Archive of posts tagged wait for dick jingle

Episode 929

Verbatim Insight
USB Hard Drive with Always-On LCD Display
Link: Verbatim
 
Dick and Leo play “What’s In the Box?” again with this freshly arrived UPS delivery.  Just an excuse to play the Wait For Dick Jingle.  The Verbatim Insight is a USB External Hard Drive with a piano black finish, available in 320GB and 500GB, with an always-on [...]

Episode 834

Presto OS
Instant Boot Operating System
Link: PrestoMyPC
 
Presto is a Linux-based operating system with a small footprint, which boots up instantly.  Essentially it's Xandros (which the first Asus Eee PC used) and is from the same company.  The extra is that the software installs itself as a dual boot OS with Windows XP or Vista for you [...]

Episode 814

Porter Case PCX Lite
Suitcase with Cart
Link: Porter Case
 
Back in Episode 520, Dick talked about an old Porter Case suitcase.  The company is still going strong, and Mr Porter tells Dick that he's still making them, and there's a new series of suitcases which cost about half the price of other cases.  It's the Porter Case [...]

Episode 785

Polaroid Pop Shots Camera
One-Time Use Polaroid Camera
Link: Camerapedia

Dick's Gadget Warehouse
 
 
Picture this.  A one-time use Polaroid instant camera.  The Pop Shots camera from the late 1990's gave you 10 instant shots (using Captiva film).  Although it was disposable, you were encouraged to send the camera body back to Polaroid using the mail envelope that came with [...]

Episode 726

Iomega Screenplay TV Link
Multimedia Player
Link: Iomega
 
Back in Episode 43, Dick introduced the Iomega Screenplay, which was a multimedia player with a built-in hard drive.  The Screenplay TV Link skips the hard drive but refines the multimedia playback capability.  It has a USB connection at the back for connecting to any USB storage (FAT or NTFS [...]