All time favourite technology gadget?
 

Mine is Enterprise 128 home computer in 1989. It has started it all for me. It was a tinkerer's device. With the Z80A/B CPU running at 4MHz, 128KB RAM, stereo sound and a support for CP/M OS, RS232 port as well as running Sinclair Spectrum Emulator (thousands of games that time) provided endless hours of fun.

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well mine was my G1 until I got this n900
N900 is mine

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I know this is Maemo.org and all, but my best toy so far that qualifies as "gadget" is the N900.

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Sega Dreamcast. Ran Linux, was easily hacked, had fast emus for Gameboy, SNES, Genesis... you know... all of the **** that seems to be the craze on the N900 some 10 years later. Oh... and it had Quake 3 Arena too.

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conrad-johnson MV-55 tube amp w/Sovtek EL-34 tubes.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...mv55_tubes.jpg

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Sony Vaio UX280 MicroPC

http://slavior.files.wordpress.com/2...sony-ux280.jpg

It had the WOW effect...+ Being a Full PC

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Toss up between the DEC PDP-8E, the Atari 400 (upgraded to 48K!) and the HP 8591 spectrum analyzer - the demodulator makes it one of the coolest radios ever.

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HP-35 calculator from 1972
HP-41CX calculator from 1979. The HP-41 was hackable at the instruction level.

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Would I get shot for saying 'Rabbit'?

(Actually, I don't mean it. My 'life changer' was probably the Treo600, my first converged device.)

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Dreamcast was indeed awesome, I remember having to hack up those free dial up ISP's just so I could play Phantasy Star Online.

Shame the American game market sucked and thats what lead to its premature failure. I still have mine and to keep it from going out of use I hacked up some dreamcast controllers and used them as an adapter for my modular arcade.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/Sa...s1024/Pad1.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/Sa.../s1024/C1C.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/Sa...ers%20Done.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/Sb.../s1024/dc2.jpg

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/Sb.../s1024/dc5.jpg

I just was not happy with NullDC emulation :D I had to play the original :P

As per back on topic, while the Dreamcast rates very high as my all time favorite tech gadget I think my #1 all time gadget would be...

Well its probably the arcade I built but that doesnt count since I created it. Prefabricated stuff I think my Wii is the best. It was revolutionary with its motion controls, I love hacking the little thing to do a bunch of cool stuff and I use the wiimote on my computer via bluetooth and even just got an adapter a few days ago that lets me use the Wii classic controllers via USB on my computer.

I have all my Wii games ripped to a 2.5" hard disk so I never even have to put a game in the system it just loads right off the HDD.

Cant wait for Tatsunoki vs Capcom to come out to the states :D I already have a Wii adapter for my arcade also so I can play Wii games on the joysticks

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/Sc...s1024/wii2.jpg

:D :D :D

Here is what all that stuff connects too

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/SZ...6SyfE/joy3.jpg

Its out of order right now since that was the top of my old desk and I built a new desk to hold my new monitors, but I plan to revive it soon.

here is the new computer setup, it takes 2nd place as my favorite tech stuff, working with 3 monitors really makes things faster/easier like right now I am encoding videos but also I love to play games across all 3 for surround gaming.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/Sx...912/Setup1.jpg

The N900 is great, but not doing all I want it too yet to rank in my Top 3 devices. I hope it can soon.