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Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum

posted by on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:06PM   
from the obsolescence-was-never-so-fun dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Verge bids farewell to tech writer and editor Walt Mossberg by talking to him about his favorite bits of gadgetry.

Walt Mossberg is retiring this year — he's already written his last column, hosted his last Code Conference, and taped the final episode of Ctrl-Walt-Delete in front of a live audience in New York. But Walt's also assembled an impressive collection of notable gadgets over his two-decade run as a reviewer and columnist, and we asked him to talk us through some of the more notable items as he cleared out of his office.

This isn't everything — there's far too much for that. But there's nothing quite like Walt talking about gadgets and what they mean, and we tried to pick a few that defined their moments in a way few products now seem to do.

[There are 16 tech items in the linked story's photo — how many can you identify? --martyb]

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• Old Turd isn't Dead Yet Old Turd isn't Dead Yet (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:16PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:16PM (#526247)

  Still stinking up the place like a loose stool that clogged the shitter.

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• Re:Old Turd isn't Dead Yet (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @12:11AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @12:11AM (#526268)

  yeah that guy... the fact he got replaced by farhad manjoo at the NYT pretty much summed up why i don't read tech stuff in major publications.

  enthusiast users in a world of wizards, helping people consume more products.

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