I keep trying to engage people onto my wonderworld on X, and I am adding about one follower per month. I want to reach 100K followers, more than any other prophet in history. Clearly, this a legacy I will not fulfill on my lifetime and my children will carry that meaningful burden with them. Help me make that quicker by following - I very much want to be the leader of your cult. You can do it here. Thank you. I'll STFU now.
Weather station that is ultra-smart
If you are going to have a boring weather station, it's better if it is ultra-smart. Thankfully Geekmagic has got you covered, very nice of them. They are the ones that call it the following meaningful name, brace yourself and get as much air as possible before reading: "GeekMagic Ultra Smart WiFi Weather Station Bed Clock with Photo Album Gif Animation Desktop Decoration". It's a compact USB-C desktop device that, as the name cleverly points out, can show the weather, time, jpg/ gif playback with support for up to 50 images, themes, weather animations and 3-day forecast. You interact through your computer or mobile phone. Must-have? You decide. With a DKIWT factor of 3/10, you can see this is not for me.
Coolness factor: 4/10 | DKIWT factor: 3/10
Garmin inReach that is so-so smart
We're human and we need to communicate. When distances are long and shouting is not feasible, we need some sort of device to help us out and that is what the Garmin Mini 3 Plus is for. It'ss for situations when even your expensive phone is useless, in places where nerds like us usually do not venture - the great outdoors, so remote there is no network coverage. You can still remain in contact with global Iridium network coverage and send out voice, photos, and long-form text messaging. It supports LiveTrack location sharing, trip planning, weather forecast (like the weather station elsewhere on this issue) and it can intelligently change over between all the connectivity options it supports: Wi-Fi, cellular, and satellite. With IP67 rating, super rugged, you can use it on the moon (requires satellite, not sure if available). It's cool, can save your life, so it deserves a space on the DKIWT newsletter for sure.
Coolness factor: 7/10 | DKIWT factor: 5/10
framework laptop 12 that is sooo-sooo small
So small it looks like a toy which, of course, it is. 12.2 inches is really pushing it IMHO - would really like to test the new Framework Laptop 12 for a while to see if I could ever use one of these. So far in my life, I have made the scientific discovery that 14 inch is really the smallest I can accept. You can use it as a tablet, so I guess that's a plus for the screen size, but I think it's a little clunky when you have the keyboard folder underneath. It has first-class Linux support, uses the power of an Intel Series 3 processor (meh!), configurable ports (you know with those modules that you slide in, I think you have seen that on other models), a bright 1920x1200 touch display with stylus compatibility. You can go up to 64GB of RAM and can choose several capacities and types of SSDs. I love it for what it is but you can see I am not super enthusiastic about just because I am not the target user, maybe you are.
Coolness factor 6/10 | DKIWT factor: 4/10
Bonus - DIY 3D
One of the most incredible things coming out of France since the croissant, is this service/ shop. Did3D sells all the necessary files so you can 3D print a huge assortment of hyper-detailed pop-culture models, some with crazy good animatronics - I couldn't believe it. Knight rider, Back to the Future, Batman, Jurassic Park, you name it, they have it. From the files you get to what you see on the site, I imagine there are hours and hours and hours and hours of work which, to be quite honest, puts me off but there is no denying that the final results are absolutely jaw-dropping, an expression I don't use often to describe other people's work. Best to have a friend take the time to build the models and you just enjoy the end result. Still very much worth it to be featured on this issue, I think you will agree.
I have nothing else to say this time, I already said a lot. I am going now, bye, see you on the next one, hope you keep coming, I promise I will. At 45.5 subscribers we must be doing something wrong. Over and out.