Am I Cool Or Bull....? The "show and tell" show

Expose Yourself. again.

The camp playground for Gadgetphiles and Gizmoholics (active, recover, and wannabe)

Bring your gizmo (doesn't have to be electronics), Become a competitor - add your name to a category

On Thursday evening after dinner we are going to run Olympics of Gizmos. There will be 4 categories :

First Category -For individual participants: who has the COOLEST Gadget in each product type!! and Why!

There will be a number of product lines: Cell phones, PDA, laptops, digital cameras. Geiger counters, GPS, electric chairs, robots, mp3 players, Ipods, electronic games, old calculators, and any other kind of gadget you wish to offer and bring with you. . In order to participate you must have the product with you.

Those who are willing to compete in each product type, will be given 2 minutes each, during which they will have a chance to explain passionately why their gizmo is the best in the category . the most convincing one will be the winner for the category. Winner for each category will be elected by popular analog on-line voting (level of applauds).

Add your name here, Add a category

COOL GADGETS

• So, Mac or Pc (or why everybody praises mac and buys pc?) - And will the Mac Mini change that? Shoshannah Forbes <Enter name>
• MP3 Players <Enter name>
• Cell Phones (Uri Baruchin: Nokia7650, Edo Amin: Treo, Rafram Chdaddad: Kyocera 7135, Eli Marmor: AirCard 580 (a 2.4Mb/s cellular PCMCIA NIC), waiting for the MDA IV (the first VGA PocketPC Phone Edition), Yuval Tal (bringing his I-Mate Jam with him)
• Digital Cameras (Uri Baruchin Olympus D-460, Dov Alfon Kyocera SL300r, )
• PDA's (Uri baruchin Tungsten T, Edo Amin: Treo) Rex - Guy Vardi,
• Gaming Platform Yuval Tal will explain the process of building your on arcade machine at home
• Laptops (Uri baruchin Thinkpad T-41, Eli Marmor Toshiba 1Kg Portege R100 running XP and Linux simultaneously (though my real dream is the 785gram Sony Vaio X505...), )
• Wi-fi Hot Spot
• Personal Information Managers (hardware, software, whatever) (Edo Amin will present three Personal Information Management tools I bought my Palm for (Edo: please present the software that you wrote about in the newspaper - Eli Marmor), )
• Laundry folder: Flipfold - Guy Vardi
• Electric Chairs - The Giant Vibrator ..... for console games - self built - Zvika Netter

• Microdisplays - Assaf Topaz will present a prototype of a Near Eye Display.
• Electric Kids Toys - Eden Shochat Will bring a remote controlled personal flying saucer sold for under 40$

• Electronic games
• GPS
• Personal gieger counters
• Mother-in-law (can be brought only to the olympics session )
• remote control toys - D-Gurdian, The most primitive desktop alarm - Ariel Shoham
• T.V remote controls - A comunity based All in One learning remote control with Web Based Programming - Zvika Netter
• Aluminum Foil Deflectors - Mind Control Protection for Paranoids
• Foldable bicycles
• HTPC <>

• Competitors in this category will advocate the most annoying product, gadget , software , machine, book .

  don't forget - bring your stuff!

  add your name and the item you wish to describe :

  • PDA's (Eden Shochat: The Phillips Nino: WinCE 1.0, 5 clicks to create a new contact and less than 50% handwriting recognition precision. What more can you ask?)

  

• ADD YOUR SUGGESTION HERE

  Third category - for individuals OR teams - GiZMOTHON ! who has the winning COLLECTION of gizmos?

  in this category , competitors ,who can be either individuals or few people which form a team, will bring from home at least six different gqdgets . the winner will be selected on the basis of how bizzare ,imaginative, original , different and special his collection is. competitors are asked to post here what gadgets they are considering bringing (but you will be welcomed even if you dont post it - just bring it with you). each competitor will be given two mintues to advocate his collection ,which he must present in the olympics

  list your gizmo collection here (and bring it to the camp) :
  

  • ADD YOUR SUGGESTION HERE
  • Here's quite a collection... but does it count?
  • VIDEO OF THE BEST GEEK GADGET COLLECTION As the "Camp california telepresence director" (Tom Hale) I've got a wild card entry for the "winning collection of gizmos". I am nominating Phil Torrone, an editor/contributor at Make magazine as the North American dark horse candidate. As befits our "telepresence" theme for Kinnernet, Phil will not be in Ohalo live, but here's a short video with commentary (1 minute, flash streaming video, DSL speeds) of Phil Torrone's current gadget collection in his house. Make sure you hit the "play button" in the lower left of the video to start it and turn up your speakers! If everything works out, we'll be sharing this in the Macromedia Kinnernet session as well (fingers crossed that we have good bandwidth to Israel from North America!) Not to be too bold, but I'll happily collect the prize for winning collection on Phil's behalf, especially if it means that next time I can come to Kinnernet in person! Here's a pic Phil Torrone on one of his gizmos, his segway (watch the gadget collection video here....)

  

  Fourth category - Memorabilia (Hey it is not junk, it is part of history)

  Competitors in this category will advocate the most nostalgic artifacts ever!(Tshirts, posters, stickers, inflating dolls, etc)

  • ADD YOUR SUGGESTION HERE
  • MY working(?!) 16K ZX Spectrum- Zvika Netter

  Can somone PLEASE bring a ZX81 Spectrum, and an Amiga 500 (I had to trade those when I was a poor kid : ) . Also a Vic20, Texas Instruments TI99, Dragon 32, atari 400 will have me wet my eyes ...

  • My working Gil Rimon
  • A Little Professor from god knows when with a slight LCD problem - there is none...[nimrod lehavi]
  • The all talked about Fisher space pen for writing in space / under water etc - (russian astronauts, pencil? ring any bells?) [nimrod lehavi]

  

  Add a new product line ! Any other interesting gadget?

  My gracefully aging Erika. (Edna Yaffe)
  
  

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  Disc On Key is way over priced [Nimrod]

  

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  Hanan Cohen - a booklet from the Bubble Era(TM). Items include masage, dietition, pocket miney for buying books and CD's etc...