12 posts tagged “handheld”
UroClub
Handheld Portapotty
Link: UroClub
The UroClub gives true meaning to the word "portapotty". Made to resemble a golf club in appearance, it is a hollow tube which has a cap which unscrews, to help a male golfer who can't find a restroom nearby to answer the call of nature. It comes with a "privacy shield", which Dick calls the "privacy apron". It's essentially a towel which clips on to the UroClub, and has 2 extra clips for hooking itself to your pants' loops or belt.
It has the size of a 7 iron, and the capacity of over half a litre, twice the "common volume".
Todcast
A new name for TWiTLive - Todcast - for TWiT On Demand.
Tetraphobia
Evan Pedersen of Fancy Pants Gangsters has an explanation for tetraphobia (Episode 590). In Japanese, the word for 4 is "shi", which is similar in sound to the Japanese word for death. The Japanese will sometimes say "yan" for the number 4 instead. Similar situations in Chinese and Korean.
Nintendo Game Boy DMG-01
Handheld Game Console
Link: Wikipedia
The success of the original Game Boy was such that the next new model (with the exception of the Play It Loud series which had the same specs, just cases with different colours), the Game Boy Pocket, wasn't released until 1996, which was smaller and lighter.
Not a letter from a listener, but a press release from Damon Carson, President of Kiddie Rides USA, which refurbishes old coin-operated kiddie rides. They're now available for sale.
Listen to Episode 595
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Ziszor
Portable Paper Shredder
Link: Ziszor
A Wireless Toaster
Karen Toast Conger, of ToastFloats, used to work for WatchGuard, a network security devices company. As a parting gift, she was given a very special toaster. Her colleagues bought her a Cuisinart toaster, took it apart, and put a WatchGuard Firebox X Edge wireless router into it. A wireless router, security device, and a toaster.
Listen to Episode 557
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Eee PC
Portable Computer
Link: Asus
All of that in a 8.86" x 6.30" x 1.26" body, weighing 2 pounds. An 8GB model with a 10" screen is expected.
WalkStool
After insulting the Taiwanese, Leo goes on to insult a listener. He reads a letter from Anthony Devito Junior who writes in about the WalkStool. Leo doesn't understand why he's written in and thinks it's a crappy letter. The letter might have something to do with the EZ Swany Stick Chair (Episode 425) and it wouldn't have been so awful if not for Leo's crappy Italian accent.
Alessandro writes in about the OLPC, One Laptop Per Child project. For the US and Canada, between November 12 and November 26, you can buy an OLPC and another one will be donated to a child in a developing country.
Listen to Episode 447
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Freedom Keychain GPS
Bluetooth GPS Device
Link: FreedomInput Crackberry
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
Leo's new Blackberry Curve 8320 (Episode 422) does not come with GPS, so he goes straight to Crackberry to get the Freedom Keychain GPS, or mini GPS, a bluetooth GPS device that connects to portable devices such as PDA, laptops and cellphones including Blackberry phones via Bluetooth Version 2.0 Class II, within a range of 10m. It is not bundled with any software, but is intended to work with the software that comes with, or can be downloaded for, your individual portable device, such as Google Maps or Blackberry Maps. Having a separate GPS module also means less drain on the battery of your portable device. It comes with a car charger cable and a USB cable for charging the battery.
It uses the new SiRF Star III chipset, with 20 channels "All-In-View" Tracking. It also loads up quickly, in about 20 seconds on his Blackberry Curve 8320.
Time Scales
Jayzee, better known as Toyota Boy on DGW, is amused by the logic of the canine time scale - the dog years (Episode 420), and muses about the time scales for the housefly and the redwood tree.
1 vs 100
Henry Laporte has followed Leo's footsteps by being featured in the latest issue of Mad, in an article on the game show 1 vs 100. That gets Dick and Leo on to their favourite subject, game shows. For the story on Leo's appearance in Mad, see Episode 61.
Samsung Q1 Ultra
UMPC
Link: Samsung
The Land of the Rolling Hills
Petaluma is a native Indian word meaning "The Land of the Rolling Hills".
The Lost Jingle
Someone has sent in a jingle to Dick wondering if this was the old letters jingle they were looking for (Episode 285). It's not a letters jingle at all but a gravy jingle submission. It's by Dan Lueders. This was the jingle submission Dick referred to in Episode 115, which Dick thought was played on Episode 114 but in fact wasn't - at least not on the currently available download.
Voices in your head
Dick and Leo have become voices in Bob Hamilton's head.
Listen to Episode 313
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Mio DigiWalker H610
Handheld Personal GPS System & PMP
Link: Mio-Tech
Power Logon
The coupon code for Access-Smart's Power Logon is still available. The code is DGW. Access Smart CEO Dovell Bonnett has also made 25 free copies of his new book "Online Identity Theft Protection for Dummies" to DGW listeners.
Listen to Episode 302
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The Taxi Wand
Handheld Beacon for Hailing Taxis
A wand for hailing taxis from 1998. The Taxi Wand probably never made it into the market. Hail and goodbye.
DGW on the Dentist Chair
A listener Martin downloads DGW on to a CD and listens to them while at the dentist's.
Old Clothes
Cool B says he will adopt Dick's trick of getting rid of old clothes.
Old Batteries
A listener refers to Fedcoelectronics who has all sorts of batteries, and can even rebuild an old battery for you. That should solve Dick's problem with the flat battery of the Cassiopeia FIVA (Episode 175).
Mad Minute
Generals Fools International Caffeine.
Atari Portfolio
Handheld Computer
Link: OldComputers.net
Dick, Leo and Regis
Leo finds appearing on Regis & Kelly a tough job. He has to collect about 100 gadgets, fly there, and pay for a hotel room in order to make the show. Dick says that's what he has to do, too, in Canada, for that cheapskate.
No Men Involved
Vicky from Memphis, an itinerant teacher of blind children, discovered DGW all by herself. No men involved. She wants to tell Leo and the world how to get a good deal on a .Mac account.
Memphis, one of Leo's favourite songs is Walking To Memphis by Marc Cohn, muses Leo.
Mad Minute
Spotlight. Interview of Dick De on his latest book on dinosaurs.
Listen to Episode 190
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Franklin Rex Handheld
Early PDA
Link: The Gadgeteer
The Rex started life with Rolodex in about 1997, which sold it to Franklin Electronics, and ultimately it went over to Xircom. The size of a credit card, the Rex was an early form of the PDA, but input was difficult. It had to be done via a desktop computer, and it fit right into a PC card slot. Small screen, monochrome and no backlighting. $150 back then. The rise of the Palm Pilot ensured the Rex's demise.
Polaroid SX70
R T Cragen from Brooklyn, New York writes in to say that medical examiners still take Polaroid pictures (Episode 70), because it's difficult to manipulate Polaroid pictures.
The podcast that makes its own gravy ...
Leo brags, "We were Number 1 on Podcast [Alley]. That's all we care about. So now, the rest is gravy. It make its own gravy, this podcast." This is to become their new slogan.
Listen to Episode 95
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