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Snappy Video Snapshot
Screen Capture Device
Link: Atomic Internet
This is not a reproduction of an Easter Island statue, but a product from the mid 1990's, made by Play Inc, called the Snappy Video Snapshot. You connected it to a parallel port of the computer. It had composite video in and out, which you hooked up to a video source such as your VCR or TV set, and when you pressed the Capture button, Snappy Video Snapshot would do a screen capture for you. It would also cost you $199.
It was ranked 39 in PC World's 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years in 2005. The latest iteration of this product was Snappy 4.0, still available at the time of writing on Amazon.
Here's a clip, from 1990, from the TV programme Computer Chronicles (from www.archive.org), with Paul Montgomery and Tim Jenison showing a demonstration of the Video Toaster on an Amiga.
Two years later came the Video Toaster 2.0. Here's the promotional video to show what it was capable of in 1992.
Jonas from Norway enjoyed Episode 556's Gotcha, as he loves pranks and jokes with his gifts. However, he hasn't needed to use Gotcha yet, since all he needs to do is give his friend one of Leo's TTTT gadgets like the toothpick bird. Cheaper too.
Law and Order
Woody Allen finally decided not to use Dick's boat for his next film after all, but Dick's boat will now appear in Law And Order. Dick will tell us about it next week. Meanwhile, you can read about it on Dick's website.
Listen to Episode 565
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The Giz Wiz Home Page
Timex Sinclair 1000
Vintage Computer
Link: OldComputers.net
Mike and Jean Troiano
Fans of Leo from California, they have visited the set of the Screen Savers, the TWiT Office, and will soon visit the new TWiT Studio. They may well take with them Carvel's Lumpy the Whale, more correctly known as Fudgie the Whale (see Episode 357).
TWiT Studio
Leo has referred to the new TWiT Studio a few times in his recent podcasts, including DGW. He's going to set up his live TV station in the old Victorian house in Petaluma. To see what the house looks like from the outside, see Episode 73.
To read more about Leo's new ideas for TWiT, read his blog.
Obsoleting ...
A listener writes in to talk about the quickest time in which a gadget is obsoleted by a subsequent gadget, such as the printer obsoleting the typewriter, and the cellphone obsoleting the typewriter. Somehow the rest of the letter got obsoleted after Dick and Leo distracted themselves with warm-up acts.
Our Own Ed McMahon
Dane Golden is aspiring to be the warm-up act for TWiT Live, as Ed McMahon was for Johnny Carson, Michael Gellman for Regis and Kathie Lee, and Johnny Olson for the Match Game.
Cutest Little Chick in Town
Butter and Eggs Day is coming up in Petaluma and they have a Cutest Little Chick Contest, says Leo. For more on the Butter and Eggs Day, listen to Episodes 56 and 311. Petaluma seems to have more than its fair share of wacky contests, including the Ugliest Dog Contest: see Episode 348.
Listen to Episode 535
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Read Dick's Write-Up
LeapFrog FlyPen
Magic Pen
Link: Flypen
Draw a calculator with this pen on special "fly paper", and the drawing becomes a real working calculator, just like magic! The Leapfrog Flypen has a miniature video camera that keeps track of what's being drawn to enable it to work in other "magical" ways. It even comes with a built-in speaker and headphones jack. Dick tries to demonstrate it and it goes "Low Battery".
Lord of the Rings in Theatre
The stage version of Lord of the Rings has premiered in Toronto. A little problem with the Helm's Deep scene. Listen to Leo's account.
This is a piece of crap
Dick
was going to show a new laptop to Regis on TV. When Dick came on air,
Dick looked at the laptop, and on the computer screen was the message,
"This is a piece of crap." Listen to how Dick dealt with it.
Listen to Episode 14
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