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What Technology or Gadget has been Cool or Useful?
I love my strawberry stem remover from Pampered Chef.
Totally the Internet. I don't know how I'd do my job without it. Especially now that I have a one-person office. I don't know what I'd do without an Internet full of colleagues and reference materials. I might have chosen a different profession.
Of course my photography skills are much improved by digital cameras and photo software, and at my last job having a cell phone was a sanity-saver, but overall? Internet.
Of course my photography skills are much improved by digital cameras and photo software, and at my last job having a cell phone was a sanity-saver, but overall? Internet.
Gotta agree with the spark of creation. The Internet.
Artegal,
The transistor - without it none of the things in your list would exist. (Can you imagine an iPod made with vacuum tubes? What's a vacuum tube, I hear you ask .....)
Yodrak
The transistor - without it none of the things in your list would exist. (Can you imagine an iPod made with vacuum tubes? What's a vacuum tube, I hear you ask .....)
Yodrak
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 23 2006, 11:56 PM) 
What Technology or Gadget has been Cool or Useful?
Google and Wikopedia!
The internet for sure, but since I spend so much time there with my husband the TIVO is number two, can't miss Days of our Lives!!!!
QUOTE(Yodrak @ Jul 24 2006, 05:15 PM)
Artegal,
The transistor - without it none of the things in your list would exist. (Can you imagine an iPod made with vacuum tubes? What's a vacuum tube, I hear you ask .....)
Yodrak
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 23 2006, 11:56 PM)
What Technology or Gadget has been Cool or Useful?
Yodrak I didn't mean that far back--I was thinking from 1995 til today--just the past 10 years.
Artegal,
The cool device for reading your mind has yet to be invented.
Yodrak
Artegal,
The transistor - without it none of the things in your list would exist. (Can you imagine an iPod made with vacuum tubes? What's a vacuum tube, I hear you ask .....)
Yodrak
Yodrak I didn't mean that far back--I was thinking from 1995 til today--just the past 10 years.
The cool device for reading your mind has yet to be invented.
Yodrak
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 25 2006, 11:29 PM)
QUOTE(Yodrak @ Jul 24 2006, 05:15 PM)
Artegal,
The transistor - without it none of the things in your list would exist. (Can you imagine an iPod made with vacuum tubes? What's a vacuum tube, I hear you ask .....)
Yodrak
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 23 2006, 11:56 PM)
What Technology or Gadget has been Cool or Useful?
Yodrak I didn't mean that far back--I was thinking from 1995 til today--just the past 10 years.
I voted for internet because I wouldn't have met my hubby without it 
I think we are biased for internet here lol
The Internet. Tracy's brother works for a radio station in Cagayan De Oro, so she gave me the URL so I could listern to his show live and got to hear my, future daughter, Vivian and her school friends singing on the radio!!!!! 
QUOTE(Yodrak @ Jul 25 2006, 11:38 PM)
Artegal,
The cool device for reading your mind has yet to be invented.
Yodrak
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 25 2006, 11:29 PM)
QUOTE(Yodrak @ Jul 24 2006, 05:15 PM)
Artegal,
The transistor - without it none of the things in your list would exist. (Can you imagine an iPod made with vacuum tubes? What's a vacuum tube, I hear you ask .....)
Yodrak
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 23 2006, 11:56 PM)
What Technology or Gadget has been Cool or Useful?
Yodrak I didn't mean that far back--I was thinking from 1995 til today--just the past 10 years.
Not so fast--I voted for TiVo, because now my parents and other elderly people can record Matlock and Law and Order, and Oprah without having to call their children to reset the blinking 12:00 nor fetch a blank VHS tape or set up the time date and channel for programming. Thank god for TiVo. And the TiVo does read your mind sort of--it has an intuitive technology that after a while from your recording patterns it will start to record stuff for you just in case you wanted to see these similiar or related programs--its been pretty spot on for my parents preferences.
I wonder if the makers of Google and Yahoo or even MSN will one day make a TiVo for the Web. That is a device that will auto surf and down load cached pages to your Hard Drive for faster viewing etc. That seems to be the next logical step in Search Engines.
internet
QUOTE(MarilynP @ Jul 26 2006, 01:14 AM)
I voted for internet because I wouldn't have met my fiance without it
Ditto
PS: edited the hubby part to fiance
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