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Name: Mike Oetting Location: Kansas City I suppose it all started nearly 10 years ago in 1996 with the launch of the Palm 1000. I remember reading the press leading up to the launch of this product, and I was hooked. I thought it was the first PDA which seemed to have a fair amount […]

Name: Terence Wong Location: Sydney, Australia This picture is of me and a Sentinel from The Matrix exhibit at Warner Bros Movie World in Queensland, Australia. A common misconception is that people who work in IT are all nerds. In fact, in my line of work as an Enterprise Java developer, I have met some

Name: Druce Macfarlane Location: San Mateo, California Hi, my name is Druce, and I am a Gadgetoholic. It all started shortly after High School, when I had some extra spending money, and decided to spend it on computers. All kinds of computers. I had everything from a home made PC, to a CP/M-based S100 system

Name: Dave Hawkins Location: Reading, UK I’ve always been interested in gadgets of all types and have worked my way through a wide range of personal organizers, PCs and communications devices in the past. Because of my particular circumstances I guess my requirements are slightly different from some people. During the day I work for

Name: Curtis Hinson Location: Texas, USA I just read through a few of your Gadgeteer profiles and thought I fit your profile. My first meetings with gadgets were back in the middle 80s when my family got a Tandy computer with an 8088 in it. I had some experience with electronics and programming as a

Name: Andrew N Location: Australia I�m 15, and a student in Australia. I have a fairly good collection of gadgets and computer hardware. My parents are programmers, so we have a lot of computers around the house. Below is a pic of my desk, which as you can see is fairly cluttered. My first interest

Name: Evan Koblentz Location: New Jersey I’m 29, live in New Jersey, and I write about big-business computing for a living (mostly for trade magazines.) I don’t have the most gadgets or the priciest gadgets, just some of the coolest ones. 🙂 On the surface, my gadgets aren’t mind-blowing. The PDA I use everyday is

Name: Drew Golden Location: Plano, Texas Where did it all begin? Well, I was a freshmen in High School when I was first introduced to the TRS-80 Mod III.  I was intrigued, and signed up for a summer course in Basic.  I remember the class and yellow book entitled Basic Basic – and the follow

Name: Justin Noland Location: Vancouver, Washington When I noticed that Frankie Rossi was the youngest (I think) Gadgeteer that has been featured (age 15) I thought ‘Hey, other geek teens do exist!’ And I figured that if he could make it, I might be able to too. I am 14, and live in Vancouver, Washington.

Name: Roeland Krul Location: The Netherlands After having seen some past “featured Gadgeteers” the feeling “Hey, I can do better than that!” really creapt up to me :o) My name is Roeland Krul and I live in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Years ago, in the spring of 1999, I saw a friend of mine play around

Name: Juan Puchalski Location: Venezuela, South America My story as a gadgeteer is quite unlike the usual story that says I have ten gazillion gadgets in every drawer of my house, and then some. Unfortunately I live in Venezuela, South America, and the wages are usually not enough to cover the basics, let alone gadget

Name: Mark Rosengarten Location: New York They don’t call me “The Gadget Man” for nothing! It seems to my co-workers that I come in to work every week with some new gadget. I am the person the creators of Ebay had in mind. I buy, use, get bored and move on. I am a chemistry