Dorkins Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Best one yet. We don't even have a microwave. I can't think of anything they'd be really useful for. Microwaved salmon is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 SINCLAIR C5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 You're kidding?! I'm wearing one of these as I type: Same here. Known as the 'bomber's watch'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkG Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 How many of these are there? The next big thing, the now, then it was mostly abandoned. I don't mean things like Jet Cars that were predicted but never actually happened. Chrysler built a bunch of jet cars, and they worked pretty well. They were killed by NOx emission laws... every time Chrysler fixed the design to meet the new laws, the US government went and passed new ones. Either the US government was so stupid that they wanted to be reliant on oil when they could have had engines that burned pretty much anything you could stuff into the fuel tank, or the oil companies didn't want to lose a large part of their market. Edit: oh, and not to forget minimal maintenance, and no oil changes. So no more six-monthly trips to car dealers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Remember that no matter however you have passed the time you have never past the time, not even in the distant past. Past can be an adjective, a noun, a preposition, or an adverb, but never a verb. If you need to write the past tense of the verb to pass, use passed. Ahhhhhhhhh. I didn't have the guts to mention it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Sony MiniDisc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkG Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Sony MiniDisc Killed by DRM, I think. If I remember correctly, you couldn't do a digital copy from your CD to a MiniDisc because Sony. Then CD-R and MP3 made it irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rave Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Killed by DRM, I think. If I remember correctly, you couldn't do a digital copy from your CD to a MiniDisc because Sony. Then CD-R and MP3 made it irrelevant. You most certainly could. You couldn't then make a further minidisc to minidisc copy, but that's fair enough IMO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Chrysler built a bunch of jet cars, and they worked pretty well. They were killed by NOx emission laws... every time Chrysler fixed the design to meet the new laws, the US government went and passed new ones. Either the US government was so stupid that they wanted to be reliant on oil when they could have had engines that burned pretty much anything you could stuff into the fuel tank, or the oil companies didn't want to lose a large part of their market. Edit: oh, and not to forget minimal maintenance, and no oil changes. So no more six-monthly trips to car dealers. I meant Jetson type flying cars. But on your point I was unaware until a James May car programme this year when he drove one of these Jet cars owned by Jay Leno. They said it could run on many fuels including perfume so you could send out sweet-smelling exhaust fumes. It seemed like a totally normal car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Same here. Known as the 'bomber's watch'. I had no idea that people still wore these. I get the retro chic thing but I much prefer the traditional watch face. If I was to buy a retro one I'd like one of my old "Boy's Timex" types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 You're kidding?! I'm wearing one of these as I type: You are officially 'trendy'. You should be ashamed of yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 You are officially 'trendy'. You should be ashamed of yourself. I had one of those Casios for years. It broke when I took it off whilst working on a car. The car fell off the stands when I was going to change the suspension springs, and landed on the watch. I should have kept it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 I had one of those Casios for years. It broke when I took it off whilst working on a car. The car fell off the stands when I was going to change the suspension springs, and landed on the watch. I should have kept it on. But then you would have had a broken wrist at least. Lucky escape if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 But then you would have had a broken wrist at least. Lucky escape if you ask me. Look on the bright side! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justthisbloke Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 You are officially 'trendy'. You should be ashamed of yourself. My dad wears one as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Sony MiniDisc Sony were a touch unfortunate with the minidisc. It was a great format IMHO, it just happened to come along at the wrong time. The internet has pretty much made all physical media obsolete. Hydrogen fuel cells - whatever happened to the hydrogen economy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Anyone say 8-track... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track Had a great jungle book tape that fitted in the car 8 track....know all the words off by heart, heard it so many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkG Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Hydrogen fuel cells - whatever happened to the hydrogen economy? It's just waiting for someone to find a hydrogen mine to power it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scepticus Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Some stuff that didn't make it long term, but now looks like it might be coming back soon/re-invented/trendy again: Supersonic passenger jets Sodastream Virtual Reality (remember the 80s version?). Neural networks and AI were a big research areas in the 80's, dead for 2-3 decades, now back with a bang. Manned space exploration BBC Micro (now the microbit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Like the reinventions. Teasmaids go in cycles too. I have one and dig it out every so often for a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgul Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 It's just waiting for someone to find a hydrogen mine to power it. I've found me a hydrogen lake. Trouble is the hydrogen is bound up in its oxide - I'm still working on how to extract it efficiently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Bulbs: see resurrected thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Sliced bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Sony MiniDisc When it came out the sound quality was no better than good analog tape cassettes. Then recordable CDs came out, and portable CD players that buffered so they didn't skip when you went jogging with them. By the end IIRC the MiniDisc SQ was actually not far off or level with CD, but by then streaming and downloading had taken over. DJs liked MiniDiscs for recording sets, but once you could put a CD into a car stereo, there was no longer any need to take a copy from one format to the other (vinyl > tape). It was the wrong thing at the wrong time. Separately, they still don't seem to have got the jet-pack technology used by Bond in Thunderball quite right - it only works for a very short time and they're still incredibly dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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