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

gtvlusso

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?!?!?!?!

always_tyred

Mudguards.

Rich158

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

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)

Deadeye Duck

OK, this will take me a while, I have a lot of gadgets

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.

Gazzaputt

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

blackberry (or smart phone in general)
Internet - PC is useless without it
mouse - make it so much easlier to work with on a PC

Cafewanda

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

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

_Brun_

Slingbox and Squeezebox Boom.

Both equally brilliant and indispensable.

alfablue

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").

woodyonthebeach

1 BlackBerry
2 Macbook Pro
3 Girlfriend
4 Trek 1.9
5 Microwave

CiB

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

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

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!

Christophe3967

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

1. Laptop/internet
2. Bicycle

Um, off licence?

sampras38

Deadeye Duck wrote:

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

Amen to that..my misses is the same...

Feltup

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!

R_T_A

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.

DonDaddyD

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.

woodyonthebeach

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

R_T_A

A sound attempt, but ultimately doomed to failure

roger_merriman

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

1. Dishwasher
2. Dishwasher
3. Dishwasher
4. Dishwasher
5 Sky+

linsen

my phone, the internet, the apple corer and segmenter that makes my son eat apples (no front teeth you see)

er, that's it

amnezia

bottle opener :oops:

prawny

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

Deadeye Duck

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.

prawny

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!

moonio

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!

ride_whenever

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.