In praise of 'steam radio'

 

I recently bought a radio for my father from the Worth it range of the sadly now defunct Woolies.

 

It has an on off button that doubles as the volume control (with an easily recognisable icon of the hill gradient variety for louder, softer), a tuning dial and a 3 point sliding switch for am fm and long wave.

 

Given that most people only use about 2 or 3 radio stations, it is ideal for simple everyday use.

 

... and at only £6.95 not only the cheapest but one of the best pieces of technology I have purchased in recent years...

 

Yours aye

 

Happy ex-Woolies customer

 

(Victoria)

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ole E. Wattne
Sent: 03 February 2009 11:32
To: Discussions about information design
Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Recharging batteries: lack of a common visualvocabulary

 

perhaps the concept of «steam radio» could be elaborated upon? Is this the latest in radio-technology?

:-)

 

Ole

Funny Middleaged Man Department

 

...who, by the way, completely agree on the idea of a common batterycharger, digital clock and radio - especially car radio - grammar.

 

Den 3. feb.. 2009 kl. 11.39 skrev Rob Waller:





Other areas of everyday life where a grammar is required: 

- digital clocks. Moving to summer time is great feat of memory, manual dexterity, deduction and luck, and my oven clock is only correct six months of the year.

- car radios: every car seems to have a different set of abbreviations: PTY, AST, TP, TA, etc. But only rarely On and Off.

 

In fact any radio is more complicated than the ones we used to have. Not able to receive steam radio in the basement kitchen of our new home, I've just ordered an internet radio. I'll need to tune it, so I think I won't make any plans for the weekend.

 

Rob,

Grumpy Old Man Department

 

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Rob Waller

 

Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

University of Reading

 





 

On 2 Feb 2009, at 18:46, Conrad Taylor wrote:





This evening, I am recharging my batteries.  No, that is not
a metaphor.  I have a bunch of Li-ion and NiMH rechargeable
batteries.  In anticipation of an expedition into Wessex,
I am recharging them.

The dedicated Li-ion batteries for the Nikon D-200 SLR and the
Panasonic NV-GS320 DV-cam.  And the AA and AAA "Hybrio" NiMH
cells that I use for my digital audio recorders, flashgun and
LED torch (I have two chargers for such batteries).

One of the chargers has a green LED that stays on until the
batteries are charged, then it goes out.  One has an orange
LED that flashes until the batteries are charges, then it
stops flashing.  One has a light that simply stays on all
the time to show the batteries are connected to the circuit,
and you have to guess whether the batteries have been charged
or not.  One charger has a light that starts out one colour,
and then changes to another colour when the battery is charged.

"Why oh why oh why oh why..."  can't we have some kind of
visual vocabulary standardisation in this area? (!*@?)

Conrad

(Who, mounted on a charger, fears a charge of hungry Li-ions)
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