What Piece of Technology Felt Like Magic the First Time You Used It?

[cmh6476 1,204]

discuss.

[SUXBNME 1,648]

astroglide

[cmh6476 1,204]

Just now, SUXBNME said:

astroglide

follow instructions.

[cyclone24 1,993]

VR tech….

 

i mean other than obviously the Fleshlight

[cmh6476 1,204]

I would say my old Blackberry.  Something about having a keypad on a phone for the first time made my texting and email replies so much more expedient that the old flip phones. where I had to push the number 2 3 times real quick just to get a C.

[thegeneral 3,873]

iPhone 

[GobbleDog 1,027]

Beeper.  Invisible waves in the air find me anywhere I hide. Creepy.

[HellToupee 2,430]

Drove in a friend’s Tesla recently with the latest FSD. Game changer . Totally blew my mind

[supermike80 2,196]

Snowblower.  No question.   Bought one years and years ago.  Always shoveled.  Fired up that bad boy the first time and would never ever go back.

Motherfocker who invented that should win a nobel prize or something

[MDC 8,308]

iPod. I can carry my entire CD collection around with me?  

[HellToupee 2,430]

4 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

Snowblower.  No question.   Bought one years and years ago.  Always shoveled.  Fired up that bad boy the first time and would never ever go back.

Motherfocker who invented that should win a nobel prize or something

Once you use a snowblower you can never go back. I had one in MA and it made life much simpler during winter . Had an Ariens , it was bulletproof 

[supermike80 2,196]

3 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Once you use a snowblower you can never go back. I had one in MA and it made life much simpler during winter . Had an Ariens , it was bulletproof 

I got a 20+ year old honda.  thing is an absolute beast.  

[Strike 6,171]

I'm gonna go way way back here.  I remember when I was like 8 years old or something.  I was at the house of a friend of the family and their TV had a .........remote control.  We didn't.  If we wanted to change channels we had to turn a mechanical knob.  Their TV had a motor that turned that knob and when you pressed the button on the remote it made a loud clunk as it hit the detent for the next channel.  Very rudimentary but VERY cool.  Remotes have come a long way since then.  And I'm OLD.  

[TimHauck 3,537]

3D printer 

[cmh6476 1,204]

7 minutes ago, Strike said:

I'm gonna go way way back here.  I remember when I was like 8 years old or something.  I was at the house of a friend of the family and their TV had a .........remote control.  We didn't.  If we wanted to change channels we had to turn a mechanical knob.  Their TV had a motor that turned that knob and when you pressed the button on the remote it made a loud clunk as it hit the detent for the next channel.  Very rudimentary but VERY cool.  Remotes have come a long way since then.  And I'm OLD.  

in high school my pioneer stereo had a removable face plate as well as a remote

[Drizzay 771]

Louisville Slugger "TPX", RedLine, Easton Reflex bats

The 90's were great!

[HellToupee 2,430]

25 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

3D printer 

This interests me . Do you own one? 

[NorthernVike 2,121]

Phonograph 

[Thornton Melon 661]

The wheel

[thegeneral 3,873]

1 hour ago, HellToupee said:

Drove in a friend’s Tesla recently with the latest FSD. Game changer . Totally blew my mind

This is a good one. Needed a new car in like 2019 or so. Thought I’d give the Tesla a whirl just to see. They put me in an AWD performance one and said see ya in a half hour. Was like a spaceship. 

[TimHauck 3,537]

27 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

This interests me . Do you own one? 

Yes

 

[supermike80 2,196]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

I'm gonna go way way back here.  I remember when I was like 8 years old or something.  I was at the house of a friend of the family and their TV had a .........remote control.  We didn't.  If we wanted to change channels we had to turn a mechanical knob.  Their TV had a motor that turned that knob and when you pressed the button on the remote it made a loud clunk as it hit the detent for the next channel.  Very rudimentary but VERY cool.  Remotes have come a long way since then.  And I'm OLD.  

Our first remote had a cord attached to it

[Strike 6,171]

1 minute ago, supermike80 said:

Our first remote had a cord attached to it

Dude, that was your Mom's vibrator.  

[cyclone24 1,993]

1 hour ago, cmh6476 said:

in high school my pioneer stereo had a removable face plate as well as a remote

Haha remember those. Aye..

[BiffTannen 1,305]

Flex Seal

[posty 2,876]

3 hours ago, Strike said:

I'm gonna go way way back here.  I remember when I was like 8 years old or something.  I was at the house of a friend of the family and their TV had a .........remote control.  We didn't.  If we wanted to change channels we had to turn a mechanical knob.  Their TV had a motor that turned that knob and when you pressed the button on the remote it made a loud clunk as it hit the detent for the next channel.  Very rudimentary but VERY cool.  Remotes have come a long way since then.  And I'm OLD.  

We had this...

https://i.redd.it/3g8gsvm3o4i61.jpg

[posty 2,876]

2 hours ago, supermike80 said:

Our first remote had a cord attached to it

Like this?

https://www.earlytelevision.org/images/it_remote.jpg

[supermike80 2,196]

Just now, posty said:

Like this?

https://www.earlytelevision.org/images/it_remote.jpg

Not quite that old.  I just remember that yeah it was a "remote" but you had to sit close to the TV to use it so it would change the channels  LOL