A 1TB micro SD card
Bunch of cute contrarians in here today.
I got a 4k TV from Paycor stadium for $10 per k.
Otamatone.
It’s a synthesizer shaped like a note with a mouth and eyes.
You can buy a drone for, like, $5. So a swarm of drones for $100 seems pretty futuristic.
where can I buy a drone for 5$?
As long as you don’t ask any questions… I got you. Meet me beside the dumpster at wendys. I prefer to be paid directly in drugs but cash app is fine to.
Poop knife, it’s the future I tell ya!
Get one in damascus for really deluxe poop cutting experience!
Sous vide
Is a cooking method from the 70s really… futuristic?
Not saying it isn’t worth it, though.
It’s rare (intended) for me to find someone who knows what sous vide is. So I suspect for the majority it would seem futuristic.
A screw driver. Cause everything seems so much screwed.
A COVID vaccine (offer not good inside the US)
OP said buy though.
A full working computer, more powerful than what we used to go to the moon, and using less power than a light bulb.
It can take many forms, like smartphones, SBCs or older PCs/laptops.
You can buy an ESP board that meets all those qualifications from AliExpress for less than $3CAD shipped.
Setting one of those up was the first time in a while I’ve been so impressed with just how cheap and accessible tech has gotten. It’s a web server with WiFi and Bluetooth shipped to my door all for the price of a chocolate bar.
or mini pcs
By that logic, a lighter. Better than smashing two rocks together, that’s how we used to make fire.
One of those fancy plasma lighters, sure. But butane lighters have been around for decades
lighters. fire on demand! for all of preindustrial human history these things would be worth more than gold
5 months of an OpenAI subscription
Lemmy don’t like LLM’s
Still this thing, 20 years on:
Kinda true, how this thing even worked, nobody knows
The tape head is basically a small and really sensitive electromagnet. Magnetized tape creates small disturbances in the magnetic signal. Amplify those disturbances and you get sound. Similar to an antenna, but only works in close proximity.
This also works in reverse. Feed an audio signal through the electromagnet, and the electromagnet will create the disturbances in whatever is next to it. You can do this to record to a tape, or you can do this to pass sound to another tape head, which is how these aux cassettes work.
You can build one yourself really easily. Just take the tape head from a broken player and solder to an aux cable. Take a cassette, remove the tape, and put the tape head in the middle portion so it comes into contact with the player tape head.
Of course it’s Technology Connections. Who else would make a video about a (now) useless piece of 80’s tech with enough content to satisfy any level of curiosity.
I think of it as extremely 00s. It’s the “I only have an mp3 player/phone and my computer doesn’t take aux” device
Amazon and Walmart have microwaves under $100
Raspberry Pis and other microcomputers can be had for pretty cheap, and they can be put to a surprising variety of tasks. You need to be a bit of a jack of all trades to fully embrace that DIY element, but I’d bet that showing off a project that you mostly built yourself would be seen as futuristic by most people.
The RPI400 is basically a full solution. You just need a display and a mouse, and you have a fully functional desktop computer. Not very powerful, but good enough for basic tasks like writing documents or browsing the web, coding etc.
Does web browsing count as a “basic” task these days?
I think it does so for nearly two decades
I think the deauther watch is pretty cool if we’re thinking cyberpunk-esque
I’m not sure what that’s for but it looks cool as hell
Deauther is generally used for kicking clients off WiFi networks.
You can setup a mirror network, kick clients off the real one, they’ll try to reconnect to yours, by which you can steal the WiFi credentials, or even listen in on the traffic.
Or just for testing, obviously.
