Archive for category: Toys and Gadgets

My Wishlist…

March 5, 2004 | Toys and Gadgets | By: Mark VandeWettering

Hey, if anyone has a spare 10 grand that they want to waste on me (your soon to be best friend), how about a VersaLaser, a USB controlled laser cutting/etching machine. Clink the links on the page to see a nifty demo like they showed on a recent edition of TechTV. Too much fun.

Faster isn’t always better

November 19, 2002 | Toys and Gadgets | By: Mark VandeWettering

It’s been about a year since I put together my last computer, a small system based upon Shuttle’s SpaceWalker SV24 motherboard and case. In most respects I rather like the machine, which has a DVD drive, an 800Mhz Celeron and is small (only 7x8x10 inches). But I do have a couple of caveats: The system […]

Office Toys

August 7, 2002 | Toys and Gadgets | By: Mark VandeWettering

I like to have toys in my office. I like puzzles and gadgets, cool lights and just weird stuff in general. I’ve got got a mechanical singing Christmas tree named "Douglas Fir", a Big Mouth Billy Bass, a plasma globe, a Miguel Tehada bobble head, a Hoberman sphere, some fossil trilobites, a stuffed Marvin the […]