Dune style personal shields can't be invented soon enough.
Then knife fighting will make a big comeback.
Also:
FUCKING LASERS DUDE! Lasers will never NOT be cool.
Schizophrenia with a hint of messiah complex
I was under the impression that all wind-up turntables (I.e.: from the shellac records and steel needles and mechanical reproducers era) were using mechanical governors
Maybe I'm wrong though.
Never did I wish I'd been born 30 years earlier quite how when I saw 8 bit guy's video on the workings of an Apple II
I simply adore how tinkerable that thing seems to be.
I fucking hate cars, including electric ones... And I still agree. Combustion engines are cool as hell.
Computers making Fennec Fox noises at each other over the telephone line. And that connected you to the world.
Technology connections is the gent that inspired this thread. Was watching one of his videos about old camera flashes (LITERALLY TINY FLASHBANG GRENADES. WE USED TO USE FUCKING BOMBS TO TAKE PHOTOS IN THE DARK HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT???) and figured "huh... There are a lot of old inventions that might suck to use but are conceptually really cool, aren't there?"
Fun fact, he's in the fediverse! He's @techconnectify@mas.to over on mastodon.
It's ironic
A microsd card with 64 gigs worth of flac files is smaller, more reliable, and sounds better.
.... But minidiscs still LOOK like the future to me. Something about their shape and size just gives that vibe.
Edit: Phone autocorrect turned flac into 🚩
And I am sorry that you apparently don't know how to read
Cooler and better are different concepts, and literally everyone else got the idea.
LONG LIVE THE GIMP BELLPEPPER
This sounds like a gadget specifically designed to make people fall off their bikes and break their bones.
......... Cool.