The fortunes of hundreds of families — bales of cloth, piles of books, sacks of spices, twisted electronic gadgets, boxes of medicine — were scattered by the muddied sidewalks.
So it sounds like it's ticking a fair few folks'coolol gadget' box already.
This updates is, of course, free and will probably cause more than a few owners to dig their Roku box out of the random gadget box after being discarded cause the non-HD titles look like poo on a HDTV.
Tipjoy is running a contest through June 1 for the best apps created using this new Twitter Payments API — and according to TipJoy co-founder Ivan Kirigin, there are already plenty of good ones since Twitter is featuring it in the gadget box on the main Twitter homepage.
It has even become a developer of Web gadgets (see box, p. 100).
I only buy my gadgets from big box stores.
Exercises or demonstrations on the nature of science (Nickels et al. 1996; Rutledge and Warden 2000; Farber 2003; Lombrozo et al. 2008), including gadgets or "black box" set-ups with mechanical mysteries that students must figure out, go a long way toward showing cause-and-effect relationships and the roles of purpose and design in organismal complexity (Mead and Scott 2010a, b).
Place a pile of gadgets in the box, with larger ones at the bottom and smaller ones at the top, so it is easier to see them all.
A similar effect is produced by artifacts that masquerade as humans: Punch and Judy, jack-in-the-box, gadgets playing tricks on their masters as if with calculated malice.
My plan was to demonstrate, on the show, the old "mirror box" gadget that's designed to bounce the light from your old projector into the lens of a modern camcorder, thus transferring the footage--except we couldn't find one.
