Episode 1022

9 February 2010, 2:37 pm

OWLE bubo

Camera Mount for iPhone

Link: OWLE

1022 OWLE bubo for iPhone

OWLE bubo for iPhone

 

The OWLE bubo is a device, with handles, for mounting the iPhone, for a steadier shoot.  It comes with an adapter lens that gives the iPhone a 37mm angle, a microphone that is more directional than the iPhone’s built-in mic, and a mount for flash.

For a more expensive alternative, there’s Tiffen’s Steadicam Smoothee.

Steadicam Smoothee

Steadicam Smoothee

 
Oy, Gevolt!

Dr Mark Sukoenig doesn’t understand what all the hubbub about the name of the iPad is about.  People don’t complain about the mouse pad, the launching pad, the landing pad, or crash pad. For those who don’t like the name, Dr Mark says, “iGevolt!”

 

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Episode 1021

8 February 2010, 2:07 pm

PowerGenix

Nickel Zinc Rechargeable Battery

Link: PowerGenix

1021 PowerGenix

PowerGenix

 

PowerGenix batteries are Nickel Zinc rechargeable AA batteries with an output of 1.6V (other AA batteries give 1.2V).  Shorter recharge time and 1000 recharges.  They’ve been included in Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2009.

MacWorld Live

Leo will be hosting MacWorld Live this Friday.  The line-up will include Heather Gold, Roger McGuinn, Adam Savage and Warp 11 featuring Kiki Stockhammer. It will be streamed on TWiTLive at 2 p.m. Pacific Time.

iPad

Stephen Colbert had an iPad at the Grammy Awards, one of 50 iPads believed to be in existence.  Sadly Leo hasn’t got one of them.

Thinking Alike

Dick and Leo think that they think alike.  Whether they do or not, it’s scary.

Woot Box of Crap

In Episode 973, Dick bought a Mystery Box of Crap from X10, and he wasn’t well pleased with it.  He became even less pleased when he heard that Nicholas Tudor paid $3 plus $5 shipping for a Woot Box of Crap, which included a hand-held game Einstein Number Wizard, an LG bluetooth stereo headset, a digital video camera, a SanDisk Sansa Clip 8GB refurbished, two Sansa Clips 2GB refurbished, two sets of Sansa headphones, a Belkin XM radio case, the Frogger hand-held game, the Tornado and one Back To Basics Nut Roaster !!!!

Jammerb’s Words of Comfort

jammerb, properly known as John Slanina and who recently joined the staff of TWiT, is the only one left in the TWiT Cottage who still speaks to Leo.  He tells Leo that Woot does these great deals only 3 times a year: April 1, July 2, and Christmas midnight Central time.  They’re very hard to get – in case we get too envious of Nicholas Tudor’s catch.

 

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Episode 1020

5 February 2010, 6:30 pm

Paint Pourri

Scented Additive for Paint

Link: Scentco

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1020 Paint Pourri

Paint Pourri

 

From the National Hardware Show of 2003, Paint Pourri was a scented additive which you could add to latex paint.   The scent would last for up to a year.  So has the product, and longer, as the product is still available.  That’s “aroomatherapy” for you.

Audible Total

Gill heard Episode 1010 in which a listener did a website which would display the total number of Audible books.   Gill reckons that there must be an easy way to get the number, and it’s by doing an empty search on Audible.  [Leo actually mentioned this method in that show.]

Weekend Shows

Tess (who may or may not be the same Tess in Episode 325) loves Dick’s new site.  She’s a big fan and starts the day with the show every week day.  Tess wonders if Dick and Leo could do the Saturday and Sunday shows as well.   No immediate plans for that, but Tess can always listen to the themes for those shows at saturdaytheme.com and sundaytheme.com – thanks to listener Daniel Rodrigues Parreira who runs the websites.

Match Game on TWiTLive

Sometimes while Leo is messing around elsewhere in the TWiT Cottage, Dick will do some Match Game questions with the chatroom.   Leo suggests that perhaps Dick might do that once in a while late at night on TWiTLive, when Dick feels like it.

 

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Episode 1019

4 February 2010, 8:03 am

WikiReader

Electronic Wikipedia

Link: thewikireader

1019 WikiReader

WikiReader

 

The WikiReader is an electronic version of the entire Wikipedia, stored on an 8GB memory card, displayed on a black and white screen, with only 3 buttons – Search, History and Random, running Openmoko, with a virtual keyboard.  Coming soon is a subscription service which gives you 2 updates per year, by having 2 new memory cards delivered to you.  Alternatively you can do the update yourself by downloading the file yourself.

Trackball Explorer

Dick and Leo often wonder why manufacturers ever made a particular gadget, but probably never wonder why they stopped making a gadget.  Brian Drake from Gallatin, Tennessee has one from the latter category, his favourite Microsoft Trackball Explorer, which still fetches very high prices on Amazon and eBay.

Microsoft Trackball Explorer

Microsoft Trackball Explorer

 
Brain Trainer

Leo has several brain training games on his iPhone.  His trainer was telling him that chronic high blood pressure may be one of the contributing causes for Alzheimer’s Disease.  Maybe Leo should check his blood pressure, ‘coz he’s always losing the thread.

 

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Episode 1018

3 February 2010, 8:54 am

Siemens Gigaset One

Home Bluetooth Gateway for Cellphones

Link: Gigaset One

1018 Siemens Gigaset One

1018 Siemens Gigaset One

 

The Siemens Gigaset One enables you to make and answer calls on your mobile phone from any cordless or corded phone in your house.  Just plug it into a cordless or corded phone, and pair the Gigaset One with any bluetooth cellphone (up to 3) by pressing one of three buttons on the Gigaset One – with different ringtones for different pairings (and the land line).  It’s a home bluetooth gateway for your cellphones.  Think of it as the bluetooth equivalent of a wifi router.  No need for a land line for it to work.

Climate Verblunget

The weather both in New York and in Petaluma is a little mixed up at the moment.  DrMom from the chatroom says it’s a climate verblunget.

A Millennium Lost

Stefan Schemahorn noticed something wrong when listening to Episode 1007.  In the intro, Leo gave the date as January 19th, 1010.  A century lost? No, it’s an entire millennium lost.

Search and Replace, Undo, Reboot

Leo wishes that he could do a Command-Z for his mistakes in life, or a Search and Replace, or as the chatroom suggests, Ctril-Alt-Del.

 

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