Gadgets and Gizmos
Categories : Cool |
I’m a big sucker for gadgets of all shapes and sizes, and tend to acquire all sorts of useful bits of equipent to fill up bits of space in my house and car that would otherwise remain unoccupied. I’ve got all sorts of USB cables snaking out from behind my computer for various bits of equipment that rarely get used . The best sources of these cool knick-knacks are drug reps and ebay. Just looking around the study I can see the following drug company parephenalia (of varying utlity) - celebrex PS2 mouse which I use with my laptop, Effexor hourglass thing, 2 little radios, 1 clock radio with the wonderful feature of 2 headphone jacks (go figure?), Rapilysin coasters x 2, a Norvasc torque screwdriver kit, extra large BP cuff, 2 stethoscopes, Seretide deodoriser and the mandatory 20 or so drug pens. From ebay today I received another neat gizmo called a Cuecat which I bought for about three dollars US. It’s a little USB device which looks like a cat but works as a barcode reader. I thought of this a couple of weeks ago when I found some software to catalog my books which looks up their details using the ISDN number. The idea hit me that it would be much easier to scan in the bar code than typing all the ISDNs in by hand, hence the ebay search which led me to the cat. SO i’ll be cataloguing like crazy over the next few weeks - books, CDs, DVDs. I have an irresistable desire to catalog the world. Anything with a barcode, look out!
