Today on Boing Boing Gadgets

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we listened to chiptunes from 1951, winced at a weird Amiga, and marveled at Dale Mathis' clockworkpunk executive desk. A vintage Flash Gordon strip shills Union Carbide products as passengers board trains that never stop. Mazda's new Russian concept is half SUV, half Batmobile.

Gadget of the day was Philips's sexy, Shuffle-sized MP3 players, but an earthier ingenuity is seen in the blacksmith who recycles anything. Cleverness abounds: the PGP code book, distributed to route around export restrictions, is on on eBay; one may buy fake branded pens designed to upset freeloading pen-borrowers; and Pittsburgh boffins have invented a program that accurately geotags images based on subtle similarities to stuff already in Flickr.

John regaled us with the history of Japanese vending machines, and debunks the urban myth that is doubtless on your mind. Rob wrote about unchecked malware on a government computer that resulted in bogus child porn charges, and Joel infiltrated Apple and listened to The Trons, a homebrew automata band.

Not done? Try God's own suppository, one of 14 3D printers, and a Convenient Lie.