What a time to be alive! Technology in your everyday life that amazes you. (Potential stealth brag thread)

[Moggy]

I'm reading this thread while having a gooseberry fool. Astonishing

That's nothing, Photek can read, post, watch football, gooseberry fool and drive all at the same time.

[Death's Head]

I'm reading this thread while having a gooseberry fool. Astonishing

That's nothing, Photek can read, post, watch football, gooseberry fool and drive all at the same time.

...and he will be able to do all of this on his XBO, even though everyone else will claim that the features don't work.

[Tomous]

Photek, stop watching TV while driving, seriously.

[Moggy]

I'm reading this thread while having a gooseberry fool. Astonishing

That's nothing, Photek can read, post, watch football, gooseberry fool and drive all at the same time.

...and he will be able to do all of this on his XBO, even though everyone else will claim that the features don't work.

In glorious 720p while watching the other cars go by at 30fps.

[Dowbocop]

Has anyone read Ralph 124C41+ by Hugo Gernsback? The copy I read had a technology glossary at the back, and it's scary just how much this one book predicted in the 20s/30s.

strawberry floating incredible ending as well. Incredible...

[Squinty]

I'm looking forward to experiencing VR and self driving cars. It can't be long until the latter is around. Maybe 10 years or so

[Frank]

I had a go on VR earlier. Had to take my glasses off to get the headset on (which, weirdly meant that I couldn't see anything clearly. The screens are like a few mm away so they should be close enough to be clear but it obviously doesn't work like that...) and then I just walked straight through a car because the doors couldn't open.

Unimpressed, all in all. Going to try one of these Google Cardboard AR things out soon though. Hope that's a little better!

Self-driving cars already exist to a point. Unfortunately the trend towards semi-autonomy is going to result in far more people like Photek thinking they can take more of their attention away from the road because "the car just drives itself". Not yet, it doesn't. It's a stopgap I can't wait for us to get past.

[Poser]

We should be thankful for food blenders/liquidisers: they will, after all, enable Photek's future RTA victims to continue eating.

[Photek]

I listen to the game rather than watch it, 99% of radio commentary of the prem over here is location blocked so I put game on in car through car speakers. If I'm in traffic I'll glance at it but never while the car is moving.

[Hypes]

I listen to the game rather than watch it, 99% of radio commentary of the prem over here is location blocked so I put game on in car through car speakers. If I'm in traffic I'll glance at it but never while the car is moving.

And I'm sure the police will definitely believe that when they pull you over.

[Moggy]

I listen to the game rather than watch it, 99% of radio commentary of the prem over here is location blocked so I put game on in car through car speakers. If I'm in traffic I'll glance at it but never while the car is moving.

And I'm sure the police will definitely believe that when they pull you over.

[Ironhide]

The fact that we have handheld computing tech which is vastly more powerful than the computers of 20 years ago at a fraction of the price simply blows my mind.

My first PC was £800 (circa 1998) yet a cheap current £70 tablet can easily outperform it by an incredible amount, it's insane.

[Tafdolphin]

I don't have one myself, but I can't wrap my head around wireless chargers. strawberry floating magic

This. How the strawberry float these things work, never mind how a charger now costs slightly less than a Michael Mcintyre BluRay, is beyond me.

[Lime]

The amount of information and media that is literally seconds away is mindblowing.

"What was that old cartoon with a cat and a dog, with Richard Briers called?"

*Googles*

"Rhubarb and Custard. Let's watch some"

Seconds later, you're watching the thing you couldn't even remember the name of.

But then, minutes later...
"Meh... what else is there"

Attention span is shot as a result, for some reason.

[Johnny Ryall]

It's not superpowered but the Raspberry pi. £30 for a tiny PC that can run most gaming systems pre 2000? Ace. And that's just what I use it for, it's a modders dream. Would have blown my mind as a kid if that sort of power was available for that price and form factor.

[7256930752]

Trying to understand exactly how computers work has led to being amazed that anything works. Truly remarkable inventions.

I'm equally amazed at our current level of technology and worried that it is being taken for granted. Take traveling as an example, it's amazing how relatively cheap and quick it is to travel from to the other side of world. What if no alternative is found for aviation fuel and we're left with weeks on a boat as the only means of travel?

[Ironhide]

I don't have one myself, but I can't wrap my head around wireless chargers. strawberry floating magic

This. How the strawberry float these things work, never mind how a charger now costs slightly less than a Michael Mcintyre BluRay, is beyond me.

There's nothing magical about electromagnetic induction, electric toothbrushes have used it since the 90's.

[Moggy]

I don't have one myself, but I can't wrap my head around wireless chargers. strawberry floating magic

This. How the strawberry float these things work, never mind how a charger now costs slightly less than a Michael Mcintyre BluRay, is beyond me.

There's nothing magical about electromagnetic induction, electric toothbrushes have used it since the 90's.

Do they use magnets?

[Ironhide]

Yes.

[Rightey]

The amount of information and media that is literally seconds away is mindblowing.

"What was that old cartoon with a cat and a dog, with Richard Briers called?"

*Googles*

"Rhubarb and Custard. Let's watch some"

Seconds later, you're watching the thing you couldn't even remember the name of.

But then, minutes later...
"Meh... what else is there"

Attention span is shot as a result, for some reason.

This is the really big one for me, the fact that it is now so easy to find information. I remember reading something in this big 200 page document and I can just use control+F to find the exact words, before I would have had to look through the whole damn thing. Or if I want to learn something about Alaska, or cooking, or the first Prime Minister of Australia it is just a few clicks away, when before I would have had to walk down to the library and start looking through books.