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100 Dollar Laptop - cheap portable computing power
100 Dollar Laptop-Comments
Alternative Power - not from a socket
Amiga - follow the bouncing ball
Analog Computer - no not digital
Ancient Protocol - what’s it all about alfie
Applied Ascii
Atari 2600 - cartridge and joystick heaven
Audio Recording
Battery - small portable power
Calculator - crunching numbers nom nom nom
Cell Phone - can you hear me know? no? good.
Coffee Maker - mmmmm.... a hot cuppa joe!
Computer Space - first mass-produced video arcade game
Death of Print - requiescat in pace
Digital Computer - zeros and ones, but it all adds up
Digital Preservation - get rid of that paper. ???
E Book Reader - software and hardware
EZ Pass - what’s it all about alfie
Flight - air-traffic control
Flight-Comments
Home Built Computer - diy
Keyboard - finger-wise input devices
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MAME - lots of emulations
Media Appliance - it’s an appliance. for media!
Mediating Technology - what’s it all about alfie
Modem - what’s it all about alfie
Number - one plus one plus one plus one plus one is... uh, wait, lemme start again
Palm - palm is dead long live palm
Palm-Comments - what’s it all about alfie
Portable Oddities
Privacy - WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
Punch Card - Do Not Fold Spindle or Mutilate
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Radio Phonics - let me tell you about texas radio and the big beat
Societal Lo Tech - what’s it all about alfie
Solar Energy - what’s it all about alfie
Tablet - what’s it all about alfie
Televisionary - seeing from a distance
Time Piece
Time Piece-Comments
Toaster - electric, generally
Toy Music Boxes - what’s it all about alfie
Typewriter
Typewriter-Comments - what’s it all about alfie
Umbrella - singing not in the rain
Umbrella-Comments
Unter See - below the liquid surface
Vending Machine - put a nickel in the slot
Versus Cell Phones - annoying cell phones can be annoying
Video Game - eating quarters
Video Recording - what’s it all about alfie
View Master - what’s it all about alfie
Wiki Reader - offline wikipedia reader from openmoko
Wiki Reader-Comments
XO - the OLPC XO laptop project
Xray Specs - I’m looking through you, but you’re not there

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StringCanPhone: String Can Phone

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