Giz Wiz Show Fan Beckee sends us a "What The Heck Is It? Gadget.

I peeked in the box, so I knew what it was. Leo couldn't guess correctly, but got close. The gadget is the Mobile Brando Sim Card Back-up device!

Here's the description from the company website:

Backs-up and restores phonebook data from SIM card

Memory: 16KB - 500 telephone records (2 different SIM Cards data Storage), each record lenght is 15 letters limited for name, and 20 digit limited for phone number

Password lock & phonebook viewing

Calendar display

Support data exchange among different SIM cards

Data can be added up from one SIM Card to another SIM Card

User-friendly operation interface supported Device independent, No PC or PDA required. The device is accordance with ISO / IEC 7816-3, GSM11.11 and GSM11.12 standard. It can suport 3V SIM card and R-UIM card. It looks like it is no longer availible

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Calling Dick Tracy, Your Casio Wrist Camera is Ready!

I talked about this device on one of the very early Dick's Gadget Warehouse spot. I hate to throw them out, so I have them to Leo for his mini old-gadget museum at the TWiT Brick House. 

It's the Casio WQV1-1CR Wrist Camera Watch. Like many watches this one tells time, has 5 alarms, a stopwatch, a countdown timer, and an hourly chime if you want it. But then it gets different from other watches. It also has a digital camera with 1 MB of memory. Shooting at a truly pretty low resolution of 120x120 grayscale, it was enough memory to store about 100 pictures. The Normal Mode records the 16-grayscale monochrome image that appears on the monitor screen of the Wrist Camera. The Art Mode produces "artful" two-tone images and the Merge Mode combines two different images into a single image like the images weren’t small enough to big with. There's also Visual Data Bank feature for storage of portrait, name, and phone number records. After you record an image you can input up to 24 characters of text. There was also infrared data transfer with/to a computer or another Wrist Camera. But it's limited a bit by the fact that the IR transfer is Casio's proprietary system. You can upload images to your computer for editing and archiving, and download them back to the Wrist Camera when you need to take them somewhere. You could even use your images as screen savers but who would ever want to use 120x120 image for that. About $200, plus $50 for the IR kit so you could upload photos to the computer. Later on they were bundled together for the $199.99. It didn’t create a ton of sales.

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Video the week. This week it's our first viewer submission!

It's a 'Gadget Warehouse Videio' and if from Dr. Mom, a big fan of the show, a star in the TWiT chat room. Dr. Mom finds an old gadget that she only used for a short time, but still hangs onto. Her video is called the e-holster, AKA the gadget most likely to get you taken down by a SWAT team. And as Lil, AKA Dr. Mom noted in her video, this device is still around. Here's info from the company website: The e-Volve Gadget Shoulder Holster is the perfect wallet holster and the ultimate in gadget holsters. This new shoulder holster is an evolutionary "carry all" shoulder holster that allows you to get your iPhone case (and all your other personal electronic gadget cases) off your belt, out of your pockets and into a comfortable "carry all" shoulder holster. This new gadget holster is designed to conceal, protect and carry an iPhone, a cell phone (or other electronic gadgets), all items normally kept in a wallet, a passport, and loose pocket items such as keys and change creating the ultimate in shoulder holsters.

Dr. Mom's Video of the week: http://youtu.be/bqRJn_uwWsg

If you want to risk wearing an eHolster, they're $39.99 here:

http://www.eholster.com/gadget-shoulder-holster.html 

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Be part of the new (not) improved Giz Wiz Show!

The Weekly Daily Giz, formerly known as the Daily Giz Wiz, is changing again! 

Starting with the 1st broadcast, which was live from the TWiT Brick House, on Tuesday, July 24th, it will simply be called The Giz Wiz. 

The format will still be loose (formless, even) but they'll something different about it. Rather than Leo and I taking all the glory (ha!) we're going to let you, the listeners and viewers, share the glory (blame) for the show. Yes, we want to incorporate your videos, your thoughts, and even some of your gadgets in the new netcast!

Here's what we're looking for:

Videos -- two to three minutes along - in the following categories:

I bought a piece of crap! Did you buy something you ended up hating? We won't get you a refund, but we might be able to give a platform to vent your disappointment. Remember, "family friendly" language applies.

I Invented This! Do you invent something? (Or did a friend or relative invent something.) We can't market it for you, but we can help get the word out. Show us what it is, and how it works. Even if it's a prototype, you can get our (and the audience) reactions. 

My Gadget Warehouse! Okay, so you don't have a warehouse. It doesn't matter. Just tell us about your favorite old gadget. When and where you bought it, and why you're still hanging on to it. 

Post them on YouTube and send us the link! We'll do the rest.(Or possibly nothing, but that's unlikely.) Remember, video should be just 2 to 3 minutes long. Low production value is fine. Even welcomed, so our stuff doesn't look too bad by comparison. We've set the bar low. Don't trip over it. 

An important note from Lillian Banchik, Dr. Mom in the chatroom regarding video submissions:

Just a quick comment/suggestion.  I was checking with Jason (Giz Wiz producer) to see if the production quality of the video I did was crappy enough & he said that he'd never got the e-mail with the link. I'd used the 'share video' e-mail link from inside YouTube & apparently that address is being stripped out by their spam filters.  I sent another direct e-mail from my own account & he got that fine so you might want to add to your blog post not to use the 'send e-mail' button directly from the YouTube page to send in videos.

Thanks, Lil, you actually just told them!

Suggestions for the show? We'd like them to!

We even have a producer now, Jason Howell. Yep, we're spreading the blame on everyone! (Let's see if Jason's career can survive producing a show this low.)

Our email address: gizwiz@twit.tv  

We want to hear from you.  

Did I mention -----?

If we use your video on The Giz Wiz, you're going to receive the current issue of MAD magazine and a 30+ year old Alfred E. Neuman picture, both autographed by MAD's Maddest Writer, The Giz Wiz.

Now will you think about making a video for the new (unimproved) Giz Wiz?