4 posts tagged “mike”
VCR Plus
TV Programme Code for VCR
Link: VCR Plus
Audible Jingle
Geoff Smith has made an "Audible Pick of the Week" jingle for TWiT. Check out his ringtones on thegeoffsmith.com/.
Keyboard Cleaning
Mike of Eagle River, Alaska took Leo's advice to heart and put his keyboard into the dishwasher, let it dry for a few days, and even put it in the oven. The result upon reconnection? Sparks flew.
Listen to Episode 560
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Fisher-Price FP3 Player
Kid-Tough MP3 Player
Link: Fisher Price
The Kid-Tough FP3 Player is an MP3 player for children, with storage of about 30 songs, SD card slot. Big control buttons. Choice of "Song" or "Story". Fisher Price has an FP3 Online Store for downloading further songs and stories for children.
Leo Spooner
Leo did a spoonerism (and more) in introducing the Giz Wiz as Dick BeDarpolo.
Happy Birthday ...
... to the Giz Wiz himself; and Leo's 50th is coming up on 29 November.
Showbiz for Leo
Fritz from Milwaukee, loyal DGW subscriber since Episode 1, has written in about Dick's dog, and suggests a gadget for Dick, the S3 Lighted Pooper Scooper from Innovative Pet Solutions. Dick's own solution is a paper plate.
Mad Minute
Alfco's new detergent.
Listen to Episode 174
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Verticon
Mid-Air Combat Game
Link: Verticon Warriors
A game designed by Wild Planet for mid-air combat. The combatants are the coloured balls (with their own "weapons"). You and your opponent each choose your own colours, start the game, and a stream of air will come out from the game stand. The ball that gets knocked outside the air stream and consequently falls to the ground loses.
It's best to see Verticon in action. Watch Dick's demonstration on Call For Help Episode 448 on Google Video. Start at about 9 min 55 sec into the show.
After the demo on Call For Help, Leo's technical assistant/grippe Mike loved it so much that he kept it for himself, even though Leo wanted to give it to his son Henry.
First email from Luxembourg - Graham says love the show. Dick says half of Luxembourg listens to DGW.
PAM
Robert Fernandez wrote from the Philippines, introducing the PAM, a pedometer, but distribution of the product in the States has been stopped.
Mad Minute
News, or History Repeats Itself.
Listen to Episode 171
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Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Gamer's Keyboard
Link: Logitech
The Logitech G15 is a large keyboard designed for gamers with many programmable keys for special gaming or other commands, and LED backlit LCD. The LED screen can be programmed to display in-game information or data from other applications. Or use the LCD screen as convenient digital clock when you're not using the computer. There's an analogue clock display option too.
DGW reaches new heights
Audience has reached 87 million in the US and 1.2 billion worldwide.
Wacky Gadgets from the Audience
Listeners have started emailing Dick about weird gadgets, such as the Nokia-Logitech cellphone-mouse, the Availabot, and a Japanese baseball player (Tsuyoshi Shinjo) wearing a scrolling LED belt buckle. At the end of August, anyone who has a weird gadget published on Dick's website can enter a draw for Kingston Data Traveller II Plus with Migo Software.
Auction Result for Model 100
Oh, no! Leo's bid was beaten by a buck.
The Sinclair
Mike from Folsom, California wants to donate his Sinclair computer to Dick's Gadget Warehouse.
Mad Pen
A Swedish edition of a Mad pen went for $686 on eBay.
Dick and Leo get rich ...
Frank Barnako writes in a column in CBS MarketWatch that TWiT, which has about 4 million downloads a month, should be making $1 million a year!
Alfred E Neuman needs a blog
That's what Leo says. In due course, Alfred does get one, at My Space, World Of Mad. Leo has a blog here on Vox, too, at leoville.vox.com.
Coming Soon: The Key Buoy
Dick has just been to a marine accessories show and is going to test a gadget called the Key Buoy (coming up in Episode 149).
Credit to Paul Minshall
The new Gravy Jingle was composed and recorded by Paul Minshall from Vancouver.
TuVAlu
A listener writes in to correct Dick and Leo: Tuvalu should be pronounced tu-VA-lu, not TU-va-lu.
Another record
At 21 minutes and 45 seconds, this overtakes Episode 103 as the longest DGW so far.
Listen to Episode 119
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Check out the wacky gadgets below: Nokia-Logitech Cellphone mouse (Pyrofer), Nokia-Logitech LCD mouse (Metku.net), Availabot (Schulze & Webb), scrolling LED belt buckle as worn by Tsuyoshi Shinjo in action (about half-way through the video).
