The second episode is down right now, but I am watching the first. Although not a profession production, it has good information and is generally well done.
A suggestion for a segment for Tools of the Trade is to do a segment on force feedback. You may ask ECCI why they don't have FF even though they have one of the best wheels on the market. The answer is licensing. It is extremely expensive to license the technology and if you can't amortize that expense over thousands of products, it makes FF prohibitively expensive. ECCI will tell you that their fluid damping system provides better feel than FF, but since it is not dynamic, it is a bit hard to believe. I think it is mostly because of the costs. Check out
http://www.immersion.com/ for more information. Immersion owns the Patent.
Also, the shifter segment was OK. But it would have been much better if a couple of different products were tested, compared and contrasted.