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

always_tyred

ride_whenever wrote:

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.

Some rowing boats are constructed entirely of duck tape. This technology has now replaced boats made entirely from blobs of epoxy.

A bag is not a gadget.

Stuey01

Christophe3967 wrote:

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.

These exist, Camelbak make one. Check Wiggle.

mattybain

ride_whenever wrote:

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.

Ooh what is number 5, always interested in hearing about new media centre's. My WDTV is cool but doesn't like all my HD files

attica

1 Creative MP3 player, no need for bespoke software, just drag and drop then play, sweet
2 I borrowed a Garmin 705, want want want, in fact ths should really be number one
3 Bike
4 Other Bike
5 Other, other bike

il_principe

Attica wrote:

1 Creative MP3 player, no need for bespoke software, just drag and drop then play, sweet
2 I borrowed a Garmin 705, want want want, in fact ths should really be number one
3 Bike
4 Other Bike
5 Other, other bike

Well if anyone needs SatNav it's you Rob.

attica

Il Principe wrote:

Attica wrote:

1 Creative MP3 player, no need for bespoke software, just drag and drop then play, sweet
2 I borrowed a Garmin 705, want want want, in fact ths should really be number one
3 Bike
4 Other Bike
5 Other, other bike

Well if anyone needs SatNav it's you Rob.

Ooh that stings James, that stings. IIRC you were the one who strayed from the course at the Dragon Ride, I stayed on track all day OK, so I took the wrong route, but at least I followed the arrows

Christophe3967

Attica wrote:

Il Principe wrote:

Attica wrote:

1 Creative MP3 player, no need for bespoke software, just drag and drop then play, sweet
2 I borrowed a Garmin 705, want want want, in fact ths should really be number one
3 Bike
4 Other Bike
5 Other, other bike

Well if anyone needs SatNav it's you Rob.

Ooh that stings James, that stings. IIRC you were the one who strayed from the course at the Dragon Ride, I stayed on track all day OK, so I took the wrong route, but at least I followed the arrows

pots and kettles, boys

what's more to the point is the amount of time we spent waiting to get a beer at the end...

attica

yeah, the barmaid was fecking useless wasn't she

secretsam

Most modern technology is just the application of excessive cleverness for pointless reasons for braindead Joneses to boast about...<<gast, gasp>> [thinks: must try to be rational and calm] ...with the exception of:

1. Digital cameras - a genuine improvement

2. Mobile phones - useful and a possible lifesaver but NOT A FASHION ACCESSORY AND BLACKBERRIES (etc) ARE EVIL [thinks: so much for rational and calm]

3. hard drive recorders - see digital cameras

4. MP3 players - 20,000 songs in a matchbox? Come on!!

5. LED lights - hugely better and lighter and longer lasting and NO DYNAMO MAKING ME FEEL EVEN LESS FIT AND HEAVIER AND <<dragged off by men in white coats>>

Bassjunkieuk

1. Dishwasher - 2 adults + 5 kids = A sh!t-ton of washing up, this reclaimed freebie saves me HOURS of manual labor each week, even if I have to run it 3 times a day when busy, this then allows me to spend more time on no. 2

2. Laptop + Broadband - I wonder how the world worked with dial-up. I've got 20Mbit 24/7 access to everything from the most tedious details of my friends social escapades on Facebook, tons of music on Spotify and enough video to see me to my death bed on Youtube. Also Bikeradar :-)

3. Ubuntu - Not strictly a physical thing, but it does mean I can re-use all the old computers I have around the house and not rely on somewhat-less-then-legal copies of Windows XP or have to fork out loads of cash! Also each new release doesn't require a quantum leap in computing hardware to run it :-)

4. My bike - I love it, as a means to get around and have fun I can safely say that it's superb. Just last weekend I managed to get from Esher to Hove on it and the only fuel that was needed was 1 bottle of Lucozade Sport, a bottle of orange squash, 1 Clif Bar and 2/3 of a packet of Clif Shot Bloxs - yes it might have taken a *tiny* bit longer then taking the car but the fun I had during the ride and the immense feeling of satisfaction at the end more then made up for it :-D

Christophe3967

Attica wrote:

yeah, the barmaid was fecking useless wasn't she

Hopeless - the pint she served me fell over on the grass and she couldn't add up for toffee... :roll:

lost_in_thought

1. 'Smart' phone
2. Bicycle
3. Sky+
4. Garmin 705
5. Bang and Olufsen remote control for my entire life.

Christophe3967

Stuey01 wrote:

Christophe3967 wrote:

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.

These exist, Camelbak make one. Check Wiggle.

Ordered a couple thanks. Now winter's arrived I'll be using them for coffee :?

jimmypippa

Always Tyred wrote:

ride_whenever wrote:

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.

Some rowing boats are constructed entirely of duck tape. This technology has now replaced boats made entirely from blobs of epoxy.

A bag is not a gadget.

Brown's Boathouse in Durham was still making wooden racing shells in the mid 1990s, I think it has gone now.

It was like a timewarp, I half expected to see a Gypsy Moth or Sopwith Camel being serviced in there....

I have seen it argued that the belt and bag were two of the most important inventions for humanity (fire and the spear included)... especilly if you count "putting clay inside and making a water carrier".

They enabled far more efficient foraging, and a "modern" hunter-gatherer lifestyle.