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Category: Gadget

This subject covers reviews of or a comment on a gadget or some technology

  • Hood Ornament

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    From Top 10 Gadgets for the Rich

  • HP33E

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    In yesterday’s post I referred to my old calculator. I found it.

  • Learnings from a coffee maker

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    Learnings from a coffee maker

    In that nebulous period between the slide rule and the PC reigned the portable, hip-mountable personal calculator. These machines evolved from being ones capable of performing simple calculations to being fully programmable. I had an HP calculator which ported many buttons and keys. Additionally, many of the keys were multi-function, meaning one could change the…

  • Durch Machen

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    Many years ago my dear cousins introduced me to a local custom (I was living with them in Berchtesgaden at the time), they referred to as Durch Machen. It involved staying up all through the night. That was then and this is now. These days staying up beyond 9:30 is pretty tough for me. I…

  • Stellarium

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    I came across the Open Source Gift Guide, where I found a number of interesting things, including an Open Source Planetarium called Stellarium. It run on Windows, Mac and Linux. Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your…