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[titusandronicus]

The UI of the OG iPhone was years ahead of everything else. Everything else was a pixelted and clunky mess.

 

[-MD-]

N64, PS2 and 360 all blew me away when I saw (Goldeneye, GTA3, PDZ/COD2) being played on them.

I think me being 7-14 years old for all 3 of those helped. Nothing has made me say "wow" since.

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

The 3DS kinda blew my mind the first time I used it.

 

[Rapstah]

Menus on a DVD were a pretty cool moment. I was a sucker for those cool, completely worthless animations where it takes 20 seconds to do anything and most of the movie is spoiled in the background.

 

[sonycowboy]

Atari 2600 (had the odyssey before that)
VHS (and buying Star Wars for ~$150 in 1980-1981?)
Original Mac back in 1984
Playstation
PSP
iPhone

Those were all pretty woah...

On a more "devicey" side, I remember playing with a old school touch screen remote with a full home theater system in the early ninetees that I thought was the absolute shit...

And in high school ~1985, we had Japanese Foreign exchange students who brought the most miniaturized cassette tape player I had ever seen and it looks so freaking slick... Much better than the plastic Walkman's I had seen. It seemed barely bigger than the cassette itself and had a motorized loading mechanism.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

When Intel introduced Core 2 Duo CPUs. That was a big leap in processor performance and a big break from the Platinum 4 days.

Dreamcast. I remember not believing that it was in-game footage that was running of Shenmue. That was really bizarre.

Ipad. Everyone hated that product. It was going to be the biggest flop, oversized iphone without calling lol. I was really surprised when I finally tried it. Every device since has been an imitation of the Ipad.


Iphone 4S - I came from a Symbian Nokia phone. SYMBIAN. I AINT TALKING ABOUT SEX TOYS, here people.

 

[O.DOGG]

I think the first time I saw a Kindle I was amazed at that screen. It looked like a sticker. If there ever was a device that I could say I loved, the Kindle would be the one. Great technology.

 

[Dog Problems]

I could maybe understand a TV on a fridge but why on earth would you need Wifi?

I've got to watch Duran Duran music videos on YouTube while filling my glass with water. Having to hold a device to do this is unacceptable.

 

[texhnolyze]

Flying car in old movies. Wow.

 

[Phaethon0017]

First mp3 player I had held a whopping 500mb of music. Couldn't believe how many CDs were on it.

Also the PSP having PS1/2 graphics on such a small device after having a Gameboy for years left me pretty stupid.

 

[Feep]

Oculus Rift Crescent Bay prototype.

 

[Mohonky]

Are these made for movie theaters?

Purely stereo. Movie theatre speakers are usually just big boxes.

 

[striferser]

Nintendo DS.
Dat handheld innovation

 

[HGStormy]

Oblivion on an Xbox 360 after playing Morrowind on an original Xbox for years.

 

[lem0n]

Tonight, playing with my brand new Wii U. ZombiU made me go woah at some of the gamepad features

 

[aygomyownroad]

Booting up my Mega Drive on Christmas morning. First console... Woah!

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

I never thought I would say this but I kinda miss all the "WIN A PSP" and "GET A FREE PSP TODAY" ads. There was so many of them back then, they sorta became family. I have never felt like that about any electronic aggressive spam before!!

 

[The Dennis System]

MP3 player. The jump from a tape playing Walkman to an MP3 player was unbelievably huge.

 

[JHM]

My first MP3 player Diamond Rio and OG iPhone, been iPhone user ever since.

 

[Zoned]

IPod classic. That thing was revolutionary.

 

[DeadTsar]

Oculus Rift was the first tech that made me go Woah this shit is the future.

 

[PaulExcellent]

When I first got my Galaxy S3 after switching from Windows Mobile/Blackberry.
That shit was straight-up woah. lol10

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

In order, probably

NES
Genesis
N64
First 3dfx card (Quake II omg)
OG iPhone

And I'm hoping someday to be amazed by being in a Tesla D.

 

[Phinor]

In the past 20 years or so (ie. after the first consoles/C64/Amiga), I can really think of two devices. The major one being an SSD drive. Complete game changer for desktop usage. Hard drives were the bottleneck pretty much from the moment PC was created and SSD goes a long way towards fixing/mitigating that issue.

The other was my first Nintendo device ever, 3DS XL. The first game I tried with the 3D on was Fire Emblem and it was a unique experience. I felt like I was watching/playing a tabletop game. Unlike with 3D movies, I think the 3D on 3DS can enhance gameplay. 3D on movies on the other hand is usually terrible or just not needed (although to be fair, the 3D tech used in Finnish movie theaters might just be garbage.)

Looking forward to trying/buying Oculus Rift.

edit: Ok, first 3D graphics cards were quite amazing too. Mostly because performance went through the roof, many games suddenly became playable and fluid.

 

[Phat Michael]

Dude dyson vacuums are cool and that bladeless fan too. I always see it at costco. Fuck, do those speakers transport you to a different dimension?

Are these made for movie theaters?

Nope. You would run them off monoblocks and have them as stereo speakers.

if you REALLY wanted to you could have them as your two fronts as part of a 5.1 but it would be overkill.

My Dream 5.1 setup is having the Magico Q7s as front

and then the QSUB 18" as my woofer. It weighs 550 pounds and has 8000w inside it.

then my centre

Then Q1s as my rears

That's a lot of money right here. Doesnt even take into account the monoblocks needed to run the things, the receiver and of course the Nordost Odin Cables, which cost 15,000 pounds per 1m.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

The electric razor, We trust them enough to put them on our faces at a regular basis.

 

[Chuckie]

They order food for you when you get low...e.g. you only have 3 eggs left, it orders eggs.

I think.

How the fuck does it know you only have 3 eggs left?

 

[WickedCobra03]

The first-time I used a Macintosh. A 10GB iPod which just seemed nuts (I had an mp 3 player before that, but they were like those Rio brand with something like 32 mb, being able to carry mostly all my music around and1 time without changing discs or burning discs weekly was amazing). The first time I used a PSP, it was truely ahead of of its time.

 

[Kabouter]

I was pretty blown away by the first computer I used, which was an IBM XT PC I believe.

After that probably most blown away by my first mp3 player, I couldn't believe I could fit like five CDs on something barely bigger than a lighter.

Most recently, the Oculus Rift. While it made me nauseous within seconds and thus probably isn't for me, I was blown away by how 'real' moving around in worlds feels.

 

[caramac]

hmmm, probably my 32gb ipod touch. I have an iphone now but I still use my ipod to connect to my car head unit for all my music needs.

 

[Faddy]

I have never been Woahed by a piece of technology probably because of the gradual increase of tech in my life. Had a C64, then NES etc. Saw clunky phones become svelter, software become better. Symbian S60 kicked iPhone OS for features so it wasn't blowing my mind good when I saw an iPhone.

Even the 5K iMac I was using the other day was men, it seemed all sorts of clunky. Seriously OS X is a usability disaster compared to Win7 or Ubuntu Unity.

MiniDisc was probably the closest because portable CD players sucked balls and carrying a music collection was a nightmare.

I have been woahed by things I have only seen in videos. Railguns and Maglev trains are amazing.

 

[Window]

An HP spectrum analyser, well that's the most recent one which came to mind.
Really liked my Surface Pro (2) when I first got it but the wow factor is pretty much non-existent at this point.

 

[Jindrax]

The latest one was when I realized I could just plug in ANY headphones in my PS4 controller and that would actually work.

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

My first laptop iPhone 4s any nintendo does the internet count the router just me the world lol

 

[Renekton]

Soundblaster and 3Dfx Voodoo

 

[kudoboi]

Android 4.0

and

iOS 7

and most recently...

android L

 

[neorej]

CD players and CDs. My mind could not comprehend this amount of music on such a small surface.

 

[dirtywhirlwind]

I was blown away by fax machines. It felt like magic that they actually worked.

 

[lewisgone]

Most things, I still am impressed by most new electronic devices. I remember being amazed by the Nintendo Wii, even though it actually had quite limited motion controls. I was impressed all over again when Wii Motionplus came out though.

When I first got an iPod touch I thought that was amazing, and since I rarely update my phone I am always I pressed with how far they've come. Recently I tried out my mums iPhone 5S and TouchID is incredible. I'm excited to get a phone that supports it.

Also the day we got an HDTV was a good one. But I didn't see HD picture quality until a few months later when we got a PS3 (we only had basic TV and a DVD Player along with a Wii). Just seeing the simple ribbon home screen background booting in 1080p I was so blown away.

Some other ones would be the GBA wireless adaptor and anytime I play around with an iMac in a store. And I'll hopefully be impressed when I try out a PS4 this weekend for the first time. It's not hard to do.

 

[GamerJM]

As someone who was only born in 1994, the Wii and the HDTV are honestly the only pieces of technology I've experienced this with. The iPhone just seemed like a logical upgrade from what we had before, and at first I thought the lack of buttons made it seem like a downgrade in some respects (I still kind of feel this way, I miss buttons on my phones).

 

[marimorimo]

blown away by our washing machine. It has a touch screen, can connect with a smartphone app, can wash, spin dry, and dry clothes in one go, it has a feature where it can remove the stink from unwashable stuff like clothes and shoes, is self-cleaning so it doesn't grow gunk and mold inside, and a dozen other features I haven't even tried yet.

But the reason I bought it was because it was gentle on clothes and finished a wash-spin dry cycle in 30 minutes. (I prefer hanging my clothes to dry even if it has a dryer feature).

 

[Nodnol]

A few spring to mind.

- N64 - Powering up SM64 was just a glorious hallmark in my life.

- LG Viewty - My first experience with a decent touchscreen. First time I felt that it made sense.

- Streaming YouTube to my TV. I still find wireless connectivity blows my mind at times. I know it's simple, and is nothing special these days, but it's still awesome.

 

[Zombine]

The Nintendo Revolution absolutely blew my mind when it was first revealed. The Wii tried something we never really saw before outside of light gun shooters, and it was wild (for a little while at least) to have the screen clumsily respond to my movements.

 

[dbztrk]

Samsung's 4K OLED.

 

[hohoXD123]

OG iPod touch. First taste of proper Internet on the go along with a decent touchscreen.

 

[kurahador]

Nintendo DS - I was like...damn, gaming on 2 screens really works.

 

[Volimar]

Oblivion on an Xbox 360 after playing Morrowind on an original Xbox for years.

Yeah. Coming out of the sewer for the first time and seeing everything was just....wow.

 

[Monochromaticx]

The first iphone
Dyson products
Gameboy color
Noise canceling headphones
Electric Guitar

 

[neojubei]

The OG iPhone. I remember buying it off craigslist from someone after the 3G model came out and being so impressed with the touchscreen. At the time it felt like magic.

 

[lazygecko]

Modular synths are great for impressing the uninitiated. Makes you think they're more impressive than they really are.