Posts by Robin Raskin

About Robin Raskin

Robin Raskin is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Living in Digital Times. She created Last Gadget Standing. An author, editor, magazine publisher, blogger, and TV and radio personality, and consultant, Raskin says she's never met a media she doesn't like, and is happiest when she's writing about technology's second citizens: kids and seniors, or about women and technology.


She Knows: Fitness Tech Gadgets

From She Knows, Fitness tech gadgets are still the talk of CES. You’ll recognize many of them from the summit.

How Social Networking Wrecked My CES Events

I am not a newbie – I’ve been at CES for an eternity, as the emcee and creative force behind the Last Gadget Standing and the Mobile Apps Showdown – two events at CES that both rely heavily on the people’s vote to decide on a winner. There was a time when the people’s vote [...]

Trendy 2011: Tablets Up, 3D Down

Industry watchers like nothing better than to observe as trends come and go. A site that I love, The Crystal Ball Society, started by Jesse Schell, lets you record these predictions for posterity. A good thing,  since most of us will forget our own predictions  in matter of days. Sometimes predications are a matter of [...]

Gadgets: For Your Health (and under the tree)

Arnet offers up a nice gift list of digital health gadgets for the holidays. You’ll see many of them at the Sports & Fitness Tech Summit at CES this January.

Swimming to the Oldies

As you age exercise takes it’s toll on the body. Many turn to non-weight bearing exercises, swimming being the most popular. But listening to the voice in your head can get tedious after a dozen laps. And quite a few older adults would rather not spend their days DJing their playlists for the pool. That’s where Fitness [...]

Fit and Fun: My Life with Gaggle of New Body Monitors

If you’re not wearing a body monitor that senses your moves and tallies up your daily energy expenditure, then your workout may be missing it’s pizzazz. Or at least its brains, because I’m telling you, these smart monitors are pretty smart. Unlike myself, who must look really dumb for wearing them off of every belt [...]

Magisto: A (baby) Step for Video Amateurs

Have you ever thought about those glassy eyed audience members that you force to watch your family videos? I mean, really thought about how they feel and what they could possibly be thinking? I’m pretty sure they’re wishing that some genie in a bottle would come and either whisk them away to an undisclosed location, [...]

High Tech Mouthguard Monitors Impact to Head During Sports

Watching their kids play sports, every parent I know has their heart in their stomach, for fear of injury, especially to their still-developing brains. And for good reason: at least 250,000 concussions occur in high school football every year. And the CDC estimates almost 4 million sports-related brain injuries occur each year, many going undiagnosed [...]

High Tech Mouthguard Monitors Impact to Head During Sports

Watching their kids play sports, every parent I know has their heart in their stomach, for fear of injury, especially to their still-developing brains. And for good reason: at least 250,000 concussions occur in high school football every year. And the CDC estimates almost 4 million sports-related brain injuries occur each year, many going undiagnosed [...]

Tech Geeks, People Who Can’t Get Dates, and their Smartphones

Some fun new data from Qumu, the internet business video platform provider, indicates that Americans think that the release of a new smartphone matters to anyone – 88% of Americans, to be precise.  Who do they think a new smartphone release – say, the amped-up new iPhone 4s being released October 14 – would matter [...]