Wishlist - The Funky Stuff You Wish You Could Have

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Wishlist - The Funky Stuff You Wish You Could Have

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Started 2 years ago by klutzgrrl
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klutzgrrl
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Isn't it frustrating how technology and industrial production never keeps up with real life? Fine if you have a bottomless money-bag to employ the guys to wire your whole home and custom build everything, meanwhile the rest of us get stuck in the dark ages.

I'm procrastinating over a coffee and toast while working up the energy to tackle my housekeeping, and found this kitchen that I HAVE TO HAVE. OMG! How beautiful is this?!

http://unclutterer.com/2008/02/28/modular-kitchen-design/

*swoon*

What's on your high-tech wishlist?

Posted 2 years ago #
Claycat
Member

That is really cool! I can understand why you like it.

I have a wish one. I will see if I can find it again.

Posted 2 years ago #
Zora
Member

I want a large, electronic remote-control feral cat trap. Not a kludged-up one made with a remote control car, a nice one I can just buy ready-made.

I also want the money to BUY such a trap.

Posted 2 years ago #
Claycat
Member

Darn it, I can't remember where I saw them, but they were beautiful European sculptural free standing fireplaces. Gorgeous!

Posted 2 years ago #
charmed2482
Member

I want something that works as a GPS, nice Digital Camera and an Ipod so I can have just one gadget instead of three. I don't want it to be a phone b/c the camera's on current phones suck, so if it was nice like the camera I have no maybe. Most phone require the use of some kind of internet/data plan to use the GPS feature and my actual GPS doesn't. I don't use a cell phone, so I don't really need it to be a cell phone anyway.

Posted 2 years ago #
Laetitia in Australia
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charmed2482 - the reason why most cameras in phones suck is because the makers are trying to do too much with too little.

The Quality Triangle says that you can have something of high quality and quickly so long as you are prepared to pay for it. If you aren't, you lose on the quality or the time it takes to do.

Similarly, the Technology Triangle would be: you can have feature X and feature Y in the same product at high quality for both if you are prepared to pay a premium for it. If not, you accept a lower quality of at least one of those features or you accept that they aren't in the same product or you wait until the technology for bundled products meets your minimum requirements (by which point the items dedicated to one purpose have outstripped them by a factor of 3 anyway).

This is why I don't care whether my phone has a camera - I have real, dedicated cameras to take decent photos. Technically, my cameras are unitaskers but they have a good reason to be. :-)

Posted 2 years ago #
klutzgrrl
Member

Interesting 'triangle' concepts.

I think sometimes unitasker items might be preferable to multi taskers - unitasker electronic devices often seem much faster to operate than multitaskers, because you usually just hit the on button and you have what you want, rather than navigating menus.

I find my multitasking printer/scanner much less convenient desk-space wise than the marginally larger separate scanner and printer that I had.

Posted 2 years ago #
charmed2482
Member

I like our all in one printer scanner, but I can see why having multiple uses in electronic devices isn't the best. I had a nice camera phone that took OK pictures for a camera phone, but I hardly ever used it because I have a nice compact digital camera. It also played music which I hardly ever did either because I have two Ipods that work better than the phone did. I don't even have the phone anymore b/c Verizon fried it trying to update the software and i wasn't willing to pay for another one or sign another contract for something I barely even used since we have a free internet phone at home.

Posted 2 years ago #
Sky
Member

Not high-tech but my funky item I want is an original blue Eames rocking chair. I don't know how to attach a picture or I would. My DH thinks it's ugly.

Posted 2 years ago #
Zora
Member

I want a small, all-electric car -- oh, and a house with a solar charging station, as well :)

Posted 2 years ago #
klutzgrrl
Member

That's definitely an unusual one, Sky. You'd need a really modernist environment for it to work.

I love the recliner chair with the ottoman. The chaise is beautiful too - I don't know how comfortable though!

(we can just google eames blue rocking chair to see it)

Posted 2 years ago #
Sky
Member

klutzgrrl....I was thinking one funky piece of furniture would really pop in my mostly traditional, mostly beige space. Also, it would drive my judgmental family crazy. (evil laugh!)

Posted 2 years ago #
Claycat
Member

Wow, Sky! I was going to say, "Go for it!" Then I saw the price!

Posted 2 years ago #
Sky
Member

Yeah, that's why it is it stays on my wish list!

Posted 2 years ago #
HappyDogs
Member

I want these. I won't get them, no no I won't!. But I really like them, they appeal to the scientist in me, I especially like C. perfringens.....

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/?icpg=Carousel_Giant_Microbes_1

They make me smile.

Posted 2 years ago #
Claycat
Member

They make me smile, too, HappyDogs, even though they represent horrible stuff.

Posted 2 years ago #
Aunt Cloud
Member

Love. LOVE thinkgeek.com. The clostridium is mucho cute. H would love some cubicle warfare artefacts, I'll settle for the beaker mug or the periodic table shower curtain.

A funky, expensive doodad I would like to have if I had the finances and the space? one of those massage/foot spa chairs I sat in when I had a pedicure. Bliss.

Posted 2 years ago #
PrairieGal
Member

@ HappyDogs - I have the syphillis, it's the pink worm. It's an inside joke with DH. Whenever we watch House, we try to guess the ailment, and usually we root for syphillis. Sometimes we're right.

PS - It's not clutter because it makes us laugh everyday.

Posted 2 years ago #
HappyDogs
Member

@prairigal No! Anaerobes are totally cool. ;)

Posted 2 years ago #
chacha1
Member

LOL that modular kitchen looks like the galley on Austin Powers' jet. A few years back I saw some AWESOME kitchen units, built in tansu style by an Asian furniture maker ... seem to recall they were in the $3K - $5K range ... sigh! Still want!

An expensive doodad I would like to have is a working, one-piece, small, stylish, radio tuner & CD player, that is not a Bose, that is not a glorified iPod dock, and that will connect to my music server aka computer #3 and will have its own display screen ...

y'all, I think I just "need" a good CD-ROM drive in that computer, don't I? But why do the computer cabinet & screen have to be so frakkin' huge?? Seriously! It does not need to be much bigger than a Discman. (Remember those? or am I old?)

Posted 2 years ago #

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