Years ago I worked at an electronics store and have seen some very interesting products over the years with some being very useful.
Not sure how to do a poll on here but wanted to see how people matched on the ownership of some of these useful devices .
Have you ever owned a My (answers)
-PDA? Yes, I had a Palm IIIe
-DVD-Recorder? Yes. Successor to VCR sure didn’t last long… 😖
-WebTV? No. Interactive TV in the days of dial-up. 🙂
-3D Television? No
-Raspberry PI? No but I want to.
-Internet Radio Player? No This would be fun especially if it also had am/FM tuner
I guess it depends on what counts as a PDA. Would you count a Blackberry? They sold them as PDAs when I got my first BB. But it wasn’t really at all like a PalmPilot or one of those Motorola dudes.
DVD-R big time. I specifically got a recorder as my first player since I knew I would be ripping discs a lot.
WebTV came out when I was too young to afford a TV, and my parents wouldn’t have gone for anything like that even if I begged.
Never had or wanted a 3D TV, as my first time hearing about them was literally seeing them in action and the effect was headache inducing. The Nintendo 3DS used the same tech, and I always kept the 3D slider at the minimum.
I do want a Raspberry Pi or some other micro computer; I just need a project and reason to get one. I have a 3D printer so I have too many awesome choices I could try.
I might have gotten an internet radio player… If I knew of their existence back when they would have been relevant. I was big time into Winamp’s net radio scene in high school. Even ran my own. Reading your list was the first time I was made aware of them, though.
I am 38. I’ve never been on the bleeding edge, but I have tended to be an early adopter. If enough people try a thing and say it’s cool, I come check it out. lol
At the height of PDA popularity the average person had a separate device for their phone calls. Generally speaking a PDA in 2000 I would consider a portable handheld device with a stylus but didn’t have telephony capabilities.
Today a personal digital assistant the lines have been blurred.