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The Woz Showing Off a Prized Gadget
medgadget.com - 10/30/2009
The Woz Showing Off a Prized Gadget
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One of the attendees to this year's TEDMED was the venerable Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computer. Steve is an engaging person so he wanted to show us his NIXIE tube wrist watch and how he uses it to intimidate fellow airline travelers. It ain't medical, but is surely amusing:
Steve Wozniak Showing Off His NIXIE Tube Watch (video)
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Steve Wozniak Showing Off His NIXIE Tube Watch (video)
— youtube.com — Steve Wozniak at TEDMED 2009 demonstrating to Medgadget how he frightens fellow airline travelers. More details here:... http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2009/... (more) Steve Wozniak Showing Off His NIXIE Tube Watch (video)

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Apple Co-Founder Shows How a NIXIE Tube Watch Works
Tech Blog — ... Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known as "The Woz", shows off his strange NIXIE tube watch in this clip. Continue reading to see "how he uses it to intimidate fellow airline travelers." Also of interest is how he can smuggle a ceramic knife on board an aircraft without being arrested. [via Dvice - Medgadget]

Wozniak shows off his nixie tube watch
DVICE Atom Feed — ... has to go through just to change the time zone. Never mind that, if they could just make these things a whole lot smaller, we'd really be lusting after one. Woz also talks about how his fellow passengers start to get worried when he adjusts his nixie watch, which to the uninitiated might look like a crude bomb triggering device. Also of interest is how he can smuggle a ceramic knife on board an aircraft without being arrested. We weren't aware he flew commercial. Via Medgadget

Woz’s watch makes air travelers nervous
Hack a Day — ... ], Last of the freelance hackers and Greatest swordfighter in the world, lives a hacker life you couldn’t even dream about. The folks over at medGadget ran into him and learned about his watch. In their interview (embedded after the break) [Steve] shows off the Nixie tube wristwatch that we can only assume he created himself. ...

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