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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 show 1 of 3 showing off all the fun gadgets and gizmos they found at the show!

Now on to the new gadgets!

Shokz wins a CES 2025 Innovation Award for their new OpenMeet headset. It features Shokz’s signature open-ear design, freeing you from the discomfort and stuffiness of traditional on-ear and over-ear headsets for all-day comfort. At just 78g, OpenMeet is feather-light and stands as the lightest overhead wireless office headset2, delivering truly effortless comfort for all-day wear like never before. From $219.95. Learn more on this week’s show. (Giz Wiz note: It seems adding a USB-C or USB A adaptor adds $30 to the price.)

Company website: https://shokz.com/products/openmeet

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2023

Chad loves his ReMarkable digital writing tablet. It was on his ‘best of list for 2024″. At CES, they introduced a new version, the reMarkable Paper Pro. Here’s what the company says about it: Bring paper into your digital workflow with reMarkable Paper Pro. Ultra-slim and portable, but with a full-size 11.8” color display, adjustable reading light, and an unmatched paper-like writing experience. Priced From $579.00 and up, Chad said he not about to move up to color. (At least for now.) You’ll learn all about the new model on this week’s show. 

Company website: https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-paper/pro

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2023

The company says that unlike other pet doors, the Pawport Smart Pet Door closes firmly to form a direct weatherproof seal between your home and the outdoors. Not only will this save on your heating/cooling bill, but it will greatly eliminate an easy access point for bugs or other critters. And since our door is constructed of solid steel and aluminum, your pet door will no longer be a weak spot in your home’s security. And they say a lot more to Chad on this week’s show, including “Yes, it’s bulletproof!”

Company website: https://pawport.com

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2023

Looks of companies make bird feeders with built-in cameras. Bird Buddy makes several of them and they’re very popular. But now they’re introducing something new, called Petal. As you can see in the photo is could be a “What The Heck Is It?” gadget. It’s an HD camera on a bendable stalk that I guess is supposed to look like a flower. It has a fake leaf that may be offered as an optional solar panel to keep the camera battery charged. The idea is to place Petal in your garden and instead of birds, you’ll see things like bees, butterflies and maybe things you don’t want to see like Lantern Flies and mosquitoes. It’s expected to sell for about $99 and will be featured as a Kickstarter project sometime in the Spring. You’ll more about Petal from the company on this week’s show.

The Bird Buddy Website: https://mybirdbuddy.com/

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2023

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 5 years ago, at CES 2019. The gadget is from Whill Personal Electronics. It’s an autonomous chair you might find at an airport. You use your smartphone to call it. When it arrives you get on it and tell it where you want to go. Like maybe the gate 25, or Luggage Pickup. The spokesperson said it was already being tested a a few airports? Did it make it into production? Watch this week’s show and see!

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2023

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This week’s email of the week is from Rachel Ziese.

She told us she found the USB Astronaut Task Light that is voice controlled on Walmart.

I did a video about about about a month here ago here: https://gizwiz.me/now-you-can-give-commands-to-an-astronaut/

She found it at Walmart on clearance. (Like under $4.00 – It was still there on 1/17/25)

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Night-Light-Smart-Voice-Control-USB-LED-Reading-Lamp-Computer-Spaceman-Astronaut-Flexible-Eye-Care-Laptop-Notebook-Desktop-Desk/11987665074