Archives: The 'high-tech' gadgets from 1983 holiday season

Oh ho ho. Welcome to the financial district in San Francisco. And what may go down in shopping history is the first yuppie Christmas young urban professionals. Yuppies go to places like this. It's called in gear. This is the land of the fashionably practical where an egg timer is cast iron and drips out the seconds in sand from the most expensive beaches where garden tools are from England and look like they were by appointment to Her Majesty. They're made of stainless steel and they look like they're too nice to use here. You can get *** personal security knife that slips into the same shirt pocket as *** cross pin. This is where office workers ponder the usefulness of *** dipstick cleaner. Well, I think it would be *** handy device because sometimes service stations don't even have the paper towels anymore like they used to and you don't have *** rag or *** Kleenex. Just just what it says. If your yuppie already has an underwater rescue light for *** life jacket, perhaps he or she needs an ice cream scoop, an electric ice cream scoop. Yuppie kids like fun Christmas toys in the store at the Exploratorium *** Science Museum is just the thing. Not all the toys are expensive. The roving eye is *** good child stocking stuffer. There's also the mess free bubble blower, squeeze the bottle and up pops. The bubble wand. Electronic sculpture is the newest high tech Christmas present. Run your hand over the glass globe and you can see your biological aura. The two potato clock is *** big seller stick in the probes and it runs on electrolytes available in any plant or animal beer, salt water house plants, lemons, your kids, your kids, the cat, the dog, two hamsters. Anything tired of Trivial Pursuit. Try Domino pictures. The trick is to make your eyes go out of focus so you can see the portrait in the dots with Albert Einstein and guess who in San Francisco? This is John Gibson channel three reports.