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ITT weird tech you have seen
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Remember those "worm" LED lights that one could plug into that original GBA model with no backlight? Also GameBoy Camera?
RadicalCentrist
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Zip drives.
Fuck the haters I loved these things. It's also how I shuffle data from my old PC's (Pentium 1 tier) to later ones.
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I've always wanted to try a keyboard like that
I had several, they were designed to be bendable but would short out if you bent them more than a couple of times
what pieces of shit they were
oh also i had a radio you could plug into the game link port of a GBC, it actually worked and was powered from there but ofc sound fidelity wasn't great. kind of a neat idea but I never used it more than like once
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Imagine a cat walking all over that while you're typing.
They were a thing in the GBC days as well. Things ate through batteries.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those that left their GBC light coiled and those that straightened it out for extra adjustability.
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Can't stick your penis through the tiny little coil it comes with though
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I used Zip disks way back at university for transferring files to and from the school network but they never seemed to last very long, probably because most of the drives in the computer labs were fucked.
Going further back to high school, I used one of these for a couple of years (albeit the Mac/SCSI version):
SyQuest EZ 135 Drive - Wikipedia
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They're... not great. :/ It's a neat gimmick but kind of annoying to use after a while. I'll have to see if I still have mine, I got it from work for £2.00.
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I'm wondering how they ever got more popular than the Japanese robotic cat ears that could be moved by your brainwaves/nervous system activity. I always thought these headphones were kitschy in terms of looks.
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A challenger appears, @UselessRubberKeyboard
The panels/computers in the Death Star was like that so it probably felt futuristic in 1978 or whenever the Odyssey 2/G7000 was released.
Rewritable phase-change discs from the 90's, it had the capacity of CD-ROM and was compatible with CD-ROM. I don't think Technology Connections have made a video about it.
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Wow. I thought rubber keyboards were impossible enough. I vaguely remember having a cheapo calculator with that flat, hidden key setup. It was 100% reliable if you wanted gibberish every time you used it. Seems whatever they useed to make pressure or touch register as a key press often didn't - or it'd register something else entirely.
Now imagine a whole keyboard like that? Oh god, I want one. Pure rage in 70s packaging.
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Yeah yeah, that's nice, but let me know when you're ready to upgrade to a professional Iomega product with up to 230MB of space.
Zip drives.
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One of these keyboards must be the secret behind those Koreans and their video games.
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The secret is adderall
Here is the Kor fx vest. It rumbles from the in game audio. I've tried one. You need to hook into the vest itself to get audio because for some fucking reason, windows will only play audio through one device at a time. I'd love to properly try it without shitty audio, but windows removes features for no reason.
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More weird cases. What do you think of them kiwis?
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Not nearly enough RGB, and the entire case should be tempered glass.
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I legit thought that was some kind of fucked up early VR helmet at first.