TechStuff's Favorite Tech Gifts

writer Jonathan Strickland. Hey there, all right then, so time to talk about you know, this time of year we kind of get to uh wanting to talk about our favorite stuff. Yeah, because turns and easy and it gives hence to certain significant others and family members and friends of what to get us for Christmas or any other kind of holiday. It's Christmas for me. Yeah, Well, I mean I could say Hanakah, but let's I'm not Jewish.

Well there you go, but it's it's you know, it's all over the world now people are you see ads everywhere about stuff? You know, we could buy this stuff and electronic gizmos and gadgets. You know, our Baileywick is one of the biggest segments of the uh, the economy. Around this time of year, we do a lot of business so so. But but this year, we're not really doing a gift guide so much as we are talking

about some of the favorite things that Yeah. Yeah, we had a listener right in UM and unfortunately I have misplaced the email, but we had a listener right in and asked us behind the couch what our favorite tech gifts were actually our favorite pieces of tech total, but that's a huge category. So Chris came up with the brilliant idea, like, Hey, the holiday season is coming up, how we talk about the our favorite tech thingies that

we have received as gifts on the holidays? Yeah, and and part of the reason I did that was because some of the biggest tech stuff I've ever owned I never got as a gift, and I thought some of the coolest tech stuff I got wasn't really gadgety enough. So I figured this worked out. It'd be a little different with order to the geek squad. Right, we're not talking just about about gadgets or uh are we. We We opened up the category a little bit so that

it'll be a little easier. So let's take a little walk down memory lane and chat about some of the stuff that we got as UM We're gonna start with some stuff that we got as kids that kind of sort of falls into the toy slash tech line and uh and and work our way up from there. Now, we're not gonna obviously go year by year, because no, no, no, I would take too long. Chris and I have lived far too long for that. Yes, thanks a lot for pointing right now. God, I feel so old. Yeah, start

go to your first one. Okay. The first one I really wanted to bring up, uh was something um that I got under the tree at my grandmother's house when I was I think eight years old, And that would be Milton Bradley's Big Track and the Transport. Have you never seen this thing? I have no idea what you're talking about. I am impressed, you know, well, I am older than than Jonathan is. However, um, someone will right in and and and vindicate how cool this thing was.

Big Track was. Go ahead, it's it's t it's t R a K. However, um and Big Track was. And in my opinion, this totally fits into tech stuff though, because it was a programmable tank. It's sort of like a tank of the future. Look at that thing. Yeah, it was really cool. Um And it would allow you to do and it had like a nu merit keep had on them back on the top of it, and um it would allow you to give it a simple program like you could say, I want you to go left.

I don't know that it had a specific uh distance programmed into it. You had to kind of go, okay, I want you to go ahead five some things and turn left, and then I want you to go forward seven some things. And by trial and error, you could program it to go into the next room and shoot its little laser cannon at the dog, the television, your parents, uh, some random corner, and then you'd have to take it

back in reprogram it to turn the other direction. But it also came with a really cool transport which you could plug into the back and it was like a dump truck thing because you know, every robotic tank needs a dump truck thing that goes in the back. But you could also you know, go in, turn around, shoot at the dog and dump the three nerve balls that

you piled into the back of the transport. UM anyway, really cool basic programming thing and really techy sort of went along with the starboard, which I also got one of um no programming involved there. But it did have an accelerometer in it so that you know, because you turned it on and it made engine noises. And it was basically a little spaceship. Uh. And you can modify it by taking little spaceships on and off of it, you know, sort of vultron like you could plug it in.

But um, if you tilted it up, the the sound would get, you know, higher in pitch to make it sound like it wasn't climbing, or you know, you turn it down and it would go lower, so you could fly around the house annoy the living daylights out of

your parents. And uh, you know they were sort of related because we were both from Milton Bradley, now owned by a much larger company that starts with hasbro Um, but both neat tech gizmos I got as a kid, and I just I love those things throve my parents crazy. I still have I still have all of that stuff. You know what that makes me think of? What's that? Okay, I wasn't gonna start with this. Actually this wasn't even on my list. It was only because after hearing you

that it sparked a memory. Okay, Um, I have the Blue Army me fisto, rumble robot. I don't think I'm familiar with that, the rumble robots. First of all, I have to admit, rumble robots are not very old. You see what the picture looks like right there, that's him right there, So that that's totally not interesting to all you audio podcast people out there. So go look up me FISTO M E F I S t O, and that's a rumble robot. Um. All right. First of all,

interest a full disclosure. I got this gift maybe four years ago, so this is not a kid gift. This is a big kid gift. It's meant for little kids. But I have the mentality and emotional development of a little kid, so it worked out well. But this was a present to me from a friend of mine, a friend that he goes by the nickname oz Oz also has a rumble robot. Oz, by the way, is at

least six years older than I am. Actually he's older than that, but I'm going to be nice to oz Um and so Um, a person even older than I am, went out and bought rumble robots so that we could have robot fights. And that's what these things are. They're remote controlled rumble Rumble robots. They have UM an ability to uh both a physical attack and a little laser attack.

And the way that you determine how strong your robot is is you have elector cards that you scan, and you could scan up to I think it's three or four. I can't remember now, it's been a long time since we played with these UM, but you could scan three or four of these cards, which gives your robot certain abilities, like it will actually determine how fast it can move.

So if you have a speed of five, it's gonna go much faster than someone who has a speed of three and you so you could determine how hard it strikes, how fast it moves, how powerful it's laser is, how good its defenses are, and uh, and put your robot in battles with another robot. You could also buy supplemental armor and weapons, which I did so that I could

defeat my my hated opponent. UM. We really should have entitled this one Tech Toys, because I have a feeling where we've started a threat that we're just gonna go

through all the different toys that we've owned. Yes, this was this was a gift that a gift that my wife would say, it's the gift that keeps on taking as and it takes her sanity bit by bit as her husband that rolls the robot around and and uh essentially, when ever Oz was not over for us to have our robot Wars, I was using the Rumble robot to antagonize our dogs, which was hysterical alright. Anyway, that that

technically was not the one I was gonna start off with. Um. I was actually gonna talk about a collection of the stuff that I got as a kid that really got me kind of interested in technology and allay, So now I would I grew up in the in the late seventies early eighties, so I grew up just as the merchandizing craze began for for like, where the cartoons and the toys were really closely tied in together. So you know, started by Star Wars. Okay, so Star Wars Lucas he

hit on something brilliant. He managed to hit that merchandizing nail right on the head. So of course I did own a lot of Star Wars toys, including the Millennium Falcon, which I count as a gadget because it made noises and it was awesome. And I had uh you know, I had like a high interceptor at a Thai fighter had the X Wing fighter. Um, I didn't have a y Wing. I need to talk to my parents. And I have an ad AT either. That's what I always wanted, was one of the ad ats, the huge ad ats, yes,

the all terrain attack transports. Um did not have one. A friend of mine did though, and we we used to have amazing battles. So. But I also was a big human fan. I don't make apologies. I was a kid. I had no sense of taste. So I had a castle gray skull at a snake mountain. Uh. And I was a big Transformers fan, so I had lots of Transformers, which also kind of sort of count as gadgets, but not really because then you know, again, it was something

that got me interested in science fiction and gadgetry in general. Um, these toys. Yeah, and the robots, which literally led to my enjoyment of the Rumble robot. Um. But these were little, tiny building blocks upon which I began to build my obsession for gadgets in tech. I I just thought of something. They thank you for that, because I actually just thought of something that fits perfectly in that. Oh, dear lord, this is good. This is going to be like a

fifteen minute podcast. You know. I will mention it briefly. Do you remember those kids that you used to be able to buy at radio shack. I don't know if you could still do it, but the ones with the little springs and wires and basically they were a very simple computer and you could you attach you know, you attach a wire to spring six and oh, you know, you you move it over to other stuff. Now they have stuff like this and uh, you know, make magazine.

They have much more advanced versions of this where you can you know, basically pull the wires in and out and it's it's it's not the same type of thing. This was really aimed at kids. But you could make like a basic AM crystal radio receiver thing, and you could, you know, modify at different places. I haven't. I have no idea where that thing went. I have most of

my choice from childhood, but I don't have that. But I do remember getting that early on, probably when I was you know, uh, you know, ten years old or something like that. Yeah, right around that same time, same age, not the same time, but when I was about ten years old. Um, I got one of my favorite gadget gifts of all my childhood, which is weird concerning the fact that I never really developed a proficiency with it. It was a Cassio keyboard. The musical keyboard, not the

computer keyboard. We're talking about a a little electronic piano. Please tell me. It wasn't a little itty bittye with the It wasn't that. No, No, it was a model. It was a step up from that. Um No, it was that one definitely definitely had the horrible pre programmed electronic drum tracks. Yeah, and I can't remember. I can't remember what the demo song was anymore. But I could only play by ear and because I never learned to really play the thing. But I really enjoyed it. Um

and uh and I remember that. Uh. I was a big fan of learning different songs somehow. I mean, I think it's just a law that if you own a little electric keyboard, eventually, even if you've never heard the song before, you eventually learned how to play Heart and Soul. Yeah. I don't know how that happens, because that was one

of the songs I learned to play by ear. I don't ever remember hearing that song before I had the keyboard, and I don't know how the hell I I encountered it, but I learned how to play it, and thankfully it has replaced I mean, the Heart and Soul is at least timeless. When I was around a lot of people who were playing around with those, it was axel lef from. I did learn how to play that. I learned how to play the Empire March from the Impress dricks back

the Imperial March. Um. Yeah, I learned a few pretty lame songs. I also was very envious of my friend who lived down the street because he had one of the electronic keyboards that allowed you to record a a sound bite and then it would play it back at different pitches, which of course meant that we spent hours of fun giggling over saying naughty words into the synthesizer and then making it play it at chipmunk and uh

and like super stoner speeds. And you know, we have a whole lot of people who are are our younger listeners who are just going, dude, I could so totally do that. You just gave them all ideas. It's there's nothing like playing jingle bells using an expletive at different pitches as the only note through the whole thing. Okay, so I'm going to change the subject now, Okay, go ahead, I'm any of their parents. I'm actually about to start

giggling all over again. I'll bet you are. I wish I could remember the name of the manufacturer because it wasn't a brand name. But I got one of my very first portable cassette player. I got us a gift, and uh it, it's really cool because it's not cool now. It was really cool then because it had a cassette adapter that would allow it to receive radio. So you know, I could take out the tape and put in this adapter and you know, scroll a things sideways and it

would actually get radio, which was really cool. I used it for years and years to paint war off of it. Yes, it had paint. And were they actually broadcasting radio back then? Jonathan h Later it turned so ugly before the end of the podcast and the in the in the not too uh even distant past, it's probably five or six years well now, it's probably around two thousand, two thousand one.

I got a my last portable device that wasn't an all digital device would be the Reo volt player from Sonic Blue, which was would allow you to play discs like I had a couple of discmn that I bought, actually got one as a gift, you know, My very first discman was a gift. But the Sonic Blue was kind of cool because it would allow you to play to make a disc of MP three files, so you could listen to a you know, off the shelf CD, or you could listen to a CD of m P three's,

which until I got an iPod, was really useful. Yeah, um, that was kind of cool. It actually got stolen along with a pair of den On headphones, really awesome headphones that guy as a gift from my dad. Um and unfortunately those we're both stolen when my house was broken into. But anyway, those were all my music type gadgets together. Well, if I'm talking about music type gadgets, they're really only two that I can talk about. There were gifts. One was my very first CD player, which was a portable

CD player. You plugged headphones into it, it didn't you know, or you could plug it I guess you could have a male to male connector and plug it into an auxiliary for you know, some other radio. But it had no native speakers. It's just a little c CD player And uh, I got it. It was probably a couple of years after CDs came out. Like, guys, you gotta remember if you weren't around when compact disks first came out, Compact displayers, like all new technology, were pretty expensive. Um,

that was something where I really wanted one. But at the same time I knew that it was it was kind of an extravagant gift, so I felt badly about asking for one. But my parents did get me. They got me a refurbished uh portable CD player or Christmas gift, a couple a couple of years after the CD players had first hit the market, so still they're still in the fairly expensive rangel that they weren't extravagantly expensive at

that point. Um, and I think that gift, I think they ended up really liking that gift for me, because from on subsequent Christmas is I would ask them for um, classical music cd s, which I don't know if you've ever gone shopping for classical music CDs, but you can buy like fifty for a buck. I mean, it's crazy how many you can purchase, uh for a really cheap price. And so they were like, you know, my sister would be asking for a new computer, and I'd be asking

for you know, I would like this Broms collection. So uh so that ended up being the gift that kept on giving. But the other music present that I received was my first MP three player, which was a Creative Zen Touch twenty gigabyte. And you might have heard me talk about this once before, the Creative Zen Touch. It was what a heavy MP three player that thing was. I mean, it felt like a brick of lead, but

it was awesome. It held so much music. It was the first time I had ever had a device that could hold that much content, uh, you know, considering how small it was. And I had a little touch sensitive bar in the center that would allow you to scroll up and scroll down, although that did get a little wonky towards the end of its life. But that was a great device. I really enjoyed it, um despite the

fact that it did weigh just under a metric time. Yeah, actually that reminds me because um my, uh, you know, I wasn't actually done with my music gadgets the very last one was my my very first iPod, the click Wheel, the very last black and white, which is still running fine, thank you very much. Battery life is terrible when I haven't had it replaced. Unda, you can't even get through the whole song. It darnish um now, um, actually it's kind of hard to get through, and it got a

veto on a new iPods a long song. It approximately lasts about as long as your average German opera. No, I'm just just teasing now, um, but yeah, that was my my first all digital player and coincidentally, uh just before No, it was just after my my house was broken into. But my wife and I exchanged iPods that year, decided to well here's your here's your iPod. Well now we have a reason nice. Well now we got them engraved with our names, so sweet you know yea, So

now I'm going, okay, I need to recyclist. But it has my naming graved on. Darn now someone will know my name. Well you never know, you got it. You have to run it through the shredder and it it just match this big mess. Yeah, you definitely don't want people seeing how many like of the Wiggles songs you have on there or whatever. I do have wiggles songs. God, I was hoping you didn't. I was so hoping I also have children. This is true, all right. So so

game consoles. I've actually received three game consoles as gifts. Now I own more than three game consoles, but only three of them were presents. It could me me also, um. And then I also got a Sega Dreamcast, and I got the Sega Dreamcast after the Dreamcast was already a dead product. So but it didn't matter to me because the games were still awesome. You could pick up any used game form for a song. And also that was really embarrassing going in and singing to those people. Well,

but didn't get anything. I'm a ham like I care. I'll go in and sing anywhere. People have to stop me from singing here. Uh. And then the third one was the PlayStation two. Ah, yes, which I also got well after it had started to Uh well, I mean it's still they're still making games for it. So yes, yes, well I actually got mine. Uh. I bought my PlayStation two, but got one of the very last ones before they

went to the new slim design. Um. Yeah, the actually wasn't a gift around a holiday or anything like that. It was one of those things that I think my parents just decided to spring on me because they wanted to and nice an occasionally. Hey, you know what, surprise here it is, so it counts it's a gift. I also got a Sega Genesis as a holiday gift one year or so. That was kind of If any of these sounds unfamiliar to you, guys, because you're fourteen to

the end, are a lot of you who are four teens? Yeah, I go to the internet and look them up, and you can see what kind of crazy game systems these two old fogies like to play when they were kids. Have another older gadget too, but it's not a game system. What's that? Uh? I got my very first p D a Personal Digital assistant, uh when for a gift one year, which was the hand Spring Visor Deluxe, which ran on the old Palm operating system. So a p d A for those of you who don't know, it's like a

smartphone without the phone. Yeah, yeah, black and white. You know, I think, what's sixteen shades of gray? I don't know anyway, uh No, but it was no. It was my my introduction to the world of handheld computing because I hadn't ever had anything that was that advanced before. But you know, it was actually kind of a cool device UM because it allowed you to plug in cartridges with other programs

on it from other manufacturers. UM, something that I feel like kind of got underutilized by short of people, but nonetheless a nice idea. UM. And of course, Handspring went on to UH start the Trio line of smartphones and then later was acquired by the company who's founders founded both companies, Palm. You know, then Palem went on to do other smartphones and stuff like that. But anyway, my

very first PDA was a gift and that was very cool. Now, if even if we had just uh decided to restrict this to favorite games you've ever received as gifts, it would be an incredibly long podcast for me because I've received lots and lots of games as presents, which that's great because I love playing various computer and video games. UH. But I decided to narrow it down to my two

favorites which have a theme in common. See if you can spot it, there is Sid Meyers Pirates and this was the pirate game for the UM the Apple to actually I believe was the original one recent remake which I also owned for the Xbox UM. But no, this the original one, which I think was for the Apple too. I don't think it was for our PC. And then the second one was The Secret of Monkey Island. Do you spot the theme? Well? Should I be? Is this for me to spots this for our listenersers can totally

spot it. This is for you. It's a challenge for you. It's that challenge for them. They're smart. Well, see seeing as how that I I've never played either one of them. In um okay, Well, the the hint is in the title of one of the two games, and it's not Monkey Okay. Sid is There's nothing like playing a game of pirates. I was gonna say, though, isn't there aren't there monkeys and in Pirates? Though? No, not in the

original one. No. I mean maybe in some of the game aren't somewhere in the background, But no, there's no Like, it's not like Oregon Trail. It's not like you're sailing your trail. No. I'm just saying like, it's not like you're sailing between ports and you suddenly get a message saying your ship was beset by monkeys. It doesn't happen. No,

that would be awesome. So in the next Pirates game, said, if you're listening and your next Pirates game, make sure you have a moment where just on by random chance, like if you were struck by lightning or something, you will get a message that just says your ship was beset by monkeys. Maybe you lose like half the crew and all the bananas are gone or something like that. Um, so that's the only that's the that's the representative game I decided to choose. I mean again, the list itself

as exhaustive. I would take forever to go throw them all. But um yeah, if you guys haven't played sid Meyer's Pirates, there is a version out for a newer version out for computers and for the x the old Xbox, not the Xbox three sixty. Um, and there might be for other for the other platforms as well. It's just I happen to have it for the Xbox. It's a fun game. It's not quite the same one that I played back on the Apple two, but um it's it's really faithful

to the original and it's uh, it's it's interesting. The only thing that's weird is there's now a dance game included in the the new version where you have to you know, it's one of those we have to time the button press to to match what's on the screen that was not in the original version the original game, Okay, a little mini game inside of it. I'm trying to think of my favorite, just to just to choose one

game that was a gift. Um, I'll stick with the Sigemira theme, and I'm going to go with Civilization To, which was my introduction to SIV games, which I think it was a huge improvement over the first one. Yeah, and and a lot of people said that the three was sort of a disservice to fans of two. Yeah, two was great, and three felt I liked three, but I didn't like it as well as I like Too. And I haven't played for Yeah because I just simply

don't have. Tom Merritt dissed me when I when I said Civilization To with superior to Civilization and so Tom, this is just calling you out. You're wrong. Civilization Too was a superior game to the first Civilization. Well, I've never played Civilization one, so I will you know now, granted,

it did. It did still get a little irritating when you would use a tank to attack a pike like an Italian of people who all are armed with our pikes, and they would beat you, because occasionally that could happen and you're thinking, seriously, what did you do with that stick that destroyed this tank? Well, they do have little you know, maybe they found the exhaust port. Yeah, exactly. Look that exhaust port is got to be less than three ms wide. There's no way you can hit that.

You all know that I set him up for that, right night? Okay, okay, well you know many both ins died for this podcast returned too. My last, my last, my last present that I received. Um well, oh wait, well I get sticking with Star Wars really quickly. Um. You know I mentioned Star Wars early on in my childhood. So my parents, their their memories are long. Obviously, they remember back when I was a little wee lad enjoying my Chewbacca and uh that was not a youth, don't

write in. So they decided to give me a gift a few years ago. Um, you've seen the the lightsaber replicas, the ones that have the actual fluorescence where it lights up and makes all the noises and everything. I have one of those, and it is the most awesome toy ever. That same buddy I was telling you about the guy who got the robots, as I called him, over the day I got my my lightsaber and he drives up into the driveway and it's, uh, it's dusk, so the

lights are down. I fire that thing up and he's just like ah, and we're we revert to you know, eight year old boys. It's awesome and then you can't help but run around the neighborhood going wow, wow wow and terrorizing other kids. Well other kids. Well, as I said, we revert to that age. It happens. Um, yeah, you know back when Star Wars was first out. I I don't remember. This was a gift and it's certainly not very techy. I got an original Star Wars lightsaber. I

don't want these. The original. It was an inflatable vinyl tube that you know, sealed like a balloon and an attached to a flashlight. No. I had one of these two and it took I'd give it maybe six minutes before sprung a leak, and I could never find the I mean, we stuck that thing in a tub to try to you know, inflatable. If you've ever done this with a big schole tire, you know what I'm talking about.

You know, to put some soap on it, maybe on the seams, or you know, stick it underwater in the bathtub. Never could find the leak on that thing. I still have the flashlight. Clearly the force is weak for you, certainly weak with that toy. So did you want to mention anything that you wanted? Yeah, we'll do this really quickly because this is running long. So this year, what I would like for Christmas as a tech gift. Well, you might remember last year I mentioned that I wanted

an Xbox three sixty or maybe a PlayStation three. I remember that that still holds true. This year, someone did not get the hint. I'm looking at you, jolly red Elf up there in North Poland. Um, I would very much like an Xbox three six or p S three. They're even better than they were last year, so there's more reason to buy one for me. Um. I also would like a nook, but apparently I'm too late for that, so I'm gonna have to wait till next year before I can get a knook. Um. Yeah, I actually I

like the Nook design. I'm now granted maybe it's a good thing that I'll have to wait because I can read the reviews. The one thing I'm curious about is the Nook. Of course, it's an e ink e reader, you know, sort of like the Kindles, except that it has a touch screen at the bottom. And that touch screen at the bottom, I'm wondering if that puts a bigger drain on the battery life. So I wonder how

long the battery lasts for the Nook. What's color? So you know that that that one color, a little touch screen at the bottom, it's gonna draw probably significantly more, which is why I want to know how long the battery life, because the Amazon can last for like two weeks, but how long can the Nook last? If the battery life is not that great, then I would prefer a Kindle to as opposed to the Nook. But I love the design of the Nook. Yeah, I actually like all

of the different major e readers for different reasons. I wouldn't mind Anook, I wouldn't mind a Kindle, and I wouldn't mind the the Sony Reader, the touch version, you know, because it's got the touch screen technology and all. You know, I'm pretty sure all of them out at least Sony, when I know works with Mac, and I'm pretty sure that the Kindle does too. Um, you know, I would certainly want one of those, and I wouldn't mind one of the gaming system I wouldn't like a nice pair

of headphones. I kind of missed my nice pair of headphones. I haven't really I replaced the ones that got stolen into the break in, but uh, the case on them cracked and it costs a pretty significant amount of money to have them sent back to the manufacturer and fixed. I have to say, it is pretty sad to walk by Poulette's desk and see him wearing those massively huge headphones that eventually cut off all circulation to his brain. Yes, what were we talking about again, Let's see he was

wearing them just before this podcast. All right, Well, um, so, if any of you are dying to buy your favorite text stuff, hosts of Present, now you have an idea of what to get that you should No, I'm told over and I'm told over and over again that we're not supposed to solicit gifts. Although Stuff you should Know has received several gifts, by the way, Yes, including liquor. Really, I am not joking. I am not joking. Um, I'm

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than anyway. Okay, we'll wrap it up with a little listener mail. Okay, this listener mail comes from Frank G. And this is overdue. So I apologize Frank, because you are owed a kudos because Frank was the one who figured out what it meant when I said, Michael, let's drive to Congress. Do you figured out that it has a connection through the actor who played both the voice of Kit and John Adams in the musical seventeen seventy six. Yes, it's the same actor and he is brilliant in both roles.

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