What is your latest technological purchase? I just bought a new hand held dvd player. I know,

[applegrove]

I know dvds are going the way of the dinosaur. I watch lots of movies and will get my money's worth in no time. Really cheap too. Much less expensive than the first one I had. Larger screen too.

[jberryhill]

1. A BIC lighter

[Wait Wut]

2. Home Theater.

The damned thing does everything but make dinner. I'm also about to buy the husband an iPod to make up for the Zune I bought him a couple of years ago.

[benld74]

3. Fidy inch samsung LED.

[bluedigger]

4. Do springs and shocks count?

I'm lifting the Jeep!

[Ikonoklast]

23. Remember to bend at the knees.

[HipChick]

5. 512GB memory stick..

picked it up in Hong Kong

[Tripper11]

6. Wow! Curious, how much was it?

I was in Hong Kong waaaaaay back in the early 80's and electronics back then there was literally dirt cheap.
I remember buying a stereo there for a little over $200, sony, double cassete, aut reverse etc etc(remember the erarly 80's?!?!)
Anyway, when I found the same stereo back home in Canada it was something like $600.

[HipChick]

8. I got a good price...but you have to bargain everything there..

[Posteritatis]

13. 512 *giga*byte? (nt)

[pink-o]

9. IPad.

That is all.

[HipChick]

10. Ver 2 or Ver 3?

[pink-o]

12. I got the 2. Didn't see much dif between them.

And also, as a techie junkie, I've found it's better to get the NEXT best thing. Usually, when they release the latest version, it takes awhile to work out the bugs. But if you buy the version just before it, the price has gone down and most of the problems have been solved.

I got the IPad 2 32 Gig WiFi only for $499 at Best Buy.

[Kali]

11. got my first laptop

last august

it's used (but new enough it had windows 7) to replace my desktop that quit allowing me to access the interned. It seems fine otherwise but somehow I have no "ports" or something incomprehensible to me. so here I am with a nice portable laptop still tethered to a dial-up modem.

[Broken_Hero]

14. A pizza slicer in the shape of the StarShip Enterprise....

I hear it can cut through any crust the Romulans can produce....

[Hayabusa]

15. An original Game Boy

by accident. Found it hidden in the packaging of Diddy Kong Racing in a video game lot that I bought at auction. The last on purpose tech purchase was the large TV and a digital camera that my family got for Christmas last year.

[GoCubsGo]

16. TV converter boxes.

The joys of being out of work long-term and fucking broke. Everything electronic I have is OLD, except for my iPod. I found out here that there was a recall on the first gen Nanos, of which I had a hand-me-down. I sent it in. They sent me back a 6th generation unit.

Oh, and a cell phone. I got one of those Net10 phones, as my car is also ancient. Don't want to get stuck somewhere.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. A nook...but it was a gift

from a very dear person, otherwise I probably would not have gotten one at all.

Now I wonder how I got along without it, having freed up a whole wall of bookspace.

With the free app Calibre, any book format can be converted into the epub format that Nook uses,
so I actually have been able to expand my e-book library, most of them for free. Have about 2,000 ebooks
in a file waiting to be loaded and read in Nook.

[NV Whino]

18. iPad 3

Although it was a gift rather than a purchase.

I love it: Internet surfing, games, books, e-mail and probably a hundred things I have yet to discover.

[dimbear]

19. A waffle maker. It is amazing. Used to take hours to carve those squares. n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

26. That's what sneakers were for! We called em "waffle stompers" in the Seventies.

Yeah, I'm old......

[Angleae]

20. Replacement video card for my computer.

The fan on the old one siezed.

[Iggo]

21. iPhone.

Gonna be a while 'fore my next.

[freshwest]

22. 1TB external hard drive to backup and eliminate all other forms of media.

Music CD's, video recordings, books, correspondence, instructions, documents, photographs, etc.

[Ikonoklast]

24. HP Officejet 6700 printer, copier, scanner, fax machine.

Old HP copier/scanner/printer finally gave up the ghost.

New one is fast as blazes.

I like it.

[Tom Ripley]

25. Korg Monotron (another one)

palm-sized analog synthesizer

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Numark turntable with USB port, you can digitize your vinyls.

I got bunches of em and so does hubby the electronics genius. You use your software to take out snap crackle and pop, and convert to a WAV file and burn CDs.

I LIKE CDs. I refuse to get an iPod. I like full 44.1K digital stereo instead of squashed MP3s.

So call me old fashioned.

I'm so old that I remember that if you were really hip musically you had a reel to reel tape recorder.

I had one in high school, and a component stereo that still works, with a Marantz receiver.