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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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• ''whenever I read Remington, I think "typewriters" (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @07:04PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @07:04PM (#526573)

  I think of the widow with the weird house that was never finished.

  Winchester Mystery House [wikipedia.org]
  In 1884 she purchased an unfinished farmhouse in the Santa Clara Valley and began building her mansion. Carpenters were hired and worked on the house day and night until it became a seven story mansion. She did not use an architect and added on to the building in a haphazard fashion, so the home contains numerous oddities such as doors and stairs that go nowhere, windows overlooking other rooms and stairs with odd-sized risers. Many accounts attribute these oddities to her belief in ghosts.

  Superstitious people with excess wealth make for weirdness.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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