doodads

On Sept. 22, hundreds of Pearce students wore mums festooned with ribbons, feathers, teddy bears, cowbells, whistles and various other doodads.

He describes all the doodads in his digital workshop as “enchanted objects,” and cites the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Every year, there are tech doodads and breakthrough inventions that get your attention.

First you noticed us in the airport, milling around with a baby and what appeared to be roughly 800 bags, all full of various doodads, some of which themselves made annoying sounds.

For all its futuristic doodads and wide array of alien life, “Trek” is certainly set in the universe that we occupy — and not “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.”