meet the gadget #1

meet gadget #1. the spectrum analyzer.

the spectrum analyzer was invented by Mohammed an'al Yizer in 1989. yizer first got the idea while playing the popular electronics game "simon" at a swap meet in the deserts of chad. deciding that colors and sounds and frequencies needed to be even more confusing to the end user, as well as needing more buttons, izer began fleshing out the idea in the crawl-space of his hut.

a young mohammed an'al yizer preparing for a long day at chad community college

outsmarting the engineers at milton bradley, Yizer decided to put memory right in the unit - rather than having the user trying to remember "all that shit". he also decided to have the unit be powered by ac power, instead of using thousands of those duracell batteries dumped by american planes that would die out so quickly. out of frustration with trying to come up with a name for his new invention, as well as a real-world purpose, Yizer shelved his invention until 1994 when he decided to name his invention after himself. putting the finishing touches on his new "mo an'al sextant", Yizer shopped the idea to the only company seeming to take new inventions at the time, hewlett packard, who suggested that the name be changed. frustrated and angered that anyone would insult his intelligence, Yizer took his invention back to chad - unknowing that hp replaced his invention with a paper mache duplicate.

a modern day portable spectrum analyzer

a year later, after fine-tuning his invention further, Yizer realized what hp had done and immediately died of a heart attack. hearing of the news, and feeling pity for the "champion of chad", hp decided to indeed name the machine after Yizer with the more popular "spectrum analyzer" name. the machine is currently used to monitor radio frequencies and gain, measure amplitude and noise figure across a user specified span, add, subtract, and support sticky notes.