Your name in lights! Well, actually in LCD letters!

Friday, July 17^th, 2009 Netcast 875

This was a neat electronic gadget from Brookstone. It's was ideal for the desk of a gadget lover. Yes, the programmable liquid crystal display office nameplate! It has two sides. One side displays a name and job title, or anything you wish. I programmed mine to say: "Dick DeBartolo, The Giz Wiz". (Actually I think I ended up with "Dick De - The Giz Wiz" because using my full name put me over the 20 letter maximum.) Once the name/title side was programmed, it scrolled the info across the front. You could take this fun device from job to job and change your title as you wished. It’s a bit tedious to program names and titles via the three buttons on the bottom. You had to scroll through the entire alphabet looking for the letters you needed, but it got a little easier as you went along. If you didn’t feel like showing your name and title, you could turn the device around. The other side of this LCD nameplate showed time, date and year. It’s powered by 4 AA batteries. This was available at Brookstone in the 2001-02 time period and sold for $40. I thought this was a reasonable price for a device that would get folks in your workplace talking. It’s no longer available and very difficult to find info about it on the web.

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