Archive for Gadgets
Every so often, I get it into my head that I desperately need a tiny printing press. At which point I go through a mental process (and series of web searches) that goes something like this: I could buy a Speedball Press or other small art press. Art, ink, paper, squeeze them together—boom! printing! …But […]
I see that it was about a year ago that I first tried out Bose Hearphones: directional sound-canceling/amplifying earbuds. Specifically, you can use them to turn up the volume on the world around you, and/or to cancel sound coming from certain directions. I most often have them set so that sound from in front of […]
My latest toy is a Parrot Mambo Fly mini-drone. I found it in a Wirecutter article about best inexpensive drones, and ordered it from Amazon (via the Wirecutter affiliate link). And I love it. I’m a near-total beginner; my only previous drone experience consisted of (1) a tiny drone I bought in the UK years […]
A month or so ago, a carton of milk in my fridge went bad a couple of days before the sell-by date. A couple weeks later, the same thing happened again, this time with an unopened carton. Around the same time, half of an avocado went moldy in my fridge. That had never happened before, […]
FOGcon attendees: Saturday morning in the game room, from 10:30 to 11:45, I’ll be hosting a “gadget and device petting zoo.” I’ll bring a bunch of cool and fun toys and devices to let people try out, but it doesn’t have to be just my stuff; if you have things you think other people would […]
The other morning, I woke up with an idea for what could be a nifty tech toy: reminder tags. I'm...
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, at Wilbur Middle School, the school's computer lab had a couple of...
I recently learned about a hot new toy: the spinner fidget toy. You hold it between thumb and finger...
Late in 2015, I read an issue of Destinies (a “paperback magazine”) from 1980; it included a piece by Jerry...
I bought an iPhone 6+, mainly because it's almost exactly the size that I've been wanting for an ebook reader...
Mat Honan wore Google Glass for much of 2013; in an article for Wired, he talks about what it's like...
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...