Tag: Toys

  • Biometric phone

    No lah, it isn’t really. It’s just that the N78‘s shiny black surface collects a lot of smudges and fingerprints, and that if there were a bunch of N78’s lying around with their displays turned off, I’d still be able to pick mine out by the shape and size of my finger smudges. As with…

  • The Krups is back

    As if in deference to my birthday this week, the Krups was fixed and collected this week without much fanfare. It’s much quieter than before, and we’ve since had two espressos each without the thing breaking down. Hooray.

  • BRB, setting this up…

    Hang on… setting up birthday present from Naomi.

  • Completely useless Christmas gifts: Taser C2

    OK, this is so not “completely useless”, I hear you say. Especially since the UN has defined the Taser as a weapon of torture. It is, however, dangerous, because it’s such a nice looking gadget (“available in four designer colors”), and one that is likely to be mistaken for a new fangled electric shaver. The…

  • Completely useless Christmas gifts: The Back Up

    When I was in the Army, someone gave me a gift which was supposed to be the China Army version of the Swiss Army knife. We know the latter to be chock full of useful tools which you might need, like a foldaway magnifying glass to look for the tiny screw which you’ve struggled to…