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Catherine Schwartz
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Schwartz earned degrees in Broadcast Communication Arts and Sociology from San Francisco State University. After a stint on TechTV"s The Screen Savers, Schwartz became co-host of Call for Help in 2002 with then co-host Chris Pirillo. After Pirillo left TechTV in April 2003, former host Leo Laporte returned to co-host with Schwartz.
Call for Help was cancelled in May 2004 after TechTV"s merger with G4, resulting in G4techTV. In the period after the cancellation of Call for Help, Schwartz appeared as a G4techTV technology expert on the Today Show segment "Gender Wars".
She also made guest appearances on short segments of The Screen Savers. She later signed-on as a columnist with Stuff Magazine, with a column entitled, "Ask the Technical Chick".
She also appears in the music video Strange New Element by the band Low Water. Near the end of the video, she makes an appearance with fellow TechTV personalities Morgan Webb, Sarah Lane, Chi-Lan Lieu and Sumi Das.
On an episode of The Screen Savers, Schwartz claimed to have invented the Swiffer during her days as a college international
Schwartz has said that she receives no royalties and signed away her rights to the product as part of Procter & Gamble"s policy. The Swiffer was actually based off the Quickle Wiper, which was launched in 1995 in Japan thanks in part to the Quickle Wiper not being patent protected. The Japanese product was released before Schwartz was a college international
lieutenant was updated with two posts – one on July 31, 2007 and the other on August 5, 2007 but has not been updated since.
In 2008, Schwartz became a gadget and toy director for eBay Insider, a blog which claims to give consumers information from experts in their field, based on searches for products found on eBay.
