That or they got hold of the plans for the Nutri-Matic, and it makes “a liquid almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”
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One of my past employers sold cheap computers through DAK.
Drew A. Kaplan (as I recall) stopped by our booth at trade shows a few times. I think he wore elevator shoes. When he was due to visit we stocked up on peach flavored Diet Rite soda.
I got the DAK catalog for many years. The one item I bought was a DAK breadmaker. Kind of a glass-domed R2D2. I used it now and then; eventually I lent it to my aunt who used it to make soy-product-free bread for my grandmother. She worked that thing to death! I got a far better bread maker with the money she sent in exchange.
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After reading the article (collection? blog post?) you linked, I really wish I’d gone. It looks like it would be an outrageous amount of fun. Especially if I could get someone to pretend to be the journalist I’m camera operating for. 
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It strikes me as something that could be incredibly fun if you either have a very specific thing to do or a very non-specific thing to do. The mushy middle seems nerve-wracking.
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Count me in!
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Well I’m battery man.
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I keep trying to work up the energy to make one of those. I don’t see this ever becoming a consumer product because any laser powerful enough to flash a bug is going to cause permanent blindness if it is aimed at, or reflects at, someone’s eyes.
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Replace them with UV LEDs. Things will fluoresce!
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That would be a perfect hack - adding a backlit voltage gauge.
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Ooh…anyone make a set of these that would fit under a motorcycle helmet? Sound-blocking earbuds work well enough for audio GPS, but it would be nice to be able to use my proper earplugs.
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There were some bicycle helmets that had embedded bone conduction earpieces as well as some other sensors. Unless they were modular and could be swapped into a new helmet, I don’t think that I would make that investment for a bicycle helmet.
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Off-topic, but reminded how much I enjoy calling it a “bisicka hemmet”.
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It could work by multilateration. Fire a bunch of low power lasers at an object in 3D space, from different directions.
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