Tinkering Enthusiast Gifts

"You've even got me confused now but I'm reasonably sure it's 'righty tighty - lefty loosey'."

'This shouldn't cost me too much to fix. I've already done most of the disassembly.'

'As a kid I was always taking things apart...so, anyway, that's when my parents stopped getting me pets.'

"Oscar has been known to reinvent himself."

Machine

Replacing a rubber fanbelt with a leather belt.

Small child building a large contraption from junk

Pounding speeds up the computer.

"Young Frankenstein"

Robot Parts $5

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

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

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

The Computer Bore

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

Needed Inventions: An Airbag To Protect The Viewer Against A Really Lousy Program.

'You know too much,'

MacGyver's Cat: 'You see, I took your bed and two paper clips and made it my bed.'

Early cyborg.

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

'I solved the problem of dead zones on my cell phone with a personal satellite,'

'Hon? Did your phone go dead? Hello?'

Gadget geek.

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

The Not-So Smart Meter

'I think I see what's making your funny noise.'

"It's a smart hamper that sucks up clothes. My mom claims I leave my clothes on the floor, so she has it follow me wherever I go."

Bicycle sat nav.

'I'm no expert, but I think we're a little behind when it comes to the latest industry technology.'

'Roger's busy making a cat-flap in the kitchen.'

'Ugh! Another oil puddle in the living room – bad robot dog!'

"No, it's not a bug. Since you keep losing you phone, I purchased you a phone-locating drone."

"The man who invented autocorrect died from the corona vibrator."

Fixing the Computer.

Sundar Pichai's first doodle.