Commodore VIC-20
Vintage Computer
Link: PC Museum Tweeting VIC-20
Dick’s Gadget Warehouse
Released in January 1981, the Commodore VIC-20 had, according to Dick, 8 KB RAM, running on a 1 MHz processor, with a 16 colours display output (which you just hooked up to your TV). It was the first computer that sold more than 1 million units.
If you [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
Episode 1035
Episode 1033
Puppy Tweets
Pet Tweeting Device
Link: Amazon
We’ve had the TwitterPeek (Episode 958), a device dedicated to tweeting, and the Withings Scale (Episode 997) that tweets Leo’s weight. It’s only a matter of time when our pets catch up, and here’s the device for it. From the recent Toy Fair, Puppy Tweets is Mattel’s (or Radica’s) [...]
Episode 1032
Edna Meisner’s Up Chuck and Sugar Lobster
Egg Separator / Brown Sugar Softener
Link: ednasceramictreasures.webs.com
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
Two weeks ago, fans Steve and Stephanie from Nova Scotia made a special effort to go to the TWiT Cottage, on a Monday, in order to watch the recording of the Daily Giz Wiz. Stephanie’s mother, Edna Meisner (from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia), who [...]
Episode 1031
SeaLegs
Amphibious Boat
Link: SeaLegs
Dick managed to escape the snow storm in New York a couple of weeks ago to fly down to the Miami Boat Show, where he saw this amphibious boat, the SeaLegs, an inflatable boat with a wheel at the bow and two at the stern which can be lowered to run on land. [...]
