Episode 999
January 7, 2010 Tiny MP3 Players
Think Geek's Micro Sport Japanese MP3 Player
Dick and Leo have covered many MP3 Players before, but perhaps the closest (apart from the more recent iPod Shuffles) in size to today's Micro Sport MP3 Player was the elegantly designed MobiBLU DAH-1500i (which despite its size managed to have an OLED display), in Episode 17.
MobiBLU DAH-1500i - see Episode 17
The Dyslexic Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Apart from GizWizBiz Caps and other goodies, you can now get, from Dick's website, Dick's recipe for his very special Pineapple Upside Down Cake, which Leo calls the dyslexic version of the recipe. Of course, here on Dick's site you can also get links to the right gadgets, to avoid the sort of mistake Leo made about his La Crosse charger.
Before Kevin Selle began pondering about the weather …
Late in the evening on that fateful day, 19 February 2006, Kevin Selle was not applying his brains to the wintry weather. No, not yet. Instead, he was pondering about this upcoming internet-delivered programme to be called the Daily Giz Wiz podcast, which was to be aired the following day.
He wondered if this show could reach Episode 1000. Probably not. But with the credentials of its two fantastic hosts Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte, the show promised to be a no-fooling-around, cutting-edge, serious-as-can-be and peerless look into the future of technology. It would be the type of tech journalism that would finally let him into the world of wonderful gadgetry such as a dispenser of toothpicks maybe, or, with any luck, even such life-saving, world-changing materials as … titanium?
Kevin even briefly indulged in the hope that there might be the odd jingle, but he managed to check himself before he let his imagination get the better of himself.
And then, “Would they take a letter from a listener?” Kevin wondered, but realised immediately that the hosts would be far too busy and important to be trifled with riff-raffs like himself.
Yet Kevin’s thoughts moved on, to the possibility of occasionally revisiting the hallowed history of technology. But that would require a compulsive hoarder who would have needed nothing less than a warehouse to store the accumulation of gadgets over the years, if anyone were to remain marginally sane and not live like the Collyer Brothers. Surely that’s not possible.
It all seemed too much to ask for, but Kevin had the prescience to dare to dream (and a very agile tongue that has stayed firmly in his cheek). His every prayer has been answered by 999 episodes of the Daily Giz Wiz. And so may it be.
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