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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

Name: Francis Lee Location: Boston, MA Ever since the Christmas of 1994, when I received my first computer as a present I’ve been in love since. I remember how excited I was when I plugged in all the plugs for my new IBM Aptiva PC. Then finally ripping open the Microsoft Windows packaging that contained

Name: Mounir Bashour, MD, CM, FRCSC, FACS , DIP ABO, ASOPRS Location: Montreal and Toronto Canada I cannot remember any time not using gadgets. Gaming consoles As far as I can remember, my first game console was the Atari bought by my beloved visionary Aquarian grandfather Shukri Shamamas. I also had both Intellivision consoles from

Name: Eric F. Schetley Location: Pittsburg, PA So what makes me think I’ve got what it takes to be a Gadgeteer? Well, I do read this site… 😉 The sarcastic geek typing this is Eric Schetley, an overgrown boy who loves his toys. I’m a PC Support Specialist at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer

Name: Carin van Geijtenbeek Location: The Netherlands My name is Carin van Geijtenbeek. I live in Utrecht, The Netherlands and I am 26 years old. I am one of those rare female computer- and gadgets freaks. In 2001, I bought my first Palm, a IIIxe, later followed by a m505. Now I have a Palm

Name: Sammy McLoughlin Location: UK My name is Sammy McLoughlin, I am 27, Irish and share my time between New York and Manchester, UK. I run my own PR business and so obviously need to be organised and so I depend on a PDA to assist. I have been a PDA Addict since I first

Name: Wayne E. Yang Location: New York You could say that I have been a collector of keyboards. No matter how much or how little money I have had, I have been prone to buy devices on which you can type, which should not be so much of a surprise when you consider that I

Name: Henry Kong Location: Singapore I guess I have always been attracted to gadgets.   Gaming consoles As far as I can remember, my first game console was a B&W made-in-Hong Kong pong machine that plugs into the TV.  This was followed by the Atari VCS 2600, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, MegaDrive and a host of other