What gadget has freaked you out most ?

JustAThought · 08-09-2013 11:37PM #1

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?

OneArt · 08-09-2013 11:39PM

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.

Czarcasm · 08-09-2013 11:49PM

JustAThought wrote: »

What gadget has most freaked you out & how?

This-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

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

somefeen · 09-09-2013 12:07AM

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

Wacker The Attacker · 09-09-2013 12:13AM

The strap on

mutley18 · 09-09-2013 12:17AM

The fleshlight.

SimonTemplar · 09-09-2013 12:30AM

The Daleks.

Shower of exterminating bast*rds!

donvito99 · 09-09-2013 12:32AM

CLEARLY the internet.

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

Wacker The Attacker · 09-09-2013 12:33AM

SimonTemplar wrote: »

The Daleks.

Shower of exterminating bast*rds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLcns2KHDTE

dmc17 · 09-09-2013 12:38AM

The theremin

and the glass harp

rustedtrumpet · 09-09-2013 12:50AM

HAL 9000

StompToWork · 09-09-2013 12:52AM

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

Miss Lockhart · 09-09-2013 12:55AM

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.

Wacker The Attacker · 09-09-2013 01:03AM

somefeen wrote: »

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

The internet blows my load

pharmaton · 09-09-2013 01:04AM

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)

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

for all the robot lovers out there

Irish Guitarist · 09-09-2013 07:41AM

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.

jester77 · 09-09-2013 08:44AM

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!

JustAThought · 09-09-2013 08:45AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

This-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

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?

o1s1n · 09-09-2013 09:13AM

JustAThought wrote: »

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!

sbsquarepants · 09-09-2013 09:30AM

pharmaton wrote: »

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

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!

Plazaman · 09-09-2013 09:33AM

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.

Sinfonia · 09-09-2013 09:35AM

This sums it up for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03vLFWV_mpk

jrmb · 09-09-2013 09:36AM

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.

sbsquarepants · 09-09-2013 09:50AM

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!

Paddy Dangerfield · 09-09-2013 10:35AM

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.

madness98 · 09-09-2013 10:42AM

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.

Roger_007 · 09-09-2013 10:57AM

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.

Roger_007 · 09-09-2013 11:04AM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

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

Hoop66 · 09-09-2013 11:21AM

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.

Roger_007 · 09-09-2013 11:46AM

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

Kilgore__Trout · 09-09-2013 11:56AM

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

What gadget has freaked you out most ?

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