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What gadget has freaked you out most ?

  • 08-09-2013 11:37PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭


    I spun the dial on the scales today. It went OFF the other end. I nearly puked down on top of it. Drove to my parents house to check with theirs & by the time I'd got there I'd apparently lost 2 stone. drove back to my house where my scales told me I was a reassuring 9 stone. ( which I havn't been since I was 9). Am now torn between remorse, wily satisfaction & despair. Have now f'd the scales in the bin -along with the Mr Kiplings & " leftover" chocolates.

    What gadget has most freaked you out & how?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    My mobile. Rarely use it except when I actually need to contact someone and I can't use Facebook. I usually get a little fright when it rings or if I get a text because it doesn't happen that often.

    Recently got a part-time teaching job and the school calls me regularly to inform me of class cancellations/time changes/new courses etc. I've been freaked out for most of August.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    What gadget has most freaked you out & how?


    This-





    If anyone needs me, I'll be off right back after I change my underwear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    I might be behind the times, but the internet blows my mind


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The strap on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,238 ✭✭✭mutley18


    The fleshlight.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    The Daleks.

    Shower of exterminating bast*rds!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    CLEARLY the internet.

    The things I've seen... *drains glass of scotch*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The Daleks.

    Shower of exterminating bast*rds!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,840 ✭✭✭dmc17


    The theremin



    and the glass harp



    :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    HAL 9000


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 905 ✭✭✭StompToWork


    The Tamagotchi I had that tried to eat me. Effin thing was vicious.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    That robot that does the rubex cubes. Jesus it's terrifying.

    There's also a dancing robot. Three, or Meteor or some one of the phone shops had it as a promotion outside on Grafton Street a few years ago. Freaky.

    I have issues with robots.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    somefeen wrote: »
    I might be behind the times, but the internet blows my mind


    The internet blows my load


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    when I was a kid I used to go walk the dogs with my dad around the local industrial estate, the place was full of huge factories, always whirring and humming and the back end of each had those great big loading bay doors that as a kid you could only imagine what the hugeness of something was behind them. So I asked my dad what was in there making all the noises..and he said machines, GIANT ROBOTS. For years after that all machines freaked me out, all I could thing of was all the giant robots behind all those giant doors ready to take over the world at a moments notice. A bit like transformers if you will.


    (edit: miss Lockhart got there before me)


    for all the robot lovers out there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Mobile phones. It just seems bizarre the way everyone, including children, thinks they need a phone. When I was in school I didn't know a single child that had the slightest interest in talking on the phone. It then seemed that at some point in the nineties every child suddenly decided they couldn't live without a mobile and parents decided that it was a great idea to give in to the expensive whims of their children.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    My mobile freaks out my girlfriend. I have 2 mobiles with twin sims, so when you call my number both phones ring. My second phone is usually sitting somewhere around the couch, so when she sits down to call me it freaks her out when my phone suddenly rings!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    This-





    If anyone needs me, I'll be off right back after I change my underwear.


    Omg WHAT in the name of God is that -' what's it doing in what looks like a residential back garden :0

    What's it for ??? Cat catcher? Human frying pan?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Omg WHAT in the name of God is that -' what's it doing in what looks like a residential back garden :0

    What's it for ??? Cat catcher? Human frying pan?

    Have you never played Command and Conquer Red Alert?

    It's for frying invading allied forces, obviously! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    pharmaton wrote: »


    for all the robot lovers out there

    That thing scares the bejaysus out of me!

    I have to say, the hydrogen bomb is slightly worrisome also. I hope none of my enemies have one of those, all I have is a stick!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    The dinner reheater box in the corner of the kitchen is scary. Beep beep beep, it tells me when my dinner has been heated up to temperatures in excess of the fires of Mordor by small waves called "Micros". The devils work if you ask me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 733 ✭✭✭jrmb


    My first smartphone when I realised it was automatically uploading my photos to a certain social network unknown to me. They weren't actually published until you went online and approved them but it freaked me out. I don't know why people aren't outraged about it. When I take a snap of my work rota or some slides, the last thing I want is to see them when I sign into my social networking account.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    jrmb wrote: »
    My first smartphone when I realised it was automatically uploading my photos to a certain social network unknown to me. They weren't actually published until you went online and approved them but it freaked me out. I don't know why people aren't outraged about it. When I take a snap of my work rota or some slides, the last thing I want is to see them when I sign into my social networking account.


    I know someone who discovered that after taking a photo of her lady bits - que 10 frantic minutes trying to figure out who exactly had seen said publicity shy bits!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 Paddy Dangerfield


    The Philips BodyGroom electric razor.

    Here is a gadget with 80 vibrating razor sharp teeth barely concealed behind a thin metal foil. Imagine the trepidation and fear rushing through your mind as you look at this potential weapon of violence; the sinister hum, the slight vibration, the sight of those razor sharp blades moving back and forth almost faster than the eye can see. You then take this piece of Dutch designed engineering, place the head delicately near your ballsac and get to work manscaping. Only 2mm away from potentially horrific injuries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭madness98


    3D Printers. These things are the future, at least they are until the governments of the world can put legislation in place to tax them and ensure only a few can own them.

    I wonder how far into the future it'll be when we can manipulate atoms as we see fit, so that instead of resin, your 3d printer simply uses the air around it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Sat-nav woman. Not because she sent me the wrong way, (which she did occasionally). What freaked me was that sexy female voice which suggested to me in the calmest tone that I had possibly gone wrong and really should turn back.
    I had so used to a screaming female voice telling me what a stupid know-it-all ffn idiot I was. That sat-nav woman never told screamed at me to look out for that cyclist, never mentioned anything about withdrawing sexual favours if I didn't stop driving like an idiot.
    Yes that sat-nav woman freaked me out......but in a good way.





    I think I'm in lurve.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    I know someone who discovered that after taking a photo of her lady bits - que 10 frantic minutes trying to figure out who exactly had seen said publicity shy bits!

    Exactly how many people would recognise her just by looking at the said 'lady bits'.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Exactly how many people would recognise her just by looking at the said 'lady bits'.:D

    Well, having her name on the page the "said lady bits" were posted on would narrow it down a fair bit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    Well, having her name on the page the "said lady bits" were posted on would narrow it down a fair bit.
    True:o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Kilgore__Trout


    Any flashlight with a warranty of greater than 4 years. It's not natural.


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