Media Shims

To learn where change is taking place, look for awkwardness.

My favorite tactic for finding awkwardness is looking for ‘shims’: tools for transforming signals from old formats to new. Sometimes these are obvious. Sometimes they’re subtle.

This series is a place for tracking them.

The Cassette Adapter

The Negative Digitizer

The Flat Bed Scanner

The Dot-Matrix Printer

The Modem Coupler

TiVo

Dongles