{"id":7916,"date":"2003-01-02T13:42:27","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2003-01-02T13:42:27","modified_gmt":"2003-01-02T13:42:27","slug":"gadget-o-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7916","title":{"rendered":"Gadget o&#8217; the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" valign=top align=left src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/aerolatte.jpg\"> I guess when you&#8217;re a gadget geek, it&#8217;s inevitable that everybody wants to know what great gear you got for X-mas. The answer is: none. I don&#8217;t have to get gadgets for presents. People send me gadgets for free all year long, sucking up to us Street Techies in the hopes that we&#8217;ll say nice things about their stuff. But if I HAD asked for a gadget this year, it would&#8217;ve been the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerolatte.com\" target=new>AeroLatte<\/a>. My mother-in-law had one at her house and we all fell in love with it.<\/p>\n<p> The AeroLatte couldn&#8217;t be cooler (or simpler). It&#8217;s nothing more than a battery pack\/motor and a tiny circular whisk on a shaft. Stick it in milk (or juice or anything else) and it whips it up to twice the volume in seconds. It&#8217;s so cool to put the spinning whisk right below the surface of the liquid, leave it there for a few seconds, and you can literally lift the liquid up. Pour in some strong coffee and you&#8217;ve got an awesome latte with no need for steam. <\/p>\n<p> AeroLatte is available in the US from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restorationhardware.com\" target=new>Restoration Hardware<\/a> for $25 (incl. the stand).<\/p>\n<p> OK, I lied, I did get one gadget. My brother-in-law is a tools salesman. He gave me one of those new-fangled bright <a href=\"http:\/\/streamlight.com\/stylus_reach_info.htm\" target=new>LED flashlights<\/a>. It&#8217;s a pen-sized light with a bendable eye-stalk. Perfect for looking into computer cases, behind entertainment centers, etc. Really bright light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess when you&#8217;re a gadget geek, it&#8217;s inevitable that everybody wants to know what great gear you got for X-mas. The answer is: none. I don&#8217;t have to get gadgets for presents. People send me gadgets for free all year long, sucking up to us Street Techies in the hopes that we&#8217;ll say nice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gadget o&#8217; the Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}