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Talk about a blast from the past...Drew Alan Kaplan, sort of the electronics intersection of J Peterman and Ron Popeil...

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DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs


https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/d...-of-gadget-catalogs/


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That was fun. Interesting to see how dated that stuff looks now!

I used to get bike catalogs: Bike Nashbar, Performance Bicycle, etc. Lots of shiny objects. But bike technology changed only slowly, the biggest changes being steel components yielding to aluminum, new frame materials, index shifting, and a few others. But the bicycle is inherently so efficient that the basic function and appearance didn't change that much over time...until, say, the mountain bike came along.


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I looked at the Hammacher Schlemmer website, which also features stuff that people want but don't need.

How about one of these for Christmas?

https://www.hammacher.com/prod...category-newarrivals


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