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VIP Hybrid-8 SEG
Video Editing Machine
Link: biocomp
Dick's Gadget Warehouse
The Hybrid 8 SEG (Special Effects Generator) Video Duplicator from VIP (Video Interface Products) allowed the user to hook up 2 video cassette players as the inputs, to output to a 3rd video cassette recorder. You could edit your videos, and add special effects such as split screens and cross-fades. It even had a joystick-style wired remote control. You would end up with wires and cables all over the place. Not even Leo, who's always quick to click the BUY button online, wants to get it.
Long Term Investment
Dick spent thousands of dollars paying rent each month for the Gadget Warehouse and it's payback time. His warehouse contents are now worth hundreds of dollars ! Had Dick not made this long term investment, as Leo observes, we would all be much poorer in spirit now.
The Problem with Dick's Imagination
Dick's creative talent comes at a price. He can always imagine a need for a gadget which turns out to be another surplus to requirement. Hence the VIP Hybrid 8 and the accumulation at the Gadget Warehouse, which is in the process of downsizing.
Early Adopters
Gadget manufacturers count on the estimated 10,000 early adopters who want to be the first to try things out. They used to make an outlet such as Sharper Image or Hammacher Schlemmer the exclusive seller, say for the first 3 months, to maintain the price to allow manufacturers to recoup their costs, before releasing the products on wider distribution later (and when the price would start getting cut).
The GigaPan EPIC
Anthony Devito Junior, usually just Tony Devito, writes in to tell Dick and Leo about the Gigapan, and the GigaPan EPIC, a robotic camera mount for rotating and swivelling the camera sideways and up and down to take multiple pictures of a scene, to be stitched up in due course for making gigapixel panoramas, which you can then upload to the Gigapan website. The EPIC works with most point-and-shoot cameras (see list), and the EPIC 100 is coming soon which will fit larger point-and-shoots.
The GoldenPan
Dick doesn't have the Gigapan, but he has the George Foreman Gigapan frying pan with built-in memory. Leo is tempted by the GigaPan EPIC. He might use it for the Great Wall of China when he visits it in July this year. If Dick had the GigaPan, he would take a panorama of a railroad yard. However, Dick wouldn't be getting it, as he has something better - Dane Golden on a swivelling chair.
It's Just Another Name
Dick has been making up names for Petaluma's Butter and Eggs Day, such as Butter and Margarine, Wine and Swill, Food And Drug Parade. The latest is Rum and Coca Cola Festival.
Dick spent thousands of dollars paying rent each month for the Gadget Warehouse and it's payback time. His warehouse contents are now worth hundreds of dollars ! Had Dick not made this long term investment, as Leo observes, we would all be much poorer in spirit now.
The Problem with Dick's Imagination
Dick's creative talent comes at a price. He can always imagine a need for a gadget which turns out to be another surplus to requirement. Hence the VIP Hybrid 8 and the accumulation at the Gadget Warehouse, which is in the process of downsizing.
Early Adopters
Gadget manufacturers count on the estimated 10,000 early adopters who want to be the first to try things out. They used to make an outlet such as Sharper Image or Hammacher Schlemmer the exclusive seller, say for the first 3 months, to maintain the price to allow manufacturers to recoup their costs, before releasing the products on wider distribution later (and when the price would start getting cut).
The GigaPan EPIC
Anthony Devito Junior, usually just Tony Devito, writes in to tell Dick and Leo about the Gigapan, and the GigaPan EPIC, a robotic camera mount for rotating and swivelling the camera sideways and up and down to take multiple pictures of a scene, to be stitched up in due course for making gigapixel panoramas, which you can then upload to the Gigapan website. The EPIC works with most point-and-shoot cameras (see list), and the EPIC 100 is coming soon which will fit larger point-and-shoots.
The GoldenPan
Dick doesn't have the Gigapan, but he has the George Foreman Gigapan frying pan with built-in memory. Leo is tempted by the GigaPan EPIC. He might use it for the Great Wall of China when he visits it in July this year. If Dick had the GigaPan, he would take a panorama of a railroad yard. However, Dick wouldn't be getting it, as he has something better - Dane Golden on a swivelling chair.
It's Just Another Name
Dick has been making up names for Petaluma's Butter and Eggs Day, such as Butter and Margarine, Wine and Swill, Food And Drug Parade. The latest is Rum and Coca Cola Festival.
The Handler
Hygiene Product
Link: The Handler
The Handler is essentially a hook to avoid contact with door handles. Capable of 60 lbs of pull, the hook of the handler is made of Nano Slivers which kills the most common types of germs.
Germ-o-phobic
Howie Mandel is one of those, and when Dick first met him, they shook hands by knocking closed knuckles. Another Howard, Howard Hughes, was famous for his fear of germs.
Old Time Candy
Tony Devito writes in, not about gadgets, but about Old Time Candy. Leo knows about the website and thinks he may have talked about it on Munchcast with Cammy Blackstone. In fact, it was Dick and Leo themselves who talked about it, at the start of Episode 308.
Listen to Episode 476
Go to TWiT
Read Dick's Write-Up
Germ-o-phobic
Howie Mandel is one of those, and when Dick first met him, they shook hands by knocking closed knuckles. Another Howard, Howard Hughes, was famous for his fear of germs.
Old Time Candy
Tony Devito writes in, not about gadgets, but about Old Time Candy. Leo knows about the website and thinks he may have talked about it on Munchcast with Cammy Blackstone. In fact, it was Dick and Leo themselves who talked about it, at the start of Episode 308.
Listen to Episode 476
Go to TWiT
Read Dick's Write-Up
Fly Fusion
"Pentop" Computer
From the makers of the FlyPen (Episode 14), the Fly Fusion is a "pentop computer". You use the Fly Fusion pen to write or draw on Fly Paper or the Fly Notebook, and everything is then recorded into the memory in the pen. Connect the pen to the computer with the cable provided and upload what you've done to the computer.
There are various software applications or modules available and the modes of operation and interaction vary from one to another, but the basic idea is that the pen stores what you've written or drawn and sends it to the computer (as data storage or instructions to the computer).
The modules include language translations, homework tools, games, music studio.
DGW Marathon
Jay Metzko in California listened to 13 episodes in a row while running on an AFC Half-Marathon and he smiled through it, but usually he listens to DGW while washing the dishes.
Listen to Episode 386
Read Dick's Write-Up
Go to TWiT
SeeEye2Eye
Eye Contact Enabling Device for Video Chat/Teleprompter
Link: Bodelin
SeeEye2Eye enables direct eye contact with the person you are chatting with in a video chat or conference. It is placed over your own webcam, and a set of mirrors reflect the video image of your friend from your screen on to a beam-splitting glass which sits in front of the webcam, which you can see. The beam splitter, while showing the video image of your friend, at the same time allows light rays of your own image through to be captured by your webcam. With extra software, SeeEye2Eye can also be used as a teleprompter.
Karaoke Version of Letters Jingle
Dave of Birmingham, Alabama, wants Dick and Leo to sing along to the Letters Jingle. Sadly they oblige.
DGW Anniversary Coming Up
Tomorrow is another TTTT, but also the First Anniversary of DGW.
Listen to Episode 251
Go to TWiT
The Giz Wiz Home Page
Karaoke Version of Letters Jingle
Dave of Birmingham, Alabama, wants Dick and Leo to sing along to the Letters Jingle. Sadly they oblige.
DGW Anniversary Coming Up
Tomorrow is another TTTT, but also the First Anniversary of DGW.
Listen to Episode 251
Go to TWiT
The Giz Wiz Home Page
