ITT: Tech you wanted as a kid
Just nanites, actually.
Back in the day there was a store called Service Merchandise and they sold a Casio watch that could double as a TV remote. I really wanted my mom to buy me one, in no small part so that I could take it to school and prank the class by turning on the TV without them ever suspecting it was me.
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>>107106331Service Merchandise was the shit when I was a kid. I got a Magnavox double cassette boombox for my birthday and spent my allowance on a no-name PDA with 1MB of ROM or something absurd like that. I'd bring it to school to take note of important things on the playground because I'm totally not an autistic retard.
I got this as a kid and its manual stated that it had an enhanced version with more memory, better water sealing, illumination, and all the buttons being on the sides. I wonder which model that was; I don't have the manual any longer. I know they made silver versions but those were the same thing recolored.Unfortunately the year timer could only set the years up to around 2020, so I couldn't use it today, even though I still have the old one.>>107106331Wouldn't work because every TV sends different IR signals, assuming the watch can learn signals to be universal you'd still need to put the remote in front of it so it can memorise the IR signals it sends. So you couldn't just dick around in class with it, I mean, unless you snatch the remote first and set up your watch with it.Also if you had that watch, every kid would know you got it and could prank the class with it.
>>107106523>Wouldn't work because every TV sends different IR signals, assuming the watch can learn signals to be universal you'd still need to put the remote in front of it so it can memorise the IR signals it sendsYeah and? That's how you did it with any remote. They had a book with setup codes for different TV brands which were standardized. Dont speak about things you dont know about.
>>107106523>Wouldn't work because every TV sends different IR signals, assuming the watch can learn signals to be universal you'd still need to put the remote in front of it so it can memorise the IR signals it sends. So you couldn't just dick around in class with it, I mean, unless you snatch the remote first and set up your watch with it.Yeah wronghttps://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/casio-cmd30/60876144
>>107106376Boy do I have good news for you anon
>>107106595I cannot believe this is a thing
>>107106595still banned and probably currently in fed hands
>>107106211Any of those phones that spun around. I used to look at them in magazines and online thinking it was the coolest shit in the entire world.
They were cool for 2 years
>>107106523>Wouldn't work Very wrong, you put it into code cycle mode and keep hitting a button until the TV turns off. Then you exit code cycle mode and your watch will stay on the code bank for that tv. We'd do it everywhere, school, restaurants, lobbies, you name it.
defies belief that my autism wasn't identified until my 30's
>>107106617Can't you just contract some vietnamese to make it, label it under pet use or something?
Nokia N95, I was too poor for it, I had a Nokia 6300 instead.
>>107106869Holy shit, there was a Sega personal organizer?
>>107107684I went from 6630 (first phone) to N95 to 701 to N9 to Nokia 8.
>>107108053My first phone was a 5110 back in 99, then an 8210 which I used until 03 then got a 6100, then the 6300.I miss old phones.
>>107108129This was mine in 1999-2000. Nokia 3210. Took it to high school every day.
These looked pretty damn cool
>>107106250See ya kiddo
>>107108193I've wanted a household robot for over 30 years.You won't take this away from me.
>>107108349MD hardware always looked super cool and amazing to me as a kid, but they effectively didn't exist where I live. I don't think I've ever seen one in person.
The Amiga 1000. Fuck I wanted it so bad. But in the 90s obtaining one in shitstern europe was practically impossible, not to mention my parents barely had money for a shitty Apple ][ clone (which were horribly outdated even then).
>>107108368I've seen several, even some portables. The portables were the coolest shit ever, but by the time we could afford one, portable CD players existed, and 2 years later so did MP3 players.You were a cool guy if you owned a MD player in the 90s though.
>>107108545Can confirm, the only people I knew who had MD players were Cool Guys. But it was too many extra steps compared to the skip-protection CD Discman that got better every year until the MP3 players became superior.
was the epitome of class to me when I was in highschool. came out just before the iphone and i ended up going that route instead.
>>107108353It's not real, it's remotely operated by a jeet in India who will use it to molest your underage daughters.
gameboy micro :(
>>107108667incorrect
As my technologically clueless folks couldn't understand what a "graphics accelerator" was for (and I was too hopelessly autistic to explain), it still took me a decade until I could get a computer capable of respectable gaming.
>>107108839It is correct. AI isn't nearly good enough to power a humanoid robot that does household chores. Fucking retard. They're paying Indians $2 an hour to operate it remotely. They literally admitted to doing this and aren't even trying to hide it.
>>107106259I had one and it didn't work with my mac.
>>107108545People around here just went from tape straight to CD and then to internal storage (or memory card) MP3 players. Nobody I knew at least even touched MD. It always looked really cool to me, even though I was never even the kind of kid who liked to listen to music while on the street.I could probably buy some MD stuff now but I feel like I don't actually have any legitimate use for it. Physical media is cool but putting stuff on my home server is just far more practical.
>>107108907One was tested inside of a Faraday Cage.
>>107109007>source: my ass
>>107108349Loved my minidisc player, has continued to be my absolute back up to music whenever something goes wrong since all it needs is one battery for more playback time than I need plus the original rechargeable battery was fucking futuristic at the time
I made my dad get me one of these pieces of shit back in 2006. It was the first portable satellite radio receiver. These days, its just an app, but back then satellite radio receivers were exclusively car stereo units. This piece of shit barely could register a signal and cost $250.
>>107109245>satellite radioWhat's the point? I thought radio was just what you listened to when you forgot to bring a CD or tape
>>107109245Last I remember is these old radios can't be turned off from receiving service even though everything is subscription based now.Always hoped that was true and I could find one
>>107106211Teddy Ruxpin. The books for him came with a cassette tape that you put in his back and then he would read you the book to you. His eyes, mouth and arms moved.My parents wouldn't get me one because it was too expensive. And. My Dad said that the only parents who buy this for their kid are shitty parents who are never around. My mom said that I was smart enough to learn to read the books myself.I guess looking back on it they were both right.
Multiple cards, when I was a kid I was obsessed with the idea of having dual cards, not understanding that it doesn't work in every game, and that it's wildly inefficient when it comes to power usage.
>>107106428Consumer tech peaked in this time period.
>>107109639Given how performance hungry modern games are and how inadequate modern cards are, multi-GPU would certainly still have a place today. Imagine actually being able to play video games at native res with no upscaling, no fake frames and all the fancy graphics shit turned on.
>>107106698i remember using one of these from a friend because i needed to get ahold of my mom and my phone died. This keyboard was nightmarish to type on. The alias might be my favorite phone that ive ever owned. It was the perfect size and the keys felt great.
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>>107106869WOAH! Never have seen this before. When did these come out?
>>107107416I used one of those at my first job. I feel fucking old.
I don't care if it was just a dumb toywww.youtube.com/watch?v=c0l279Q5ULsthis commercial made it look cool
>>107109812It wouldn't surprised me if multi GPU made a comback with the way we're peaking, my sister hates how much heat her stupid chud of a 1080Ti puts out, but there's no reason for her to upgrade on a budget because it's faster than an RTX 3060, a card people are still playing on and has more VRAM, so she would just be sidegrading from a card that literally maxes out Balders Gate 3 on a 4KTV and gets over 30 FPS.
>>107109994I don't think it's coming back. CF and SLI both were basically killed because the 2 GPUs didn't have fast access to each other's dedicated memory and game devs were too lazy to actually write engines intended to run properly on those kinds of multi-GPU setups. I don't see either of those things changing. Technically both DX12 and Vulkan support multi-GPU on today's modern cards, but not a single game out there actually implements this support.
>>107109994>1080Tii deeply regret not buying one off of my friend for a silly cheap price when he went to the military and still think about getting one because im on a 1660
>>107108942ah shit I had one of those, lost my sonic advance cart coz I left it in there. Was that some kind of DRM?
>>107109994>>107110041i got memed into getting a 1080TI in like 2018, and it's all i've used since thencan handle VR comfortably & everything else i've needed so fari've re-thermal pasted it like 3 timesi don't trust any of this new shit
>>107110018True, the fact that you paid for a whole card and your memory doesn't double with SLI was always shitty to me.>>107110041Same if I knew the damn things would last damn near forever I would've bought one in 2017>>107110085Pascal is fucking eternal or something, I just do regular non gaming use and the 1050Ti is still powering me just fine, there's not a piece of consoomable content you're gonna be unable to play with 4 gigs of VRAM and a low power card as powerful as an old HD7970, Nvidia are a fucking asshole of a company but it's really incredible how good not only the 1050Ti was but even the 750Ti before it.
>>107108599We called them the girl-pearl at work because the ball was like a clitoris. I loved my girl-pearl.
what a shit thread lol>100 pictures of phones and watchestechnology is gay
>>107107713My parents both had these. I put an IBM PC emulator on my mom's so I could run Turbo C on it. That's more than the iPhone could do until very recently.Consumers are fucking retards.
>>107106211https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qCZrLsjE8
I live in a third world country, so it was very expensive at the time.
>>107106331> I really wanted my mom to buy me one, in no small part so that I could take it to school and prank the class by turning on the TV without them ever Same, but what I wanted was to turn the TV off. Parents were probably very aware, because we went to basic casios to dick measurement contests over who had the watch with the biggest amount of functions without ever seeing one of these.>ITT: Tech you wanted as a kidAll I wanted was a "16-bit computer". Any of them, as long as it was not 8-bit.Every time my parents would bring me with them to the mall I would see all cutting edge computers, but alI at home had was a shitty hand-me-down Amstrad CPC.
>>107108942I had one fo these, worked pretty well but used 4 AA batteries and went through them quickly.
>>107106211A umpc and i did bought a steam deck.
>>107111271I wanted one of these so bad and they're expensive as fuck now
>>107106331The Sevice Merchandise in my town was the first place I saw the 3DO and CDi. They had them each connected to a rear projection TV. The 3DO had road each and the CDi had some FMV game. I still remember those amber screen terminals they used everywhere to “order” your items from the warehouse. And I remember the conveyor belt where your orders appeared a half hour later.I wanted the Zelda game watch
>>107107416you can still buy them (though the design is a little different and it isn’t bakelite or melamine or whatever anymore)
>>107108215>all those innovative designes>clever ways to protect the camera lensesand now it's just a big as fuck bulge sad
As a kid I always wanted a Personal Organizer and pretend it was a tricorder from Star Trek. I also wished I could send text messages with it to my friends. My dad finally gave me one he got through work. He just had a paper calendar and a rolledex, so he didn't need it. I just took it everywhere but also didn't know what to do with it lol. Later in highschool I wished I could afford an ipod. >>107109415Very endearing Anon
>>107106331someone did this when I was about ten in school and we thought it was the funniest thing ever
>>107108599I had the Pearl Flip 8220 in high school; I used to use the BB pin to chat with hoes. Amazing phone.
>>107109276>satellite radio>What's the point?Consistent channels with reception everywhere during highway driving. Truck drivers and greyhound drivers were huge customers…
this, also a palm lifedrive
>>107112333I had a Palm, it was basically a modern smartphone without the ability to make phone calls or wifi. After the initial cool factor dwindled down, I just used it to as a gameboy and alarm clock.
>>107112346later palm models had wifi, like the lifedrive, I actually got one years back just to mess around withThere's a lot of free programs on palmdb
>>107107696It was a rebranded casio. I have the casio version. The Sega one was more posh because transparent instead of beige
>>107106211This
one of the firsts chink portable emulator
>>107106331>so that I could take it to school and prank the class by turning on the TV without them ever suspecting it was me.I had one, and I did exactly that. The range was weak though, and those buttons were really small and hard to press, even for a kid's fingers.
>>107108474Why the fuck would you want an Amiga 1000 in the fucking 90s? In early 90s Amiga was already RIP in pieces.
>>107112199first i was like Satelite radio? WTF, that exists??But then i remembered our satellite TV receiver has also radio stations there and it all makes sense now....
I used to think it was coolest shit ever when it released.
>>107108215>flip, switch, clickdy-clickI like to fiddle.
>>107107713The keyboard felt just right...
>>107106428BASS REFLEX??WOOOOOW!LET THE PARTY BEGIN, WE HAVE BASS REFLEX!
>>107108178I had one of those.
>>107108942I stole enough money from my grandmother to buy one. One Euros at time.
>>107113107>REFLEXTHE REFLEX FLEX FLEX FLEX FLEX FLEX
>>107109007No they can operate standalone, it's just that they also have a jeet mode where they're remotely operated and it activates without your consent. So I hope you don't keep your seed phrase anywhere your "robot" might find it
>>107113819Now that's a party!
>>107106698I had this in the darker blue color and it was in fact the coolest shit in the entire world and the slickest piece of hardware I'll ever own. Literally a conversation starter. I gave it the Metal Gear codec for a ringtone.>>107109825I had this one, it was overlooked for the EnV, as was it's successor. A real shame too, the Alias2 was extremely clever, using transparent buttons on top of an e-ink display to give you different buttons for each orientation. They had a nice texture that was fun to push.>>107112648Now that the patent has expired, this NEEDS a runback. The size and buttons felt wonderful, it was just a little too far ahead of its time.Too many desirable devices for me to count, I'll add this one to the list of phones. Motorola Ming, a flip phone with beefy specs, touchscreen, and see-through cover. 2005.
>>107109164Lego is linked to autism
I remember going to Radio Shack as a little kid and besides all the super expensive Tandy computers they always had I always wanted one of these robot claws, particularly this robot one with the big gooner arm. I don't even know what I'd do with it but it was fun to play with at the store.
>>107115133Dude
>>107106595>>107106601https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_podThis shit's great. Especially the last sentence
>>107111159Even that was a normalfag toy compared to palm os or windows mobile
>>107115771I know what it is
>>107115871I was talking about the wiki article itself
>>107114897>replaceable parts>in a smartphoneSHUT. IT. DOWN.
>>107115876Oh sorry
>>107115922Being the devil's advocate for a moment: Those pieces would 100% fall off if you dropped it, then get scratched and not fit properly anymore
>>107106601We are ruled by (((death cultists))),
>>107116342Ok
>>107115771Heh
>>107116330there sure was a better way of fastening them, this was nothing more than a prototype, but that problem was clearly not the reason why they pulled the plug.
