Gadgets and Gizmos

[Driller]

I think these contraptions are just made to annoy us. I got an inexpensive mini cam, one of those slender things, last week and it's so annoying. I could barely the charging base to open and close, and now the battery is weird. Sigh -- I think maybe I should have stayed in the pioneer era.

 

[Lucy]

I hear you! I'm not a big fan of electronic devices. Whenever I have a choice and it makes sense, I go with a simple mechanical device, preferably with minimal moving parts!

 

[Driller]

I agree. Sometimes I think I'm just too old for all of this stuff, though I am intrigued by it. These days, though, I just want to be shown how to do it. I'm tired of reading instruction manuals.

 

[JDgreen]

I agree. Sometimes I think I'm just too old for all of this stuff, though I am intrigued by it. These days, though, I just want to be shown how to do it. I'm tired of reading instruction manuals.

Driller, I am very handy mechanically and have built my own desktop computers, so I think I'm pretty adept with electronic things too. The problem is, once I finally figure out how something works, it has been replaced by something "newer, inproved, more features, more buttons, etc" and I start all over again.

Here is a good laugh...on Black Friday I purchased a new Asus 23 inch widescreen LCD monitor...and wonder of wonders, it came with a 215 page PRINT owners manual...but it had the manual in, get this: THIRTY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES....YES...THIRTY!!!! Only seven pages aside from the front cover were in English, and only three pages pertained to the model of monitor I had. If that isn't stupid, you tell me what is !!! They could have put a flyer in the box with the info I needed, but...a small paperback book was enclosed, 99% useless to most purchasers. :laughing::laughing: