Gadget lover Peter Pham outlines top picks
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. If there’s a new gadget released, odds are Peter Pham has bought it.
The co-founder of tech incubator Science, Inc., Pham is obsessed with the latest new devices, and lives in a home surrounded by the newest in virtual reality, communication gear and bluetooth headphones.
With new devices, “we live in a world where we smile a little more and enjoy our lives a little more,” says Pham, whose company has helped firms like Dollar Shave Club and DogVacay get off the ground.
For our extended weekend edition of the #TalkingTech podcast, we sat down with Pham to go over his top 10 favorite items of the year, a roster that for includes some obvious ones--Google’s new PhotoScan app for snapping pictures of photos with your smartphone camera--minus glare, and Eero, the device for improving the home internet signal. (He's not invested in any of the items he touts on the show.)
On #TalkingTech, Pham also opts for out of the way, up and coming startups, like:
--Nucleus, a $199 digital intercom system to check in with his aging dad from home, the car or the office, without having to connect on FaceTime or Skype.
--Aura, a $399 digital photo frame with a twist--it pulls in photos from your smartphone collection.
He loves Google Home, Google’s $129 answer to Amazon’s Echo, a personalized digital assistant for the home to answer Google queries. (As it made my “Tech Turkey” list, we have a spirited debate about the device’s attributes.)
And he’s huge on the Bose QC35 bluetooth $349 headphones, for switching from AAA battery to USB charging. “I travel a lot,” he says. “If you love not hearing the hum of the engines or baby crying around you on a plane,” you’ll appreciate the headphones.
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