Tech Junky

Actually, I wouldn’t consider myself a tech junky (I simply can’t afford to), but I certainly have my shares of geeky gadgets. While renovating one of the rooms today, I discovered quite a few things that brought back memories and showed me how freaking fast technology advances.

Here’s the living room now – not as well organized as I planned for, but that’s not the point.

Sis threw on the beer bottle suit, which really belongs to Joey, and gave me a hand cleaning the place up, but that’s not the point, neither.

This isn’t what I found, but definitely caught my eyes. A wrist watch of former Chinese communist party leader, Deng Xiaoping, chilling with a smoke in his hand. This picture doesn’t do it justice – the hand’s actually flicking the cigarette by the second.

Ah, the white keyboards with bumpy and obtrusive buttons. Compaq doesn’t even use that logo anymore, making this at least 4 years old.

External CD rom.

Weighs like 5 lbs. This is probably more useful as a weapon than anything else. With softwares able to be downloaded online, musics can be purchased through the internet, and laptops now equipped with blue ray player, the fate of this bulky gadget’s not looking too good.

This, however, puts the rest of the lighters in shame:

It’s a lighter to say the least. A survival kit – It comes with a compass AND a LED light. I was actually surprised there wasn’t any swiss army knife.

I’ve also unearth a couple of cell phones:

This was the shit back in high school. When Apple was just about to rise as today’s market giant and I still trying to convince my mom to get me a phone, Motorla had their “Razors.” All the cool kids at my school had one of these. It came in many color ways – even hot pink.

The design’s slick, even with today’s standards.

This never went mainstream. My uncle from Taiwan was definitely a tech junky – he’s always spoiled me with the latest things. I had the chance of using a palm PDA, when PDA was still known as “personal digital assistant” and before Palm was known as a cell phone company, back in high school. This was one of the coolest MUSIC PLAYER ever.

It plays MD – Mini Disks. Stored up to hundreds of songs. Blew all the CD players, out of the water.

It was small and stylish looking, but I guess it wasn’t as slick as CD, or in this case, MD-free music players.

Last by not least: Intel Dolls.

They actually belong to my sister. The Intel cleanroom technicians (not space men) started out as promo toys to employees but soon became too popular. More than 500,000 were made, but apparently not much people have seen this. This is before Blueman were doing their commercials.