Episode 1040

5 March 2010, 8:08 am

Ultradata Road Whiz and GreensFinder

Early Location-Based Services Gadgets

Link: Ultradata Systems

Dick’s Gadget Warehouse

1040 Ultradata Road Whiz and Golf Guide

Ultradata Road Whiz and Golf Guide

 

Ultradata Systems was ahead of its time in the mid-90s, with products such as the Greensfinder (or Golf Guide), which would tell you where the nearest golf course was, and the Road Whiz, which would tell you where the nearest auto-related services were, like restaurants and petrol stations.  Now with GPS and smartphones around, these products look distinctly out of date. But they’re still selling the Road Rage Relief.

TWiT Cottage East

Leo has been thinking about having a morning show done from the East Coast.  That project is now taking shape.  TWiT will have a studio in New York, with SquareSpace making space for TWiT from their new SOHO office.

Gadget Warehouse Finder

Listening to Episode 1030, Jeff Pinn from Rochester decided to follow Leo’s directions to Dick’s Gadget Warehouse.  Jeff is familiar with New York but couldn’t quite visualise the warehouse’s location.  Google 360 didn’t help.  Dick explains that the warehouse is inside Sofia Brothers Warehouse at the corner of 83rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue.  For more details, see Episode 850.

 

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Episode 1039

4 March 2010, 12:50 pm

Logitech LapDesk N700

Laptop Stand with Speakers

Link: Logitech

1039 Logitech LapDesk N700

Logitech LapDesk N700

 

A laptop stand from Logitech, the LapDesk N700 comes with a cooling fan and built-in speakers, with volume controls right on the stand itself.

For a previously covered laptop stand, see Episode 457, the LapWorks Futura.

Disney Smellitzer

The Paint Pourri in Episode 1020 reminds Daryl Holmquist of Disneyland’s scent emulator which produces scents and smells reminiscent of that particular part of Disney World.  Daryl refers to it as the Smellolizer, but apparently the name is Smellitzer, and the technology involved has been patented by Disney.  Perhaps one day DGW listener Ricky Brigante can write about it on his Inside the Magic blog.

 

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Episode 1038

3 March 2010, 8:37 am

Folkmanis Puppets

Puppets

Link: Folkmanis

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Folkmanis Puppets

 

At the Toy Fair, Dick saw these puppets made by Folkmanis.  There is a huge variety of them, from finger puppets, hand puppets to two-hand puppets.  All adorable – as featured on Episode 1000 of Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show.

You can see how Dick, with the help of “stage-hand” Dennis Wunderlin, demonstrate the puppets in the video below – courtesy of Team ODTV at odtv.me.

Folkmanis Puppets

 
Turn On the Buzz

Leo has been welcoming Google Buzz with open arms, as he does with most things new, but even Dick finds it rather appealing, because every time he turns it on, he gets a bunch more followers.  Follow Dick from his Google Profile page.

Giz Wiz Gadget Involved in Scandal

John Toben from Marietta, Georgia, faithful listener since Episode 1, reports the top story of the day in the Atlanta Paper.  An airport manager was at a meeting negotiating with Delta Airlines.  He accidentally left his Livescribe Pulse Smartpen (Episode 653) behind, with the recorder turned on.  Delta was pulsing with rage after they found out.  You can read the story on ajc.com.

Funny how, 18 months after Dick first talked about the gadget, it’s suddenly come back to the fore again, most recently in Episode 1030.

 

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Episode 1037

2 March 2010, 8:52 am

Gazelle

Gadgets Recycler

Link: Gazelle

1037 gazelle.com

gazelle.com

 

This week, Leo has no gadgets at all, and decides to talk about a website (which is a new sponsor on MacBreak Weekly), that is called gazelle.com.  It will buy old gadgets from you for cash, including cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, gaming consoles etc.  Find out on the website how much you will get, and they’ll even pay for the shipping, and send you a box for you to post the gadget in.

Is someone trying to compete with Dick’s Gadget Warehouse?

ZipShot Tripod

J A Gate has a suggestion for Leo’s camera gear: a very light-weight tripod called the ZipShot Tripod, by Tamrac.

ZipShot Tripod

ZipShot Tripod

 

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Episode 1036

1 March 2010, 8:10 am

Tweeza-Lite

Illuminated Tweezers

Link: Amazon

1036 Tweeza-Lite

Tweeza-Lite

 

A pair of tweezers with an LED light to illuminate the target, that’s Tweeza-Lite.

Gizneyland Guest

Lighting expert Pat Grosswendt of Litepanels is in Dick’s studio for this week’s recording.

DGW in its Fifth Year

Last week the Daily Giz Wiz marched into its 5th year.  Episode 1 was released on 20 February 2006.  It all started one day when Leo was at the Hudson Hotel in New York with Dick …  See also Episode 99.

Illuminated Key Cap

Leo met someone in the neighbourhood the other day who invented a key cap that illuminates the key-hole, although it may not have been the same gadget as the Nanolite (Episode 996).

Keychain Spy Camera

When Dick talked about the Keychain Spy Camera in Episode 1029, he had mislaid the email from the listener who told him about it.  That was Chuck Lohr, and you can find his review at chucklohr.com/808/.  The technology inside, a hacker friend of Chuck’s has found out, may well be part of a cellphone package from China.  Chuck is slightly worried about Leo’s order, as even for an inexpensive little gadget like this, there are knock-offs and some are not as good as others.

 

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