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(DIR) Post #AlWRMmOMj58GpNc0sC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T09:48:51Z
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If you could have one app magically tuned into a retrofuturistic device with excellent design which app would you pick?For example:* Fitness app would become a dedicated sports watch with VFD and buttons.* Audio book app becomes dedicated player with excellent indexing for books (unlike most stand alone MP3 players) & volume knob.* Mapping app, becomes delightful GPS device.You get to keep all features of the app as if the device was never software'd out of existence.
(DIR) Post #AlWRWCPHNCrk7KWzNQ by jannem@fosstodon.org
2024-08-31T09:50:31Z
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@futurebird Stardew Valley arcade cabinet? 😋
(DIR) Post #AlWRZt6l4F7PQCcvnk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T09:51:13Z
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Personally I'd go for the audiobook, ideally with an e-ink display that showed the text as it played, volume knob, headphone jack AND bluetooth...
(DIR) Post #AlWS1qnvE6McNv9NBI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T09:56:14Z
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@wakame I've been very curious about this device which seems to work along these lines. I have not tried it, but the pitch is speaking to my needs. https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7
(DIR) Post #AlWScYFv9TWdZYkMAi by pikesley@mastodon.me.uk
2024-08-31T10:02:53Z
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@futurebird @wakame my friend has one of these and it's a very lovely piece of engineering. It's also eye-wateringly expensive for what it is 🤷♀️
(DIR) Post #AlWStAyAyyvwH5NF9U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T10:05:54Z
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@pikesley @wakame If I used audio recordings more than just a few times a year I'd seriously consider getting it even with the price. I'm impressed with the whole design concept ... I pray that they never make something I'd actually need since it'd make me broke. (Kind of stunning what huge miss their recent AI project was given they can do stuff like this when they want to...)
(DIR) Post #AlWU3vovkMtYQik3Wa by pikesley@mastodon.me.uk
2024-08-31T10:19:03Z
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@futurebird @wakame The Pocket Operators are a lot of fun and way more reasonably priced https://teenage.engineering/store/po-33/https://teenage.engineering/store/po-12/I don't understand why this one has to be so ludicrously spendy
(DIR) Post #AlWUoI73CH4OtBK6mO by catselbow@fosstodon.org
2024-08-31T10:27:25Z
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@futurebird I'd replace the touchscreen on my car's dashboard with a set of knobs, buttons, and sliders that let me do the same things without making me take my eyes off the road. Turning on the A/C or changing the radio station while I'm driving is life-endangering.
(DIR) Post #AlWWn5F5lM0uaidWlM by MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee
2024-08-31T10:49:37Z
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@futurebird This describes a kindle. :)
(DIR) Post #AlWb6A66KstEy2mfDM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T11:37:53Z
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@MagentaRocks Kindles do the reading synch thing???
(DIR) Post #AlWbpiNRjOjgJccOJs by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-08-31T11:46:09Z
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@futurebird an app that turns my smartphone into a device used to make and receive phone calls from people I want to talk to. Or if it's a different device, a device that is used to make or receive calls from people I want to talk to.
(DIR) Post #AlWccMNOJokKGpmvxY by Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz
2024-08-31T11:54:53Z
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@futurebird audiobook player specifically for kids audiobooks, with a way to let the kid pick what book they want. Some things in this direction exist, but they are ludicrously expensive and somehow operate on a subscription model and don't work without an internet connection.
(DIR) Post #AlWcgjJWyjgKZL4B4C by holsta@helvede.net
2024-08-31T11:55:37Z
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@futurebird I want all the health / safety sensors of modern smart watches, but in a form suitable for a chest strap.I don't want a display and I want *weeks* of battery life as a minimum. I'll allow a vibration thing for alarm purposes.
(DIR) Post #AlWcwGO6IGXDUNbvO4 by thecrushedviolet@mstdn.games
2024-08-31T11:58:25Z
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@futurebird I don't know if this is too many apps at the same time, but I would like my audiobooks, meditation apps, and smart lighting to just be a decorative bedroom orb. Like my childhood mother goose lamp.
(DIR) Post #AlWd8HEywquHbq4f6e by chrisamaphone@hci.social
2024-08-31T12:00:38Z
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@futurebird @MagentaRocks “immersive reading mode” is Amazon’s brand of it — as much as i hate being brand-dependent, it utterly transformed my reading habits
(DIR) Post #AlWdApVQWPwSSaz1fs by MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee
2024-08-31T12:00:58Z
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@futurebird Yes!! It even highlights the words while being read. You have to purchase both the ebook and audiobook though.
(DIR) Post #AlWfnsYTJpy77R9hOy by Sasukecoochieha@www.librepunk.club
2024-08-31T12:30:34Z
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@futurebird my mood tracker!!! It could be a little set of buttons with different moods on top of a digital camera with an attached writing mechanism. Kind of like a leap pad from the 2000’s but with a small camera attachment
(DIR) Post #AlWj02CzYKueOdb1e4 by Wharrrrrrgarbl@an.errant.cloud
2024-08-31T13:06:26Z
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@futurebird I miss my game boy. The switch exists, of course, so this is more of a comment on the state of my daily routine.
(DIR) Post #AlX7XiDOnAnB8LNVVg by pikesley@mastodon.me.uk
2024-08-31T10:07:46Z
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@wakame @futurebird fourteen hundred quid for what is functionally a dictaphone is unhinged
(DIR) Post #AlX7XioGa6HaygcwyW by denebeim@mastodon.social
2024-08-31T17:38:02Z
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@pikesley @wakame @futurebird they're aimed at a very specific audience. Rich stupid people who don't want to learn things. It needs to be that expensive because that's their market. They wouldn't buy anything cheap. They're going to have to go to market really fast because these boomers are dying off
(DIR) Post #AlX7XjWDwfRdB1C3UW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T17:41:23Z
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@denebeim @pikesley @wakame I'm not a boomer and I think it's well-designed. The price is hight but it's a small company. I don't think this is a stupid product at all. They also make very affordable and highly mod-able synthesizer boards.
(DIR) Post #AlX7qEgqn0TL47zEnY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T17:44:45Z
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@denebeim @pikesley @wakame There aren't many small electronics companies. If this were Apple ... I'd not defend them. And I won't defend that AI thing they tried a few months back (which got more press than anything else they have done... and was bad)But, this is a rare small company doing original things. And they don't have any audiophile nonsense in their ad copy.
(DIR) Post #AlX7x0s2ZIyoESS6YC by pikesley@mastodon.me.uk
2024-08-31T17:44:51Z
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@denebeim @wakame @futurebird my friend, who owns one of these, is maybe 40, and he's certainly not stupid 🤷♀️
(DIR) Post #AlX7x1gNY9FIka0J0q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T17:45:56Z
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@pikesley @denebeim @wakame I just don't think they have the volume for more reasonable prices.
(DIR) Post #AlX8ODUdkJeDCPTjn6 by pikesley@mastodon.me.uk
2024-08-31T17:50:52Z
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@futurebird @denebeim @wakame maybe the ridiculously expensive gear is subsidising the Pocket Operators which are, and I cannot stress this enough, *enormous* fun
(DIR) Post #AlX8WgN0GaU74kwYHA by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-08-31T17:52:26Z
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@futurebird @denebeim @pikesley @wakame Yeah, this is not a stupid product. For the right people_, this looks like a _great_ fucking product... unfortunately at an unworkable price point.If you're a radio or newspaper reporter (and those still exist), this or something like it would be exactly what you need. Just, you know, for example. If you're the right kind of field researcher, same notation - I've been in the position of not being able to get the phone app open quickly enough to capture that particular noise I was hearing. That _instantness_ is critical.It's a very limited market, but ... yeah, there are people who need a thing like this.
(DIR) Post #AlX9GcdoSkA8pciBsW by denebeim@mastodon.social
2024-08-31T18:00:44Z
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@futurebird @pikesley @wakame All right. I'm talking about the dictaphone thing, not the sampler. They're trying to be like b and o. That was an audio company back in the day. Beautiful form. What it did. It did very well. It was also god-awful expensive. I didn't really look all that close at the advertising stuff, but it seems like it's got hardware in it to make it feel like a reel-to-reel tape. That kind of stuff is expensive, especially in low production quantities.
(DIR) Post #AlX9rrqOtvCOhJMLZI by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-08-31T18:04:52Z
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@denebeim @futurebird @pikesley @wakame B&O are still around, and still B&O actual, not a brand front for some other company.You can make good money targeting the high end is what I'm saying.But yeah: that's a scrub wheel, which means you can do a lot of things to a recording, and the big line thing on the side are a big physical rocker switch, and all that physical stuff when it's custom like that costs real money.
(DIR) Post #AlX9rsXIKRVgqLQbQW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-31T18:07:22Z
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@moira @denebeim @pikesley @wakame There are so few "high end" electronics companies that don't have all kinds of nonsense and lies in their advertising... or that don't make stuff that's just a knock off of whatever the big players are doing... That ... design things. IDK. I want them to make it. Just can't help them with this one unless they can bring it down to like $400. I just don't use audio enough to justify it.
(DIR) Post #AlXA3MUPIqG4vZYLmC by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-08-31T18:09:33Z
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@futurebird @denebeim @pikesley @wakame Oh yeah, this isn't a product that's made for me, either.But I've known people it was made for, and if you're a professional in the right field, it might be made for you.Also if you're a wanker who desperately wants to be a novelist and have lots of parental money, lol. But those people help keep arty companies like Teenage Engineering alive, so.
(DIR) Post #AlXBfGlb80NM8ZEXVw by kentbrew@xoxo.zone
2024-08-31T18:27:35Z
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@futurebird I will take one TV remote that will change channels as fast as the piezoelectric-crystal-powered ones I had as a kid, and won't drop into a sulky blue screen of death if I accidentally touch the wrong button while picking it up. Please.
(DIR) Post #AlXDdIYPiBPl0fFqO8 by MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee
2024-08-31T18:49:34Z
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@futurebird Hi. I deleted my other post. I just played with the different options. On the kindle app, if you have also purchased the audio book, you can read along while the audio plays and it highlights the words. If you have the kindle app on your computer it works the same.Kindle devices will play the audible file using bluetooth. You can not read and listen at the same time, but, you can sync your reading to the audio. This lets you switch bank and forth and keep your place. ✌️
(DIR) Post #AlXJ1yQOBmHZad5Qhc by aeisenberg@cosocial.ca
2024-08-31T19:50:08Z
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@futurebird a phone/tablet with an expandable display. I’m not talking about those folding phones. I want something that can fit in my pocket and I can also roll out to be large enough so I can read an A4 sized page (bonus points if it can go even larger!). It can also roll out to any size in between.Sometimes I need a small screen and sometimes I want to read something big. I only want one device.
(DIR) Post #AlXKdI4gC5tPCYI2oC by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2024-08-31T20:08:03Z
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@futurebird there is this new Casio watch that looks as if it was from 80s, but it has steps tracker and supports Bluetooth (for uploading steps data to the phone, for searching the phone, and for time and settings sync; but it's also perfectly capable of working on its own without never being linked to any phones), with replaceable watch battery good for two years of use
(DIR) Post #AlXYxHXJIsVogM6nU8 by valdelane@mas.to
2024-08-31T22:48:33Z
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@futurebird My dreams frequently include a rugged hand-held dedicated map/navigation device with lots of real buttons, and a similar hand-held communication device.
(DIR) Post #AlXZXRPM4uJ1ivd6Lw by apophis@brain.worm.pink
2024-08-31T21:25:28.200195Z
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@philip_cardella @futurebird i've actually thought about carrying a dumbphone just for making calls while my smartphone basically just acts as a combination electronic notepad/social media browser thingykinda nostalgic for when i had a blackberry, no data plan and a laptop and internet cafes where everywhere...
(DIR) Post #AlXZXSSw94lV0KJTZg by apophis@brain.worm.pink
2024-08-31T21:51:01.287232Z
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@philip_cardella @futurebird come to think of it i guess that's my other answer to OPbasically a thin, foldable(?) writing/drawing tablet with lots of pages that are either images or text (and image mode has an option to add text)with a little USB thing that connects to any computer and to the computer it just looks like a thumb drive with those images and text fileshave a handle or strap at the back so i can hold it without doing some unstable thing with my fingertips on the edgesdrawing layers optionalif it had brushes similar to the watercolor from paperdraw/papercolor that would be amazing but that might lead to complicating things too much because i want this thing to have absolutely no input lag whatsoever
(DIR) Post #AlXZXTWWDFDyHizqnQ by apophis@brain.worm.pink
2024-08-31T21:52:28.513302Z
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@futurebird @philip_cardella basically this but thin, plastic and digitized https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/05/keep-taking-the-wax-tablets.html...and now that i look at that maybe it could be dual screen so you could, say, have a text file open in one and an image in the other...
(DIR) Post #AlXhPdz2EpYw2h6zDc by mavu@mastodon.social
2024-09-01T00:23:20Z
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@futurebird @wakame if I stumble on a large amount of money I will buy every single thing that Teenage Engineering produce.I don't need any of it.I'll buy it just to look at and touch.I had not even seen this recorder yet and I love it.It's exquisite.
(DIR) Post #AlXup7YwhPzQQNO4lU by aeisenberg@cosocial.ca
2024-09-01T02:53:36Z
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@futurebird https://xkcd.com/2979/