It seems as though there will be big changes at Dick’s Gadget Warehouse, which is actually the Sofia Warehouse at 83rd Street & Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan, NYC. The company filed for bankruptcy and Dennis & I didn’t know what that meant. Just yesterday while at the warehouse we were told that although there will be changes in ownership, it will remain a storage facility. But in case the rates go way up, we thought we better get everything organized. While doing that I discovered what is most likely —
– Ta Da!
The Oldest Gadget Ever Found in Dick’s Gadget Warehouse?
It’s an Edison Gold Moulded Record, a.k.a ‘ a cylinder recording.’
Edison started producing them in 1910. You’ll learn more about it on this week’s show.
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Email of the week:
Hi Dick and Chad!
I’ve been listening for years and love the show. I saw Dicks clamp light and loved that it had a button to stay on for 15 minutes. I ordered one and the first one came and it was clearly a return. The product box take was cut and not packaged correctly. I thought well it’s just a lamp – as long as it works who cares. Well it didn’t work. The silver part of the power cord was loose and crooked. I tried my own usbc cable with no luck. I guess it needs a certain voltage. So I exchanged it for a new one. New one came and it worked! I threw the box out and set it up a few days later. As I was plugging the silver into the lamp I saw it was loose. A few minutes later the light was still off but I saw sparks at the silver piece! I unplugged it and looked and saw that the silver piece slides off easily leaving tiny little wires that should slide back on the usbc piece but it was very difficult to try to get them in again. And then I realized wait – if this thing sparked when off, why do I want to risk using it? Why would I even want a replacement? I then checked Amazon and saw a few reviews with a similar sparking issue. I don’t mean to scare you but I felt I should share this with you. I don’t know perhaps if you unplug yours and carefully put electric tape around where the silver part goes into the cable this will keep it stable and have less chance to spark? But I’d hate to see anyone get hurt or worse over a lamp. It’s a shame because it’s a great design and idea but I guess the company doesn’t have great quality control or something.
Take care! Dan Here’s the lamp Dan is talking about: https://amzn.to/4nd8bYy
