Friday, December 12, 2014

UVA+B SunFriend Encourages Healthy Exposure to the Sun

The UVA+B SunFriend device is wearable technology that monitors the sun exposure of the wearer, so that they know when it’s time to cover up or seek shelter. SunFriend, the startup company behind the product, launched it on the company’s website earlier this year and is bringing it to International CES for the first time.

Read about it here on Consumer Electronics Daily News.

GoldKey Secure Communicator

This year during 2015 International CES, GoldKey is going to announce the Secure Communicator, a luxury smart watch that's also a stand-alone cell phone. The really exceptional part is that the watch includes dual-factor authentication with an encryption key that's managed in a USB key that's held by the watch's owner. What that means  is that if the feds want data communicated through the cell phone, they're going to have to come to the watch's owner instead of to the wireless provider. No more finding out later that the security of your communications may have been breached because your wireless provider has already handed over your data in response to a subpoena you knew nothing about. Don't imagine it's cheap, but real protection never is.

Read more about it here and see it at CES.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Mad Millie Cheesemaking Kits

Mad Millie is a New Zealand company that makes these wonderful cheesemaking kits that they're now selling in the U.S. They also make cider kits, but it's the cheese kits that really jingled my chimes.

The Kitchen Store: New England Cozy

Here's a profile of The Kitchen Store in Guilford, Connecticut, where Karen Schumann sells things that she uses in her own kitchen, including kitchenware, herbs and spice blends that she brings in from California and pizza dough.

How to Write Effective Trade Show Marketing Copy

Here's a link to a piece I wrote to help Oser Communications Group trade show publication clients put together their marketing copy for the publications.