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    My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious

    A Quick Look at the Creative Zii Trinity Pumping Out Wall-E In Smooth HD

    Creative's Android-Wielding Zii Trinity Captured on Video

    Zii Lives: First Look at the 1080p Android-Powered Trinity Phone

    Creative's Third Gen Vado HD Pocket Camcorder Has Improved Features, But Lower Storage Capacity

    Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook and PMP Features

    The Portable Media Player Is Dead, Long Live the... Portable Media Player

    Creative Zen X-Fi 2 Trades Buttons for a Touchscreen, High Price for Low

    Creative Vado HD Pocketcam V2 Features Direct Transfer to iMovie, Slightly Better OS X Support

    Creative Teases Luminous WoW Headset
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    Image of joetato joetato
    12/19/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    The strange thing is that if you compared this list to one from ten years before it, you would have seen a LOT more innovation than the previous decade (the 90's). It may be we are starting a plateau along the lines of design or technical capability? Or perhaps it is now more of a price evolution for the competitive brands?
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    Image of Slinkytech Slinkytech
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    LMAO, funny thing is that in South America PS2 is still the console. Also, turns out the console was actually xbox.

    And WHAT THE FUCK happened to Sony's bullshit liar-liar pants on fire lie about their consoles being in a 10 year cycle. Fuck you, maybe if you count Brazil, which you fucking can't.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    #5... isn't that the TwitterPeek?
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    Image of logruszed logruszed
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    I had the Visor and a version of the Nomad, and of course I had a PS2.

    All great suggestions, but you forgot the GPS attachment for the Visor!
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    Image of ChaoZ ChaoZ
    12/18/09

    @logruszed: Got my Visor Neo just before heading off to University. Got the foldaway keyboard as well. Used it for two years to take notes, really turned heads back in 2001 when almost nobody had laptops (those who did lamented lugging them around and poor battery power.) I replaced it with a Palm Zire71 when I got tired of swapping out AAA batteries.
    Only got one cartridge for the Neo, and it was a Tiger Woods game, on clearance for like a buck at Staples. It should still be around here somewhere.
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    Image of deciBels deciBels
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    What's funny is my best friend had 4 of the above gadgets back then; the PS2, the Creative Nomad, the Nikon camera, and the Motorola text message pager thing. The last one was by far the coolest in my opinion back then. He would email me all the time with that thing. I could always tell that it was him because the email address was goofy as hell, 235923459809@_____.com. It was just a string of numbers. I forgot the carrier though.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    Ah, 2000... When all MP3 players were based on the same chip and did nothing but play MP3...
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    I never throw out magazines, so it's fun to do this same sort of thing every so often; look back what was "hot and exciting" ten years ago. Many times it's hilarious in retrospect.

    It's especially fun with video game rags. "Duke Nukem Forever, scheduled to come out next year, looks amazing!"
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    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    Wow, my memory of the year 2000 is a little distorted - I actually thought tech was just a tad farther along by then. What year was it that I bought that Casio Cassiopeia PDA that I thought was so flippin' awesome at the time?
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    Good PS2 launch titles were few and far between. That's why the good money was to wait until the Summer of 2001 for the Gran Turismo 3 bundle @ $329

    Also from 2001 (I think): Forget that clunky hard drive jukebox. The better bet was the RioVolt SP100. Play your existing fragile CD's and burn your own 700MB CD's that were even more fragile. Listen to your 96/128Kbps MP3's (192Kbps if you're a rock star) wherever you go!
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: I had that CD player. It was awesome lol... sort of.
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    12/18/09

    @Rabid Penguin: I think this was the first piece of consumer electronics that I ever had to download firmware updates for. Oh, how far we've come.

    //time to update the toaster oven...
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: lol. And then I had convinced my parents to buy the newer black model with FM tuner for themselves. Good times.
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    Image of Mr. Damage, in Korea Mr. Damage, in Korea
    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: Dude, you weren't truly rockin' unless you packed the SP200 (rebadged iRiver product).

    Then one of my friends had to go get the uber-slim (for CD players, about as thick as a jewel case) SP300...
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    Image of Mpls_Mikey Mpls_Mikey
    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: LOL I had *both* the Rio Volt and the Creative Jukebox at one point or another... and I think I bought it on that new-fangled "website" that lets you buy anything from anyone... eBay.

    Sure it sounds funny now, but it was cutting edge back then.
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: Dude, I fucking LOVED my rio volt. I wired it up to my car and everything. Do you remember the dancing guy at the bottom? Oh memories!
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    Image of RocketScientist needs a new tagline RocketScientist needs a new tagline
    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: I got the all new RioVolt SP250 in black for Christmas 2001.

    Still have it in my desk drawer, still works too.
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    12/18/09

    @RocketScientist needs a new tagline: Still have mine too. I'm sure it works, but when your telephone has 32GB of storage, there's not much incentive to check.
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    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: yeah, that is almost the one I was talking about in my post below. (I think that is like the second or third version of the RIO, IIRC I had the first, it was all black with grey buttons).

    Ahh, I found it, pictured above...
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    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: yeah I think I had upgraded bios on a few computers by that time, but I was really excited about doing it on this player, it was an odd process, burning the firmware onto a cd-rw and all. Went off without a hitch on the first try IIRC...

    Fun stuff!

    Now I'm flashing new firmware/os-es onto my phone monthly...
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    12/18/09

    @Rabid Penguin: oh, yup you're right, my comment above was wrong about the release order of the different rio versions. Funny thing is, I almost NEVER used the FM functionality...
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    Image of mikeb12345 mikeb12345
    12/18/09

    @Chimaera: I loved my old Rio Volt. I remember waiting and waiting for the thing to be released.
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    Image of Avocadobride Avocadobride
    12/19/09

    @Chimaera: @Rabid Penguin: @Mr. Damage, in: MrBlahBlah: Mpls_Mikey: and the rest,

    You are all old.....
    (I'm 16)
    =D
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    I actually had the cell cartridge with my Visor, I kinda miss it now. I can't complain too much though, my G1 is handling the tasks my Visor (and before that my Newton) used to deal with.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    What, no latest Minidisc technology?

    I'm sorry, I can't even keep a straight face while typing that.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    LOL I owned that Nomad. I thought it was crazy to have 6 gigs at the time.
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    12/18/09

    @Segador: I hope for the price it also functioned as a label maker.

    Because it seriously looks like a label maker.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    I owned that Nikon and it was pretty sweet for the time.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    well, you got the ps2 right.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/18/09

    In reply to My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
    I've a question for any Giz readers and writers with the guts to answer.

    How much money have you spent on gadgets that became obsolete before you could fully utilize them?

    I'm not talking about buying computers that were quickly outdated in terms of speed or RAM. I'm more referring to something like buying a ZIP drive right before they dissapeared.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/18/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: I still have an Apple/Bandai Pippin.... so quite a bit.
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