{"id":40586,"date":"2022-12-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40586"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:11:19","slug":"2022-i-wish-list-kevins-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/2022-i-wish-list-kevins-picks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 \u201cI wish\u201d List \u2013 Marks\u2019s picks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This year we are doing something different for our holiday gift lists. Instead of carefully selecting some of the best tools and gifts that we own and can personally recommend, this time we are carefully listing things we don\u2019t have but would like to get. This is a wish list. We\u2019ve searched for uncommon gifts that seem wonderful, although contrary to the usual policy of this site, we don\u2019t actually have any personal experience with the items on this list. If you do, leave some comments. \u2014 Editors<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s what Mark Frauenfelder would like for the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OP-1 Synthesizer by Teenage Engineering<\/strong>
I’ve been dreaming about this $1300 synthesizer<\/a> (top left) ever since it came out about seven years ago. It’s tiny, but feature-packed (synth, drums, recording, mixer, EQ, effects). One person I know has written entire movie scores with it. Watch this demo on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leica D-LUX 7 4K Compact Camera<\/strong>
My iPhone 12 Mini is my camera, but if I had $1400 to spare, I\u2019d buy the Leica D-LUX 7<\/a> (top right). I don\u2019t know enough about photography to explain what makes it a great camera. I just like the way it looks, and I like the photos my professional photographer friends take with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RTX 3090 Graphics Card<\/strong>
I\u2019m fascinated by AI art generators like MidJourney and Stable Diffusion. I would like to be able to run Stable Diffusion locally on my computer, but that requires a graphics card to do the heavy number crunching required. The RTX 3090<\/a> (bottom left) at about $1,500, would be great. For now, I\u2019ll just keep using Google Colab credits and rely on cloud computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple Watch Ultra<\/strong>
I have a perfectly good Apple Watch Series 3, but since this is a wish list, I might as well add the $800 Apple Watch Ultra<\/a> (bottom right) It has an appealingly chunky design, a larger display, and a much longer battery life than the one I own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8 things on my holiday wishlist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[2390],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40589,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586\/revisions\/40589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}