For this week gadget warehouse we go back about 14 years to check in on Digi-Vina a device originally revealed on the Giz Wiz Show of April 1, 2009. This space-age invention lets you make your own vinyl records using any kind of ‘throw-away’ plastic bottles. And Surprise! Digi-Vina is not dead! Actually, I was very surprised to see all the updates on their website! I think you will be too. They’re here:
New 2023 features: http://www.digi-vina.com/digi-vina-2-0/
Other things we found out about Digi-Vina on April 1st……
Reviews on Amazone — Please note: The name looks like a big company that says stuff on line, but Amazone is completely different.
On Amazone, the new Digi-Vina Travel got an amazing 6 stars out of 5 stars!
And that rating was 100% of all the one person who rated it!
And Digi-Vina is accepting bit coins as payment! Well, not all bit coins – just 2 bit coins — which basically means they’ll accept quarters at the rate of 4 to a dollar…
If you like, you can listen to a few minutes of Giz Wiz w/Leo Laporte from 14 years ago. Start at about the six minute mark: http://www.gizwizsearch.com/episode-798.html
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Email of the week:
As you see on this week’s show, this has got to be a scam. It’s for an old, old Bose product still available on Amazon for more $600. Here’s the current Amazon ad:
https://www.amazon.com/Bose-System-Multi-CD-Changer-Titanium/dp/B004JNZHRK
As an Amazon Associate Giz Wiz Biz earns from qualifying Amazon purchases. You pay no more. Remember, this device tech-wise is very old! It may have come out like in 2011.
But on a what looks like a ‘scam QVC’, it’s on sale (or was on sale) for $39!! with 77% off if you bought a second unit!!! That means two units for under $40.00! We checked their other prices too like $200 luggage for ridiculoulsy low prices. So low we decided, ‘if it sounds too good to be true, it’s probably a scam.’
