Your First REAL gadget

Freddie59

As I'm an oul fart mine was a BASF Radio Cassette (with FM Stereo!:eek:) in 1972. I suppose the next two were the Sinclair Digital watch and Casio Calculator (first one for a fiver - around 15% of the average wage at the time) in 1977.

WindSock

Casio digital wristwatch, or one of those lcd games.

inforfun

This on the b/w tv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkUvfL8T1I

Freddie59

inforfun wrote: »

This on the b/w tv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkUvfL8T1I

Feck. I was after forgetting that! Bought one of those in 1977 as well! Obviously the first year I worked full-time!

Cherry_Cola

A talkboy

Mint Sauce

An Atari 2600.

I win.

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(gawd I'm getting old)

Saila

2 empty yogurt pots and string, aka phone

Taco Corp

Calculator watch. It was useless

Mint Sauce

Surley wrote: »

Calculator watch. It was useless

Had the one with the data bank, around '89, 3 of us in the class had one, thought we were the business.

Temptamperu

Commodore Vic 20.

Jesus Wept

Casio watch was the nuts. Also had a speedometer on my bike, no one else did. Thanks dad.

mojesius

The Bluebird a la carte kitchen - They just don't make kitchens like that anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqPkRzWPUlI

Edit: Dunno if it's a 'gadget', but I had my fun, and that's all that matters.

El Guapo!

Had a talkboy.
I got hours of fun out of it for the first day or two. Then I realised it was pointless.

I remember getting a casio digital watch that was also a remote control for the tv. Now THAT was a good gadget. I used to change the channel and make the volume go nuts on my Grandads tv and he hadn't a clue what was happening. He ended up taking apart his remote control because he thought it was broken. Then he put it back together and it never worked again and he had to buy a new one. I never told him it was me!

Jesus Wept

Had a speak n spell too. Pretty nifty.

abouttobebanned

not the first gadget, but i remember having one of these when I was a kid.

http://www.re-buy-cycle.co.uk/uploads/295/3.jpg

It was a computerised bike, that eh, never ever worked. When I say never worked, I mean I never actually saw the thing operational. So it was a big bulky bike that got looks from every other lad in school, was a bitch to get up a hill and I'm fairly sure the folks got it free with a washing machine.

Freddie59

The-Rigger wrote: »

Had a speak n spell too. Pretty nifty.

I remember buying one of those for our own kids. Fantastic device for the time.

Miguel_Sanchez

We had an Apple II computer in the house in the early 80's. I learned to spell on it.

Thought I was deadly when I won a Sony Discman in 1990 though. It was pretty damn snazzy.

maxfresh

Commodore 64

http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=commodore+64&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=895&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=7MLs0ZEhDyCfEM:&imgrefurl=http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/c64/index.htm&docid=mjZfci8wgFFrJM&imgurl=http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/c64/h/complete.jpg&w=1340&h=828&ei=t-q_Tr25OdGWhQezwPidBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=953&vpy=370&dur=1888&hovh=176&hovw=286&tx=96&ty=90&sig=102637938855013471094&page=1&tbnh=125&tbnw=202&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0

Freddie59

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

We had an Apple II computer in the house in the early 80's. I learned to spell on it.

Thought I was deadly when I won a Sony Discman in 1990 though. It was pretty damn snazzy.

You must have been rich!!:D

df1985

sega megadrive.

John Doe1

a tamagotchi then a sega megadrive:D

Callipo

Does a dynamo for a bike count?

If not then a digital watch back in ye day.

First proper gadget though was probably a TV the size of an iPhone in the early 80's my old man brought me back from Tokyo. Picture but no sound though, in Ireland.

Alter-Ego

Got a PSX when I was about 9 for Christmas with Air Combat, Destruction Derby and F1 97.

W.Shakes-Beer

A Talkboy! All the rage after that Culkin bastárd had one...

Then I remember a PS1 with V-Rally being the first of my consoles.

Freddie59

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

A Talkboy! All the rage after that Culkin bastárd had one...

Then I remember a PS1 with V-Rally being the first of my consoles.

Ahhhh...the PS1. Good times - Crash Bandicoot!

Fbjm

My gameboy color, in 1999 when I was 7.

Gah, I miss being young

Mr. Curtains

Action Man watch in 1997, got it for my communion

It had a rape alarm on it

Freddie59

Mr. Curtains wrote: »

Action Man watch in 1997, got it for my communion

It had a rape alarm on it

WTF?????:eek:

W.Shakes-Beer

Anyone remember the "C-Watch"?

The watch that has this screen on it with a face that just shouts at you.

Frank Black

A DeLorian with a flux capacitor. This would have been back in the 80's.

It was deadly, I was able to travel through time. Had to get rid of it when I realised that I was running the risk of causing a temporal paradox.

earpiece

Freddie59 wrote: »

As I'm an oul fart mine was a BASF Radio Cassette (with FM Stereo!:eek:) in 1972. I suppose the next two were the Sinclair Digital watch and Casio Calculator (first one for a fiver - around 15% of the average wage at the time) in 1977.

Dude I'm with you... got a ferguson radio cassette in 1976, cost me £22.... I was a long time saving.

(had tone control too!!)

starbelgrade

I got a Swiss Army Knife (yes, it is a gadget!) for my 10th birthday.

Loved it - especially the saw on it, but my dad really regretted getting it for me after I hacked halfway through one of the legs on a kitchen chair & it broke when he sat down one day to have Sunday dinner.

neil_hosey

commodore 64 with games such as flimbos quest, shinobi, circus game, paper boy and some other brilliant game something like sonic, but with some boy with an axe...

ah memories..

Wetai

Dunno which came first, but I had a calculator watch and a calculator PENCIL CASE!

Kanoe

I had a watch with space invaders game on it when I was about 14. It got nicked in school = heartbroken.

ballsacky

A Sega Master System. Had Alex The Kidd built in if you didn't put in a game cartridge. Class.

Lorrs33

Thamogotchie, I think! If I even spelt that right...

The Scientician

Inspector.

Jesus Wept

Freddie59 wrote: »

WTF?????:eek:

Panic alarm thing. There was a little square red button in my dad's Honda Prelude that did the same thing. He'd let us push it occasionally and the cars ahead would pull into the side a bit as they thought it was an unmarked cop car. That was obviously the best thing ever, good times.

Freddie59

earpiece wrote: »

Dude I'm with you... got a ferguson radio cassette in 1976, cost me £22.... I was a long time saving.

(had tone control too!!)

Remember Chromedioxide cassettes?:)

Freddie59

The-Rigger wrote: »

Panic alarm thing. There was a little square red button in my dad's Honda Prelude that did the same thing. He'd let us push it occasionally and the cars ahead would pull into the side a bit as they thought it was an unmarked cop car. That was obviously the best thing ever, good times.

Brilliant! Good (and very innocent) times indeed.

hardCopy

black francis wrote: »

A DeLorian with a flux capacitor. This would have been back in the 80's.

It was deadly, I was able to travel through time. Had to get rid of it when I realised that I was running the risk of causing a temporal paradox.

Great Scott!

Hobbes

As a kid I had a Casio watch that played 30 different tunes. Not just bits but the whole song.

After that I got a Casio Data watch. You would type in your stuff on your BBC computer and then just hold your watch up to the screen. It would upload the data from the flashes off the screen.

tallus

Sinclair ZX80..

tallus

neil_hosey wrote: »

commodore 64 with games such as flimbos quest, shinobi, circus game, paper boy and some other brilliant game something like sonic, but with some boy with an axe...

ah memories..

Had one of those too, played Kick Off, and camel attack. Great little pc..

Azureus

Tamagotchi was my first gadgety thing I think. Ahhh the days of making my mam babysit my cyber pets...dont think I ever actually played with em for more than ten mins!

some random drunk

AAAAGHH!

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/Tomy-Aaaaghh.jpg

cruiser178

A calculator that doubled up as a pac man game, a very cool gadget at the time, oh and a walkman (cassette of course) I remember walking around listing to Bonnie Tyler and playing pac man, I was such a cool kid :cool: dont know what happened as I got older the year was 1983.

beer enigma

tallus wrote: »

Sinclair ZX80..

Aww just beat me there - I had the ZX81 & it still works !

Also had a Stylophone in 1973 which again still works.....

Snakeblood

I had a calculator which I left on one of those little hot air fans as soon as I got it. Melted the fan to the calculator, the calculator to the fan. Total time in possession of non hideous monstrosity Calculator: 1 hour.

blaze1

Spectrum 48k...

It bit the dust when i swtiched it off and forgot to unplug the joystick interface...

Walkman after that and my dad got me some cool speakers that used 4 batteries each and lasted about 10 minutes!!!