Episode 1075

CES and Rock Gadgets
Leo used to joke that the CES is where you find a lot of useless gadgets in rocks.  Perhaps the Datawave Wireless Rock Speaker WRS10 was one of them.

Rock Speakers
College-Bound Gadgets
In Episodes 1066 and 1067, Leo talked about the colleges Abby has applied to.  Nick Kay is also sending his son to college this fall, and suggests that Leo should cover gadgets for school-children to take to school on a couple of TTTTs.  Abby is now thinking that maybe she will take a gap year, which Dick dubs the “goof-off year”.

Moving to Saturday
The live recording of the Daily Giz Wiz will be moved to Saturday, starting on 24 April 2010 at about 14.15 Pacific time after Leo’s radio show.  This is partly to accommodate a new TWiT anchor who will take over some of Leo’s shows, whose name cannot yet be revealed.

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Episode 1074

A Gadget for Disphagia
Listener John Stewart has suggested today’s gadget for the Daily Giz Wiz.  Four months ago his mother-in-law started having difficulty swallowing pills.  He found the VitaCarry Handheld Power Pill Grinder for people with dysphagia.  DrMom, the Chatroom’s in-house physician, warns that it’s not suitable for time-release pills.

Leo’s Diet
Leo’s diet is not working.  His Withings readings are going up.  He’s going to give the latest KFC epic a miss – the Double Down that will make you double up.

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Episode 1073

The Shape of Things to Come
TWiT started out as a small room in the TWiT Cottage and slowly expanded to take up the entire Victorian house.  Dick still remembers the first time he saw Leo on Skype in what used to be Cavanagh Inn, when Leo’s desk was empty.  Now TWiT is going to take up more space in the building next door which is part of the same 2-building complex.  It will be called the Giz Wiz Gazebo.

Who has the Dumbest Fans?
Dick was listening in on the recording of net@night earlier and heard them discuss Tom Scott’s Stupid Fight – which measures the stupidity of fans of celebrities.  Leo’s fans, it seems, are pretty dumb.

Narcolepsy
Listener RH discovered the Daily Giz Wiz from Episode 970 onwards, downloaded all the old episodes and now listens to the old shows whenever he can.  RH has narcolepsy and his condition has fast deteriorated even since.

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Episode 1072

A Spanking Letter
Randy Cola from Long Beach chastises Leo for calling Dick “Dickie De” instead of “Dick De”.  Dick explains that people at MAD call him Dick De, but Dickie De is a bastardised version to which he deigns to respond.  Does one say “safe deposit box” or “safety deposit box”, and “non” or “nun”?  Randy has listened to every episode of the show since Episode 1, and he can genuinely say that he “sort of” likes the show, but seriously he likes the way Dick and Leo improvise on the show.  It reminds him of good old-fashioned humour.

Podcast Award
The statuette for the Podcast Award the show won has finally arrived, thanks to Todd Cochrane.  Dick and Leo won in the comedy category.  See Episode 981.

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Episode 1071

MAD Magazine Clock on eBay Auction
Dick has decided to put his MAD Magazine Clock (Episode 1065) on auction on eBay.

Andy Warhol Giz Wiz Hommage
Dick shows off his Andy Warhol style Giz Wiz Hommage T-Shirt today, from Sue McAllister of Color Spot Printing.  You can get the same or other gizwiz-themed T-shirts from gizwizgarb.com.

Giz Wiz-Themed T-Shirt
Online Gadget
Rob M Lansing from Michigan listens to so many TWiT shows that he uses an online service called Podshifter to help speed up the podcasts.  Another listener called Devon Blaugh suggested the same service back in Episode 929.  Leo gives the same comment.  Although Podshifter is a good service, TWiT doesn’t get the numbers for downloads through Podshifter (as they don’t go through the podtrac redirect).  The iPod already has the speed-up function and that’s what he suggests listeners do if they have an iPod.

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