Technology Tinkerers Mugs

"The machine's done something really weird to Mr. Hendrickson."

Taking Technology to the Developing World.

Family all doing different things around the breakfast table.

Man - 'Done any Pirating lately me heartie' Reply - 'Narrh, me darn cd burner's on the blink'

'Mr. Crosgrove's hearing aid needs new batteries. And, hey, I see that I have everyone's undivided attention, too.'

'Do you know I only ever use my phone to phone your lost phone?'

"If blaming global warming doesn't work, blame it on autocorrect."

'A computer is only as good as the people who are employed to replace the people who were made redundant by the computer.'

Nikola Tesla

Humphry Davy: "My isolation of the alkali metals led...to this great battery..."

"And this little hybrid beauty runs on either gas or liposuction fat."

Miracles of Modern Technology #12: Transport & Communications

'I've run your letter through the word processor several times, sir, but it just keeps getting worse.'

I wouldn't get too friendly with him - I know for a fact he's going to be replaced by a robot next week.

'What did I tell you about texting during dinner?'

"We can also sell you another remote control to help you locate this model."

Receiving the early-morning T-mail.

"To return to normal height professor, we simply: 1. Switch on The Nano-Ray. 2. Find the Plug; 3. Insert it..."

The Rantoone - Inventions

It seems that an automatic dialing device has sold my answering machine ten magazine subscriptions.

Move closer who I can read by the light of your iPad.

Could you remind me where I am? Pardon? I forwarded my work phone to my home phone. Then my home phone to my mobile phone. Then my mobile phone back to my work phone back to my mobile phone! Rriiing! Rriiing! Rriiing! Am I currently pretending to be at home, mobile or office?! Now I'm lost.

Don't you hate when you build a time machine, return from the future, and forget what you were going to warn everyone about?

Junior's switch to electronic chewing tobacco was short-lived.

"It's not like the old days when anyone could work on their own horse. Now, it's all computerized."

"I gave you the wheel and this is what you did with it?"

Pounding speeds up the computer.

Robot Parts $5

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

"I'm grounded. I forgot to delete the car's computer history after we did those crop circles on Earth."

The Computer Bore

'First you forget logarithms. Then you forget how to do long division. Then the multiplication table begins to go...'

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

'What we've got here is a failure to communicate.'