20 October 2009, 4:00 pm
Penguin Tea Timer
Tea Making Timer
Link: stupid.com
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
Thanks to listener Steve Leth, whose letter was read by Dick in Episode 938, Leo presents to us the surprise gadget of the week, the Penguin Tea Timer available on stupid.com. You can hang the ball strainer (provided) or a tea bag from the beak of the Penguin, set the [...]
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19 October 2009, 4:00 pm
SafetyGate
Power Supply Safety
Link: safetygatestore.com
If for any reason a power outage occurs and you forget to turn off an appliance, you or your child may get injured when the power comes back on and the appliance restarts. The SafetyGate keeps the appliance turned off until you turn it back on.
Happy Birhday to Dick
Today is Dick’s birthday. [...]
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Tagged abu dhabi, alex lindsay, birthday cake, bob scott, bonfire, butter and eggs nickname, chicken and liver, dennis wonderlin, dubai, gold brick, gold souks, home hardware, insidedgw.com, jennifer laporte, petaluma, podcast awards, power outage, power supply, prodigal host, rainbow room, ruth epstein, safe start systems, safety and security, safetygate, sully sullenberger, toothpick bird, whiskerino, windows 7, windows 7 party kit
11 September 2009, 4:00 pm
SecuraCard Wallet
Beeping Wallet
Link: LA Times and Beeping Wallet
Dick’s Gadget Warehouse
Dick’s SecuraCard Wallet dates back to 1991, was made by a company called Koltov, and would sound a beep if a credit card left its slot. For the wallet to work, every slot had to be filled with a credit card or a card fill-in. It [...]
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Tagged apparel, beeping wallet, cod, credit card, david kopel, earth goddess, gaia, halloween, koltov, kopel inc, no letter, petaluma, pink leotard, safety and security, securacard, securacard wallet, winter solstice, wood smoke, work train
3 August 2009, 4:08 pm
Picture Keeper
USB Thumb Drive for Photos Backup
Link: Picture Keeper
The Picture Keeper is a USB Thumb Drive (4, 8 or 16GB) with pre-loaded software that searches your computer for picture files and back them up to the thumb drive. Subsequent backups are incremental. It can be used to back up pictures on multiple computers. There is [...]
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Tagged backup, bangladesh, baroque fugue, beatles, blockbuster idea, chris marquardt, cloud computing, collector's item, computer accessory, dan lueders, echo, elvis, episode 900, fast food nation, fast food restaurant, fire log, first order, flash drive, george wood, german accent, giz wiz meetup, henry laporte, in and out burger, iphone app, iphone app navionics, jingles world tour, joseph colletti, maats, marine aftermarket accessories show, mark blasco, mirror, musical archivist, nautical chart plotter, navionics, paul minshall, petaluma, picture keeper, polyester, santana, star wars music world tour, subway world tour, super size me, this week in google, tiwt, tiwt hat, twit hat, twit trademark, usb drive, usb flash drive, usb thumb drive, white castle, world tour
30 July 2009, 4:30 pm
LG enV3
Cellphone
Link: LG
The third iteration of the LG enV (version one in Episode 219), the enV 3 is available in the US at Verizon. This time it has a 2.6" internal LCD screen (320 x 240 pixels), a 3 MP camera (stills and video), a qwerty keyboard, a microSD card slot, and supports bluetooth stereo. [...]
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Tagged brooklyn bridge, bungee cord, butt dialing, cabinet, carmakers of america, cellphone, chris van amburg, cravat, crowning glory, cutting edge, dane golden, empire state building, env3, episode 900, heat wave, hobo, hobo fare, ipres, jason calacanis, jennifer laporte, johnny carson, leo's crown, lg, lg env3, man of the year, marc andreessen, maroon, molly wood, out of the box, petaluma, petaluma heat wave, podcast awards, podcast of the year, precursor, president of the internet, pushing the envelope, radio city, radio city music hall, salad, sandisk v-mate, sandisk vmate, sandwich, secretary of fun, speed dialing, sprint, starbucks, statue of liberty, tech republic, train enthusiast, twit, verizon, vintage train, weather bureau, white gloves, wine tasting, wine train
