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Reminds me of that one portable PS1 that guy made, the buzzsaw. I think it was a PS1. Really cool tech. I like how the spindle rotates to let you play singles or full cds.
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The Dynospere; a one wheeled car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD-SN3C4h4
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Someone might be able to help me here: A few weeks ago I noticed the screen on my car stereo started to display the station name instead of frequency. I thought this was cool, but today noticed that it changes for whatever song is playing. It's not a DAB radio and really interested in it. I'm sure it's old tech for Europe and US but brand new for me! Saves me trying to Shazam a song I like to find out what it is.
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Dec 1, 2015 12:22
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It's part of RDS, and I think it's kinda neat too 
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Dec 1, 2015 12:27
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Some radio stations at least used to display the score with RDS if they were broadcasting a sportsing event which is cool I guess.
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Dec 1, 2015 12:43
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Stations here mostly use RDS to display text ads instead of anything useful. 
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Dec 1, 2015 12:57
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Collateral Damage posted:Stations here mostly use RDS to display text ads instead of anything useful. That's the dumbest idea ever since literally no-one keeps looking at their radio while listening to it.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:06
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Nobody has ever accused marketing people of having good ideas.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:10
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KozmoNaut posted:It's part of RDS, and I think it's kinda neat too Thats it! for some silly reason I had 'Station ID' in my head and thats another ballpark. I found it interesting that my car stereo would read it and it actually worked, maybe a second lag between songs but hey! its cool. When reception went poo poo between towns it reverted haha. I guess Now I've moved to within blocks of my work I havent really used the car that much.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:32
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I enjoy making silly poo poo, so I'm always on the lookout for design inspiration and found this place: http://future-forms.com/     I like how they have a "Novelty" section. As opposed to all other very serious and staid designs.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:13
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I've been browsing that site and I'm amazed by how many of these products I've owned or at least handled, back when they were new. That Toot-a-loop radio was such a piece of poo poo but it was certainly unique. I can still remember when digital watches started playing tunes and one at the local department store could beep out "Yellow rose of Texas" which was entertaining, but a little weird for being sold in Canada. EDIT: No loving way! How is it possible the internet remembers this no name watch from... 1979? 1980? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKFaO206SU Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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Dick Trauma posted:I've been browsing that site and I'm amazed by how many of these products I've owned or at least handled, back when they were new. That Toot-a-loop radio was such a piece of poo poo but it was certainly unique. I can still remember when digital watches started playing tunes and one at the local department store could beep out "Yellow rose of Texas" which was entertaining, but a little weird for being sold in Canada. There's definitely a handful of those things I remember floating around the house when I was a small child. I even had that portable microscope, or at least a knockoff version of it, and it may very well still be in a box somewhere.
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Iron Crowned posted:There's definitely a handful of those things I remember floating around the house when I was a small child. I even had that portable microscope, or at least a knockoff version of it, and it may very well still be in a box somewhere. Seeing all that reminded me of trips to the Service Merchandise when I was very young. Which in turn got me thinking about how weird that was.  Which was a catalog retailer, not unlike Sears (when Sears still did the mail order catalogs), but instead of having retail stores, they operated "Catalog Showrooms." So instead of going into the store, picking what you wanted, paying and then leaving; the contents of their catalog were on display and you could then place your catalog order in store to be shipped to you. They had some portion of the warehouse on site, because you could also get things that day and they'd come out on this conveyor belt. Even when I was younger it just seemed ludicrous.
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They had one of these in my area when I was a little kid. My parents took me there and let me choose something from the catalog. I asked for the 6 Million Dollar Man! All they had was Oscar Goldman.  At least I enjoyed his exploding briefcase.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA6wa_tM7LI EDIT: Man, this really looks like a parody.
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I loved Service Merchandise. That store, Hill's, and a place called Brendle's (which was also a catalog showroom like Service Merchandise, and also featured a diamond in the logo) were my favorite stores to visit when I was a kid.
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Athenry posted:Seeing all that reminded me of trips to the Service Merchandise when I was very young. Which in turn got me thinking about how weird that was. There was a place like this called Consumers, too. I think it was more basic though just an area with a bunch of catalogues and I think a jewelry displace case. You'd fill out some card with what you wanted and, like Service Merchandise, it'd come out on a conveyor belt and they'd ring you up. I guess maybe it was cheaper because it had less overhead.
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Weren't the Gateway and Dell stores that briefly existed that way as well? You'd go into the store, look at the merchandise and customize your order and then it'd be shipped to you?
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Dec 4, 2015 22:45
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There was also BEST, which worked kinda like that. My uncle worked for them before they went out of business and I loved going through the scratch & dent room. I got a lot of stuff that would fit this thread there, too. Like an electronic organizer (made by Sharp or Casio probably) that I thought was seriously hot poo poo back in the mid 90s (yes, storing all that information in volatile memory was a fantastic idea, really).
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Ah yes, Service Merchandise. I don't remember how long it took to ship your stuff, but I know I used to wait 4 weeks when I mail ordered video games. Stuff moved slowly back then. Magnus Praeda posted:There was also BEST, which worked kinda like that. My uncle worked for them before they went out of business and I loved going through the scratch & dent room. I got a lot of stuff that would fit this thread there, too. Like an electronic organizer (made by Sharp or Casio probably) that I thought was seriously hot poo poo back in the mid 90s (yes, storing all that information in volatile memory was a fantastic idea, really). I remember going there when we briefly lived in Richmond. To a 10 year old that was the coolest looking place, but I couldn't remember the name and I kept thinking it was a proto-Best Buy or something. Now I know why I kept thinking Best Buy.
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The ones I've seen have teeth marks in them from being a perfect puppy chew toy. You kinda hope that Panasonic would bring back stuff like this as an ipod speaker or something.
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The Ape of Naples posted:There was a place like this called Consumers, too. I think it was more basic though just an area with a bunch of catalogues and I think a jewelry displace case. You'd fill out some card with what you wanted and, like Service Merchandise, it'd come out on a conveyor belt and they'd ring you up. I guess maybe it was cheaper because it had less overhead. The UK still has this with Argos.
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So growing up, there was a local grocery chain named "Consumers Warehouse"; the gimmick was each shopping cart had a bin of labels and markers on the handlebar. As you put items in the buggy, you would take a label and mark the price from the shelf, then affix the label to the item. Cashier would then ring items up off of the labels. The world was a different place then.
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Goober Peas posted:So growing up, there was a local grocery chain named "Consumers Warehouse"; the gimmick was each shopping cart had a bin of labels and markers on the handlebar. As you put items in the buggy, you would take a label and mark the price from the shelf, then affix the label to the item. Cashier would then ring items up off of the labels. The world was a different place then. "Then" being the day that it took for "consumers" to rob the "warehouse" blind?
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Goober Peas posted:So growing up, there was a local grocery chain named "Consumers Warehouse"; the gimmick was each shopping cart had a bin of labels and markers on the handlebar. As you put items in the buggy, you would take a label and mark the price from the shelf, then affix the label to the item. Cashier would then ring items up off of the labels. The world was a different place then. At the start of your post I thought you were going to refer to the much more modern practice of grocery stores putting either recepies or even computers on the handlebars of the cart, so you could pick certain things you wanted and then it would route you to those things. I don't think anybody ever cared and it never seemed to take off.
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WebDog posted:
My stupid brain skipped to "lamprey", which I won't post here because gently caress that nightmare creature.
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xlevus posted:The UK still has this with Argos. It never fails that there will be a queue 15 deep at the till but not one person using the fast-pay card machine things. Pretty sure order numbers are decided via dartboard in there though. "order numbers 441, 442 and 670 please go to your collection point, gently caress the rest of you, 10 more minutes"
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NonzeroCircle posted:It never fails that there will be a queue 15 deep at the till but not one person using the fast-pay card machine things. Pretty sure order numbers are decided via dartboard in there though. "order numbers 441, 442 and 670 please go to your collection point, gently caress the rest of you, 10 more minutes" I bet you could use that display board as a better random number generator than any of that radioactive decay malarkey.
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Kind of surprised grocery stores don't yet have carts that scan the cargo so the persons items are tallied upon arrival at the checkout so they just pay after reviewing the tally. All the tech to do that exists, probably not worth the effort yet.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Kind of surprised grocery stores don't yet have carts that scan the cargo so the persons items are tallied upon arrival at the checkout so they just pay after reviewing the tally. All the tech to do that exists, probably not worth the effort yet. It's in some Stop and Shops in the NE. My store never got it, but they put in scanners so you can do it with your cellphone, rather than one of their handheld devices. I'm just waiting for the iOS app to add my store to the list, so I can actually try it! 
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Kind of surprised grocery stores don't yet have carts that scan the cargo so the persons items are tallied upon arrival at the checkout so they just pay after reviewing the tally. All the tech to do that exists, probably not worth the effort yet. Because it'd make it really easy to shoplift? I guess you could have the cashiers just check everything but depending upon how much stuff you had it'd take just as long.
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You still need a place or a bagger to put all of your stuff in bags. Or bag dispensers spread around the store so you can bag your stuff as you go and then get charged as you pass a sensor while leaving the store. It sounds like one of those 'solutions to a problem that doesn't really exist' things. Sure sometimes you get behind the old lady that still uses checks and takes ten minutes to fill one out, but is waiting two minutes while a checker scans all your items and bags them really a major inconvenience in your life? Plus, aren't a lot of the grocery stores jobs union based? I'd imagine there is a decent amount of union resistance against making their jobs obsolete. A couple of the larger chains around here have been putting in self checkout kiosks, which are cool if you're only buying two things, but you can't buy alcohol or any products containing alcohol through them. Last month I had a nasty head cold, went to Von's to buy some NyQuil and tried to use the self checkout since I only had one item. Nope. Still had to go through the main checkout because apparently underage kids buy cold medicine to get high or something?
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HairyManling posted:You still need a place or a bagger to put all of your stuff in bags. Or bag dispensers spread around the store so you can bag your stuff as you go and then get charged as you pass a sensor while leaving the store. It sounds like one of those 'solutions to a problem that doesn't really exist' things. Sure sometimes you get behind the old lady that still uses checks and takes ten minutes to fill one out, but is waiting two minutes while a checker scans all your items and bags them really a major inconvenience in your life? Haven't you ever heard of robotripping? That's probably pretty obsolete now with all the online chemical suppliers and crazy bath salts and poo poo. I was cleaning out my recording studio and found a bunch of MIDI cables and a few coax for timeclock stuff. Nearly everything uses USB now, the only reason I have a USB MIDI interface is the original AxeFX ultra. I'm not sad to see it go, the pins would bend thanks to idiots yanking stuff in and out and it added an extra layer of nonsense when trying to deal with the CC stuff. The timeclock crap is even more obsolete - the only reason I even used it was a digital mixer with automation that I wanted to sync with Cubase/Ableton, and the 8 channel ADAT interfaces I used along with it to get 32 live inputs would get weird clock issues. I can't even recall if the mixer itself could sync properly without being a master - just remember lots of headaches and eventually wanting to get a master timeclock... Pretty goddamn glad I didn't E: going over the setup in my head, I had the 32 channel digital mixer with 16 inputs, two 8 input ADAT interfaces, a RME HDSP 96/52 PCI card to get the 32 channels of ADAT into my PC, and both an RME fireface 800 and an Apogee Ensemble for portable recording and different preamps. The amount of clock sources and conflicts was staggering, just getting two pieces of gear to work together was an arduous task. The Gasmask has a new favorite as of 02:50 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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HairyManling posted:A couple of the larger chains around here have been putting in self checkout kiosks, which are cool if you're only buying two things, but you can't buy alcohol or any products containing alcohol through them. Last month I had a nasty head cold, went to Von's to buy some NyQuil and tried to use the self checkout since I only had one item. Nope. Still had to go through the main checkout because apparently underage kids buy cold medicine to get high or something? Sadly not just underage kids. But its a really stupid drug because if you buy the wrong cold medicine you can kill yourself real easy (certain other chemicals are toxic in high doses required to trip) and its dissociative so its not even enjoyable.
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The Gasmask posted:Haven't you ever heard of robotripping? That's probably pretty obsolete now with all the online chemical suppliers and crazy bath salts and poo poo. And no, I don't think I've ever heard of robotripping. I am an old. When I was a kid we just drank beer and smoked weed. 
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HairyManling posted:A couple of the larger chains around here have been putting in self checkout kiosks, which are cool if you're only buying two things, but you can't buy alcohol or any products containing alcohol through them. Last month I had a nasty head cold, went to Von's to buy some NyQuil and tried to use the self checkout since I only had one item. Nope. Still had to go through the main checkout because apparently underage kids buy cold medicine to get high or something? Where I'm from you can. You just need a staff member to come over, check your ID if you're young and approve it.
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HairyManling posted:And no, I don't think I've ever heard of robotripping. I am an old. When I was a kid we just drank beer and smoked weed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqUmMCb4r-U The 'tussin the 'tussin!
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The Gasmask posted:Haven't you ever heard of robotripping? That's probably pretty obsolete now with all the online chemical suppliers and crazy bath salts and poo poo. Oh god. You just made me remember struggling with SMPTE and MTC in the electronic music lab in college in the early 90s. That was when I still thought I was going to make a career being a composer. I may decide to become your nemesis because of that.
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CannonFodder posted:The Blackbird has two toggle switches. They are labeled "Are you ready to rock?" (flip to "Yeah") and "I SAID, ARE YOU READY TO ROCK??" (Flip to "HELL YEAH") The Stone Cold SR-71 - I just picture a toggle switch with Austin's angry, glaring face, waiting for someone to press to initiate. Then a loudspeaker blaring "BLACKBIRD 3:16 SAYS I'M TAKING YER rear end TO THE TROPOSPHERE" *panel opens up, 6 pack of cold beer drops into pilot's lap*
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I have a few of those "ultra-speed" CD-RW discs lying around, but I could never get them to burn correctly in any CD/DVD burner I had, so they've been collecting dust for the past few years. Now that I think about, burnable CDs are a largely obsolete technology in the face of USB flash drives and SD cards. I could probably put drat near all of the music CDs I've burned over the past 10 years on a single 128 GB flash drive. I want this on my nightstand.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Kind of surprised grocery stores don't yet have carts that scan the cargo so the persons items are tallied upon arrival at the checkout so they just pay after reviewing the tally. All the tech to do that exists, probably not worth the effort yet. In Sweden they have supermarkets where you can pick up a handheld scanner at the door. You scan your groceries as you go, then pay at the end. Seemed like a good system, although I didn't get a chance to try as I couldn't read the instructions. So I assume that's how it works.
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