what "fad-tech" do you remember?

"fad-tech" would be technology that sounded cool at the time but was practically useless and inconvenient.

if you grew up in the eighties or nineties, you probably saw a ton of it ranging form carphones to walky talky sized cordless mobiles to the power glove!

I still think the goofiest one i ever saw was the video payphones out here that southwestern bell ahd going on in the early nineties. it was supposed to be so you could send video signal while you talk to people who had video phones.....

it's since been replaced with webcams and mics but it was just crazy cus they had them everywhere out here...even at camp grounds of all places.

anyways, what fad-tech do you recall?

I just remember all those Mattel sports handheld games where everything on the little screens were just lighted up red little lines and there was no skill to it....Just luck.

Oh...And the Sega Genesis 32 bit "dvd" drive thingy that did NOTHING to make a game better, but cost a shitload of money as a add-on to the console. Total fuckin' ripoff.

three words:

light up shoes

NGage

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Originally Posted by allah

dude, they're still cool.

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lol, agreed.

those lil pet things that always died :P

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Originally Posted by Nos

those lil pet things that always died :P

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Tamagatchi's are making a comeback yo!

omg i had one of those lol those were cutes! I think they made one that you could synch up with other pets too

the dustbuster

we had one throughout the 80s and used it like 6 times and the 7th time we used it it was dead and woudln't charge anymore

nicad batterys and dumb chargers that just kept pumping power into fully charged batteries was bad tech

and every cordless phone i had in the 80s you had to entend the antenna about a foot and it still sounded like static filled tin can

another one were boomboxes you know ghetto blasters
that and a osbourn portable computer and you looked like you were quazimodo

That thing for the Sega Genesis.....wtf was it called? Ya popped it in the top and it made gam....3DFX? Not even sure.

The Apple Newton
The Mini-Disc
The Laserdisc

Shit and the Zip Drive. It tried so hard to be the next amazing thing. I remember my dad bought one and like 40 disks. Then burnable cd's came out and he was sad.

remember the little diskettes computers used to take before usbs took over?
my sis' old computer used to take those things.

Macs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

Hehehe, I had a CueCat. ^^;

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Originally Posted by malcolm

remember the little diskettes computers used to take before usbs took over?
my sis' old computer used to take those things.

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Floppy disks? My friend got one with his new computer cos it was free, but its inside the casing so he cant use it without partially dismantling his computer.

What where those hats with the propellers called? I saw some guy wearing one bout a month ago

Ghettoblasters!

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Originally Posted by Dusk

Floppy disks? My friend got one with his new computer cos it was free, but its inside the casing so he cant use it without partially dismantling his computer.

What where those hats with the propellers called? I saw some guy wearing one bout a month ago

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they're called beanies. i knwo i know, tobagons are calle dbeanies too but those were originally called beanies. in fact there used to be a show called beanie and seesel and the character beanie sported one all the time

floppy dics were great....................it was the cassette drives that really sucked

remember when the vic 20 cost hundreds of bucks.......................so you could play zork..........good times