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- 7/25/05 2:51 PM
How would your dream gadget improve your life?
by Marc Bennett - 7/25/05 2:51 PM
How would your dream gadget improve your life?
Bring family and friends closer together (tell us more)
Simplify my life (tell us more)
Save me money (tell us more)
Save me time (tell us more)
Make me really cool/make my friends jealous (tell us more)
Customize everything to my specifications (tell us more)
Other (tell us more)
Music and Photos, Portable universal player/storage
by Tara Diddle - 7/27/05 12:18 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
40GB + Device!
To store all my digital music/photos/home movies & use as digital camera/FM tuner/voice recorder
Must plug into:
Computer/Car sterio/Home sterio/TV/Monitor
w/ A/C and USB, or be wireless, plus have rechargable batteries.
I love music and I'm sick and tired of burning duplicate CDs for home/car/travel.
That would make me a happy camper, my brain just doesnt have the storage capacity it used to have to remember where I last left my CD's or if I burned them yet.
Is this too much to ask for and who knows they may already make this device.
Love to know.
Thanks!
Make my job easier
by ssggrkin - 7/27/05 12:18 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
I'm the recording secretary of a newly established Veterans Memorial district and something like this would eliminate the need for a tapeless recording device;which aren't the easiest to extract information and minutes from;and it would allow me to download what I scratch on paper into a text format for me to follow up with later. I don't take shorthand and only I can follow my stream of scratch and squiggles on paper, it's something I learned in the Army, not code per se, but my own type of code.
My Dream Gadget
by lindsay54 - 7/27/05 12:55 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
As a Sci-Fi obsessed boy then teenager I used to dream about talking to my friends and family on a videophone, I wouldn’t have to go to school, I wouldn’t have to go to the store and no-one would need to travel to work.
Well it took over 30 years but suddenly email evolved into video mail, I can send videos to all my friends, family and business contacts, I can broadcast live to as many people as I want and I leave the house when I want to, not when I have to.
My dream gadget? Its sitting on my desk.
My dream gadget?
by Starman35 - 7/27/05 5:25 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
A robot sophisticated enough to do routine houshold chores & yardwork, feed & water the pets, etc. Unfortunately, this would require one of Asimov's fantasy robots from his i Robot series, so I don't think I'll live long enough to see it.
Simplify My Life!!!
by DDF - 7/27/05 6:46 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
If life in general were more simplified then we would have more time for family and friends! All this new technology that is supposed to make our lives easier just makes it faster and more complicated - always trying to stay up to date with it all!!! And then of course there is trying to keep our computers running smoothly - thank goodness for CNET to help us and simplify things for us - somewhat!
Deborah
Dream gadget
by Nefratiri - 7/27/05 7:30 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
My dream gadget would allow me access phone, computer programs, games, photos and music. It would be light weight and have a screen that eyes over 20 can easily read! It would also be affordable to people who make less than $30,000.00 annually.
Right On!
by bechandra - 7/27/05 2:52 PM In reply to: Dream gadget by NefratiriI sooooo agree! One gadget to allow us to do it all --email, vm, photos, t.v., internet, calculator, business cards, documents, calendar, notes, phone (video), book reader. Some Palms come pretty close, but it's still not all in one package. And yes, with a display someone over 40 can read!
Not so much a Gadget as a program
by aussiejock - 7/28/05 9:25 PM In reply to: Dream gadget by NefratiriAnd the Program is called *SKYPE* it is FREE and easy to setup for anyone, it is the Best P2P in years, everyone should have the program it is very clear whether you are next door or the other side of the World. http://www.skype.com ios when you download it from and if you go to http://www.spontania.com there is a video camera program to go with it, it opens when a Friend calls you. Skype and Spontania go togeather. Enjoy something for FREE.
sharing photos
by Steven Fernandez - 7/27/05 7:34 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
Intergrate bluetooth technology into digital cameras to share photos immediately with family and friends.
In fact integrate the technology into any large screen to show photos.
Instant access to Long Distance Family
by hpurkett - 7/27/05 7:38 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
I have family in many places across the country. It would be nice to have a quality videophone to be able to see family in far away places and they see me at the same time. ALA Dick Tracy !!!!
Video Access
by lindsay54 - 7/28/05 5:56 AM In reply to: Instant access to Long Distance Family by hpurkettHave you looked at Hello World's video mail, we have family and friends all over the world who we don't see often enough and we use this all the time, not quite Dick Tracy but getting close.
Cell Phone with MP3, flash drive, Outlook
by jeffkordik - 7/27/05 8:37 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
I'd love to have a small cell phone with a pop out USB connector (not a cable) that could connect to Outlook for downloading addresses and calender plus be able to store and play MP3s and store other files for transfering to and from the office.
Save me Money and Time with Convergence
by trossen - 7/27/05 11:00 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
I teach Technology Education in the Middle Schools.
I wish the convergence of technology in America would catch up and surpass the rest of the world. We are not even in the top 10 countries using convergence technology to enhance education. We need students to have access to PCs at the pre-school level.
In he future, would not it be great if we all had a hand held communicator computer the size of existing cell phones? Something more powerful than existing PDAs. I want the access to the www to be free, just like the free radio and TV we receive. Right now it costs WAY too much just for using cell phones to talk, and even more additional hard earned dollars to access the www for data from the cell phone/PDA.
Each student in the future will be able to do research right from their own Cell Phone/ PDA and then wirelessly display that data to the class upon teacher approval. Teachers could send assignments that are differentiated to each student privately. Teachers can markup the paperless student assignments and get parental input also. I see in the future that students will not be limited to the library at school.
That’s the type of gadget I want!
Full personal communicator w/long battery life
by GoldHorde - 7/27/05 11:29 AM In reply to: How would your dream gadget improve your life? by Marc Bennett
Full personal communicator, possibly of interchangeable modular inserts (PDA, Camera, Phone, Email, Pager, Text, Web and 4Gig MP3) WITH an operational battery life of 8-12 hours full use.
Thankyou, I'll go quietly now and just keep dreaming...
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