen!!) This is the final CES 2025 show presenting four more unique gadgets and gizmos they found at the show!
Chad Gets A Tonie!
No, not a Tony, as in Tony Award, but he does get a peek at a signature Toniebox, which includes the Playtime Puppy Tonie. It features a select compilation of the most popular children’s songs for playtime including Wheels on the Bus, If You’re Happy and You Know It, Baby Shark and more! Controls are designed with little listeners (and little hands) in mind, so kids can easily adjust volume using the Toniebox ears, forward, rewind and change tracks / stories with a simple bump on the side. Explore a lot more at the company website. MSRP: $99.99. See website for the price of additional stories and games.
Product in Chad’s Video: https://us.tonies.com/products/toniebox-playtime-puppy-starter-set-red?variant=40462550368407
Company Website: https://us.tonies.com/
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2025
Meet A Robot For Your Backyard!
It’s the Yarbo Yard Robot
The company says their mission is delivering the best yard care experience, Team Yarbo continues to enhance its products and expand the product line. In addition to the award-winning units Snow Blower, Lawn Mower, and Blower, Yarbo’s innovations include the Lawn Mower Pro, Vision IQ, Granular Spreader, and Liquid Spreader. Their product lineup encompasses Snow Blower, Lawn Mower and Blower. Yarbo’s commitment to innovation extends to a wider range of yard maintenance solutions, encompassing irrigation, debris and leaf vacuuming, plowing, trimming, security patrol, and more. You start with the Yarbo Core unit which has a 3,500 lbs Towing Capacity, offers Secure Yard with Safety Alerts 24/7, Monitors Outdoor Space Anywhere, Anytime and Carry Weights & can follow autonomously. The Core MSRP is $3,799. Then there are combo prices for the Core unit and lawn mover, snow blower or leaf blower.
Website: https://www.yarbo.com/
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2025
Chad Finds A New High Tech Way To Handle ‘Cleaning The Kitty Litter Box’
It’s the Purobot Ultra Automatic Cat Litter Box. The company Petkit, describes it as a smart, AI-powered litter box for seamless pet care and health monitoring. Tracks toileting behavior with AI cameras to detect early health concerns, providing visual and data-driven insights via the PETKIT app. Enjoy up to 20 days of scoop-free convenience with airtight, odor-proof construction for easy maintenance. Three Models to Choose From: Basic, Advanced, and Premium options offer tailored features, including fixed or rotating AI cameras and auto-packing systems. Pricing and Availability: Models and pricing vary. Seems like the Ultra Automatic one is $899.99. Visit the PETKIT website for details.
Website: https://petkit.com/products/purobot-ultra
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2025
Fun New Kid’s Camera From My First Tech
The company myFirst Tech was founded by a team of super daddies who wanted to bridge the gap between technology and good old fashioned toys! They started myFirst back in 2017, with the launch of the pioneer myFirst Camera, which I’m pretty sure we covered at a past CES. MyFirst Tech has a ton of gadgets in the marketplace as you’ll learn from the incredible spokesperson Chad met at CES earlier this year. And you’ll learn about their latest kid’s smart watches and newest kid’s camera, the Insta 20 Thermal Printing Camera with a bigger screen, nicer graphics, and more. MSRP will be $99.99, but as of 1/31/25 there was a special preorder price of $75.00. Be aware that thermal printed pictures will not be as sharp as other pictures, and maybe not even as sharp as the one in the photo. As the chatroom said: “thermal printing paper is pretty much what your receipts from stores are printed on”.
You find a ton of myFirst gadgets at the company website: https://us.myfirst.tech/
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2025
Dick’s Gadget Warehouse – CES Edition
For our special CES shows, we go back in time and find a video we shot at a CES show years ago. We pick a video about a product that may or may not have actually made it into production. Or maybe it did, but no one bought it, and the company has folded. We show the video without having checked up on it in all the past years. Then Chad, I and the chatroom try to guess, “Is this gadget still around? Or: “Was this gadget ever made?”
For this week’s show I found a video I shot 10 years ago, at CES 2015. The gadget is from Cosmo Connected, an innovative French company. The spokesperson showed two incredible bike safety gadgets that impressed us all seeing them on this week’s show. But did they make it make it into production? Watch this week’s show and see!
Here’s that CES 2018 Gadget Warehouse Video that is also in the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vR4dPlgrEI
Company website: https://cosmoconnected.com/ (Spoiler Alert! Seems the products made it to the marketplace, but not for us in the U.S. Someone in chat said: They do not ship to the United States!)
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2025
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Email of the week:
Dear Dick & Chad.
I picked up one of the Sun Lamp Projectors just like the one you demonstrated.
I grabbed it at a Bin Store that sells Amazon returns. I paid a whopping $1.00
Works great. Sanford K Batavia IL
Here the projector Sanford was talking about I recall spending about $17 or so for mine, but now it was under $13.00 on 1/31/25 : https://amzn.to/4hcfJaH
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Article I found online about “What Is A Bin Store”
https://shopbinstores.com/understanding-amazon-bins-stores-what-they-are-and-where-to-find-one/
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