Best Gadget/Most useful thinig in your life - Friday Fun

gtvlusso
gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
edited July 2009 in Commuting chat
My top five:

1, Soft close toilets seat - you won't hear a loo seat slam in my house
2, Converse all star shoes/boots - easy to wear and dry out quick
3, Blackberry - see who's working on a Sunday!
4, 6 way m*therflipper of a Hi fi system - feel the bass in my house
5, Black and Decker workmate - years old and very abused, but does the needful for bike maint and house refurb

Am I getting old?!?!?!?!
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Mudguards.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    My top 5 would be

    1 - My I Pod, now I can have my entire CD collection to hand wherever I go, plus all the podcasts I want - bloody fantastic. I'm back into music big time.

    2 - Digital Cameras, although I'd still love a dark room for B+W prints, digital is fantastic for it's convenience

    3 - The internet, how did I manage to survive 30 odd years without it :shock:

    4 - My old ally commuter bike, what can I say, loyal entirely trustworthy, she never lets me down and looks after me. Who needs a woman when a bike os this faithful :wink:

    5 - SPD's, after years on flats I finally feel like I'm getting oodles of power and can climb hills like Pantani (maybe not)
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • Deadeye Duck
    Deadeye Duck Posts: 419
    OK, this will take me a while, I have a lot of gadgets :lol:

    1) Macbook - I'd be lost without it.
    2) Turtle Beach X1 Headset - Means the gf doesn't hear the xbox and only me shouting my head off, and I get super crisp sound and the abilitly to tell where people are when I'm shooting baddies on xbox live
    3) Wireless unit - no more standing on leads and ripping the jack socket out my guitar!
    4) Backpack with internal ipod dock/telescopic headphones/controls on strap. - boys will be boys
    5) saw with laser guide - You will not believe how useful this is when you're DIYing.
    Schwinn Fastback Comp : FCN 5
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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    1. Gaggia bean to cup machine couldn't live without it.

    2. Laptop, life would be pointless without it

    3. Garmin 705

    4. Virgin +

    5. 3rd hand cable tool.
  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    blackberry (or smart phone in general)
    Internet - PC is useless without it
    mouse - make it so much easlier to work with on a PC
    "It is not impossible, its just improbable"

    Specialized Rockhopper Pro Disc 08
  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Mine are:
      1. Bike 2. Internet 3. microwave 4. Local chinese takeaway who delivers and accepts my cheques when I'm short of cash
  • Deadeye Duck
    Deadeye Duck Posts: 419
    Oh, I'd like to add:
    6) my girlfriend. She has the ability to find vouchers/loopholes in order to get discount absolutely everywhere. I don't think I've ever seen her pay full price for something since I met her :lol:
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Slingbox and Squeezebox Boom.

    Both equally brilliant and indispensable.
  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    1) Gaggia Classic espresso machine
    2) Laptop and broadband, work extranet - working from home :)
    3) Nokia N82 with Sports Tracker, Nokia Maps, camera and calendar
    4) Fenix L2D CE Q5
    5) Topfield PVR ("Toppy").
  • 1 BlackBerry
    2 Macbook Pro
    3 Girlfriend
    4 Trek 1.9
    5 Microwave
    The doctor said I needed to start drinking more whiskey. Also, I’m calling myself ‘the doctor’ now
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    In no order

    Freeview HDD recorder. The freeview equivalent of Sky+

    Podcasts & Walkman, mainly for radio comedies [Fighting Talk anyone?] & 70's prog bands

    Bike computer - pulls everything together, couldn't ride as well without it.

    Router & hub - opens up a whole range of ideas & possibilities for joining PCs, external HDDs, printers, home spun web server etc for ease of use & sensible places to store files.

    Wife. Mine preferably. And boys for playing football with, & throwing foam bombs at from behind the shed. What do you mean grow up?
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    iPhone with Sky+ App and all my calendars synced.
    Macbook Pro
    Monster HiFi - Power amps, pre amps etc etc. Boooooom.
    Garmin 705
    Canon Digital SLR
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    Wiggle!
  • lastant
    lastant Posts: 526
    In no particular order...

    * PS3 - with a 1Tb hard drive plugged into it got all my media sorted through the telly
    * iPhone - no longer need to carry iPod out with my mobile, genuinely useful features on it too
    * Graphics tablet - dear God I do wonder how I managed to edit photos and do graphic work in the past...!
    * Pure Mini ONE radio - yeah it's small and the it doesn't go up too loud, but with the battery pack plugged in I can take it anywhere round the house

    Erm...think I'm stuck at four!
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  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    Ice dispenser = chilled PSP22 at the press of a button. :) Sadly only for about 30 minutes in this heat. :(

    I think there's a market for a thermos type bidon - I really hate drinking tepid water.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    1. Laptop/internet
    2. Bicycle

    Um, off licence?
  • sampras38
    sampras38 Posts: 1,917
    Oh, I'd like to add:
    6) my girlfriend. She has the ability to find vouchers/loopholes in order to get discount absolutely everywhere. I don't think I've ever seen her pay full price for something since I met her :lol:

    Amen to that..my misses is the same... :lol:
  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    OK not gadgets as such but I couldn't live without:-

    Surfboard
    Kitesurf kites and harness
    (can live without kitesurfboard as long as I have my surfboard)
    Climbing kit
    Felt F55

    Understanding fiancee (this is how cool she is, she is letting me take the bike on the honeymoon so I can ride some of the classic dolomite passes!)

    but if it has to be gadgets then:

    Petzl headtorch is indispensible.
    Ipod shuffle etc just the best bits of kit and saved me in the Nepal when I was suffering from sleep apneoa. If you don't know what this is then imagine waking up in a state where it feels like you have held your breath for as long as you can but then when you go to take a breath you can only do it through a straw. Seriously scary but a bit of cafe del mar on the ipod soon calmed me back down and allowed me to fall asleep again.
    Altimeter watch great for navigating in the hills and really helped when giving the mountain rescue team the location of a cliff fall victim.
    Mobile phone any one as long as it allows me to make calls, no more phone boxes hurrah!
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

    Felt F55 - 2007
    Specialized Singlecross - 2008
    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
    Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    1 Spandex
    2 Electronic air guitar
    3 Spare bubble for spirit level
    4 Generic cardboard box
    5 Edible panties

    I challenge you all to find fault with these.
    Giant Escape R1
    FCN 8
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    1. My mobile phone - how did the world work without it?
    2. Personal desktop computer/laptop
    3. TV - with freeview
    4. The concept of delivery to an address

    5. I reserve the right to hold a space for five just in case it hasn't been invented yet. :wink:
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  • R_T_A wrote:
    1 Spandex
    Depends who's wearing it and whatthe occasions behind wearing it is
    R_T_A wrote:
    2 Electronic air guitar
    As long as its not to loud
    R_T_A wrote:
    3 Spare bubble for spirit level
    Like wise to the the below
    R_T_A wrote:
    4 Generic cardboard box
    Cant think of anything
    R_T_A wrote:
    5 Edible panties
    Depends who's eating/wearing them. PS all panties are edible just some are more chewy than other
    R_T_A wrote:
    I challenge you all to find fault with these.

    I have tried, but more than likely crashed and burned
    The doctor said I needed to start drinking more whiskey. Also, I’m calling myself ‘the doctor’ now
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    A sound attempt, but ultimately doomed to failure :wink:
    Giant Escape R1
    FCN 8
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    - Terry Pratchett.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    iPhone not a bad phone and a okay computer a bit limted but fun never the less. The whole package though is quite revolustionary.

    DSLR even old ones are great fun partically with Infa red which is fun and no more fire and guess!

    I don't like bike gadgets so......
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    1. Dishwasher
    2. Dishwasher
    3. Dishwasher
    4. Dishwasher
    5 Sky+

    :D
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    my phone, the internet, the apple corer and segmenter that makes my son eat apples (no front teeth you see)

    er, that's it
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    bottle opener :oops:
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    linsen wrote:
    my phone, the internet, the apple corer and segmenter that makes my son eat apples (no front teeth you see)

    er, that's it

    Ooh ooh, I've got one of them apple things on my desk it's ace I don't gets bits of apple skin stuck in my teef :D
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  • Deadeye Duck
    Deadeye Duck Posts: 419
    but but but, half the fun of eating an apple is seeing how much of it you can eat while holding onto the top bit and bottom bit. Bonus points for making it look like one from an 80s cartoon. :D
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    But you get extra fun when the bottom of the apple is slanted you can end up with a slightly curved core that looks like a willy, tee hee!
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  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    Being a bit of a gadget freak my latest purchase has to be the bestest one of all.
    An internet radio 'Pure Evoke Flow', you can listen to any internet radio station on it, podcasts, bbc listen again, it can stream music from you computer, it has DAB, the list it endless. It also connects to a website www.purelounge.com where you can organise all your fave stations and shows etc. Its truly a revolution in radio listening!


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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    1. My NC10 laptop
    2. Crumpler bag for carrying the above, in all weathers.
    3. Gerber multitool
    4. Duck tape (fixes everything including rowing boats)
    5. The new media centre pc in the flat, does everything from one remote, including turning on the tv.