| What is the next gadget on your must-buy list? |
| A portable global positioning system (GPS). I go to cities not only in the US but in |
| Europe and Asia and a GPS can lead me with ease to my destination. |
| If given a chance, what dream gadget would you build? |
| I love my music and have it on records, spools, cassettes, CDs, MP3 and some other media too. I would love to build a gadget that would read from all these media, clean the noise and put it on an iPod. |
| If you were a gadget, what would you choose to be and why? |
| Guess, an iPod. This way I would have music on tap. |
| Your most embarrassing moment while exhibiting your technical skills. |
| After putting a silver paper around a blown fuse in a calculator, I forgot to replace the fuse. I blew off the chips when it was plugged into a DC power outlet by mistake. |
| Which wacky gadget have you had fun using? |
| My first CD label writer that required putting the label through multiple passes to get different colours and trying to align it so the colours do not overlap. |
| If you could, whose computer would you hack? |
| I do not think I would hack anyone's computer.I don't want anyone to hack mine. |
| Do gadgets help you unwind? |
| I love my music and so my wireless headphones, my Carver amplifier and Paradigm & Bose speakers work well for me. |
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