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Which electric device made you go: "Woah!"
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British Monsoon
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My first MP3 player, which carried a whopping 32mb of data. That was almost half an album!
TheContact
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The first Dell PC my parents got for Christmas one way. Was our first PC. I was like =O
Android18a
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The N64 was a biggie for me. I remember before it came out we went to Toys R Us and they had a demo pod set up where you could play Mario 64 early. That was a pretty memorable moment of my youth. I think my little 13 year old mind was blown.
TwiztidElf
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The 160Gig iPod Classic.
The greatest electronic anything ever. I doubt it'll be topped in my lifetime.
All of your music on one tiny device that you can take anywhere.
So much joy.
The greatest electronic anything ever. I doubt it'll be topped in my lifetime.
All of your music on one tiny device that you can take anywhere.
So much joy.
my friend had a sony ericson smart phone years before the iphone ever came out. he used opera mini and irc while we were out having dinner and it was mindblowing at the time. that was the future before it happened to everyone.
edit: I think this was his first phone: http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_p800-326.php
to me personally, it was the original gameboy. I took it everywhere. shared games with everyone I knew.
for too long I had been "playing" those god awful tiger electronics games cause parents figured they were cheap.
edit: I think this was his first phone: http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_p800-326.php
to me personally, it was the original gameboy. I took it everywhere. shared games with everyone I knew.
for too long I had been "playing" those god awful tiger electronics games cause parents figured they were cheap.
clay_ghost
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Wii, DS, 3DS,Iphone.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
iPods. I had a walkman, and was like "Wow, neat. Wish I could skip songs like in the science fiction story books. Then I got a Discman and was like "Wow, neat. Wish I could listen to a song without it skipping 3 times."
Then I got an iPod and all was right with the world. There are no longer any frontiers to discover in portable music devices, save for the Johnny Mnemonic-esque skull implant. I'm going to wait for the 3.0 version of that though.
Then I got an iPod and all was right with the world. There are no longer any frontiers to discover in portable music devices, save for the Johnny Mnemonic-esque skull implant. I'm going to wait for the 3.0 version of that though.
megashock5
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I remember doing this exact thing, it was stunning. The other thing to remember about VHS is that bright, bold colors often contained noise whereas they stayed nice and pure on DVD.
I will also always remember the original iPhone reveal. Going in I was like, "what's Apple doing making a phone?" which quickly turned to, "that's not just a phone."
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Kindle.
That display just wowed my mind.
It's like a book, but with one page that continuously changes.
That display just wowed my mind.
It's like a book, but with one page that continuously changes.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
GL Quake was an eye opener.
InfiniteBento
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IPod Touch 1st Gen. It was my first touch screen device. It completely blew my mind that such a thing existed and was capable of so much. We've come a ridiculously long way since then so it seems lack luster looking back at it now.
Liberty4all
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Donkey Kong on the Coleco Vision ... Like having an arcade machine at home!
Playing Tribes 1 with an accelerated video card after years of consoles (graphic difference was like jumping from the stone age to the future).
The first time I saw a Plasma TV (10 grand to buy). Amazing.
First time I saw an Iphone.
Playing Tribes 1 with an accelerated video card after years of consoles (graphic difference was like jumping from the stone age to the future).
The first time I saw a Plasma TV (10 grand to buy). Amazing.
First time I saw an Iphone.
Just a few off the top of my head
The Amiga: Simply mind blowing at the time, so many colors, multitasking and so on, what a giant leap from the C=64 I had.
TurboGrafx 16: Coming from the NES, and seeing the HUGE sprites in China Warrior(shit game but great tech demo)
Laserdisc: The jump from VHS and pre DVD was amazing, and seeing it on a nice set through s-video was something to behold.
And one thing that didn't amaze me that much
The Internet: This did little for me as I had been doing the BBS thing since the C=64 days on a good ole 300baud modem.
The Amiga: Simply mind blowing at the time, so many colors, multitasking and so on, what a giant leap from the C=64 I had.
TurboGrafx 16: Coming from the NES, and seeing the HUGE sprites in China Warrior(shit game but great tech demo)
Laserdisc: The jump from VHS and pre DVD was amazing, and seeing it on a nice set through s-video was something to behold.
And one thing that didn't amaze me that much
The Internet: This did little for me as I had been doing the BBS thing since the C=64 days on a good ole 300baud modem.
POWERSPHERE
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4K Massive TV
Dyson Airblade
Dyson Fan
Magico Ultimate Speakers
Haha.
Kurt Angle
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iphone
game changer
game changer
thesoapster
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The Virtual Boy
crazy monkey
Banned
recently nintendo WII. That thing is just so good and fun.
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
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Nintendo 64 for sure.
I can't listen to music anymore without it. Everything sounds shit. Now I must buy a good audio system to go along with it.
I can't listen to music anymore without it. Everything sounds shit. Now I must buy a good audio system to go along with it.
HeartlessNobody213
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Definitely an Ipod Touch for me. It was my 1st Apple device, before that I had a basic ass mp3 player. Now I had a music player along with a web browser and could play apps as well. Really came in handy during my last years of high school.
terrisus
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<checks>
<sees that it came out when I was already doing my Master's>
<feels old>
My first 20gb iPod.
Wow I could keep more than 1000 songs probably, without carrying a bulk of CD's, then after that I had a CD walkman that could store about 100 mp3's on a blank CD remember those? I'd still carry several mp3 CD's I burnt around with me, or tapes before that.
But the iPod oh man, I still use mine everyday on the bus to work for the 1 hour journey each way.
I still wish apple would make an apple "i-Fi"their take on a mini hi-fi
With say 160gb built in drive at the minimum, and then a ipod dock as well. Apple sure missed something there.
Wow I could keep more than 1000 songs probably, without carrying a bulk of CD's, then after that I had a CD walkman that could store about 100 mp3's on a blank CD remember those? I'd still carry several mp3 CD's I burnt around with me, or tapes before that.
But the iPod oh man, I still use mine everyday on the bus to work for the 1 hour journey each way.
I still wish apple would make an apple "i-Fi"their take on a mini hi-fi
With say 160gb built in drive at the minimum, and then a ipod dock as well. Apple sure missed something there.
Like the hat?
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Gameboy Advance blew my mind when I first played it. I didn't know a handheld could look so good
LCD handhelds to gameboy to gbc to GBA. Was amazing.
LCD handhelds to gameboy to gbc to GBA. Was amazing.
sixteen-bit
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Tweet ur fridge activity, track opens, maintenance, etc I guess
The Elite
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I think I had that launcher/browser in DOS.
Oh, how did I forget: big arcade machines with hydraulics and such. Played my first one at a theater while waiting to watch Resident Evil back in the day. My friend got us kicked out when he climbed on top and started riding it like a mechanical bull while I made it thrash all over the place. Military town, bunch of sailors were gathered around cheering and shit.
Mine too.
I remember just fantasising about the lock screen after the iPod Touch was announced. It was just so futuristic at the time, yet obtainable. Big, beautiful screen (at the time) with 5 hours of video playback was amazing in early 2007. Then I jailbroke it (the appstore first arrived in OS2) and physics puzzle games that utilizes the accelerometer blew my mind again.
That picture is off a second gen device though. The first gen was more squared off with a square-ish antenna window while the second gen had a curved back with an oval antenna window. The second gen Touch was hilariously also faster than the iPhone 3G, its CPU and GPU were slightly overclocked while the first gen iPhone, Touch and 3G had the same clock speed. Very ironic when the present day iPod Touch has iPhone 4S HW.
That is one sexy keyboard.
GeordieMark
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Playing games on an HDTV for the first time. It was such a huge upgrade.
More recently, my Sonos system. I love having control of the music all over my house from my phone, or laptop.
Being able to make it start playing when I'm outside the house and my GF is in the front room to spook her, a la Gremlins, is kind of awesome.
More recently, my Sonos system. I love having control of the music all over my house from my phone, or laptop.
Being able to make it start playing when I'm outside the house and my GF is in the front room to spook her, a la Gremlins, is kind of awesome.
onadesertedisland
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Original game boy.
biggersmaller
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I feel lucky to be a 80s/90s kid - I feel like I saw mind blowing shit every year since first using an Apple II until the iPhone. Hell, I was more excited about CD ROM, Voodoo, N64 than I was about iWatch. I mean, there has been cool stuff since then, but now I'm just chasing the dragon.
zephervack
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Triple screen setup for PC games, once I saw one in real like, I just had to have it, its such a different experience and works with a lot of games and emulators, you really cant convey it with screens/videos, you have to sit in front of one and start seeing the world moving around you.
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