What gadget cant you be without

My bluetoth ear defenders, theyve got an fm radio and can bluetoth with a mobile or ipod, when a call comes through the music is muted and you pull down the microphone to talk , the microphone is noise compensated. the microphone arm fold up out the way normally.

Cost a small fortune but utterly brilliant.

 

A bottle opener.:thumb:

 

these days my i pod.

like the pose though-had you just got up?

 

"like the pose though-had you just got up?"


Yeah lol, the joys of early morning starts!!!

 

Hmmm ... more tricky than I thought it might be.

My camera would be one. Not all that long since we all used film. I wander round the garden once a week photographing anything that is in flower, or that I am working on (e.g. just planted out such-and-such, or a photograph of some chemical I have bought to kill so-and-so :eek, and store the pictures in folders with names in yyyy-mm-dd format using the date they were taken - so easy to look at, say, June last year, or the year before.

The most-est brilliant-est gadget in the house is a Sonos music thingie. Expensive, but it absolutely does-what-it-says-on-the-tin. I figured that with teenage kids I should adopt a tolerance policy of music-everywhere and music-all-the-time

And given that the kids had already transferred every CD we have ever owned onto a PC so they can put tracks on their iPods the Sonos uses that as a source and then plays it in any room [which has a Sonos box]. It works like an iPod - playlists, touch-wheel, all that sort of stuff. Other kids who come can plug their iPod into the back of the Sonos in one room and they can play their music in other rooms (works for anything else too - the sound track from the TV for example). The wireless controllers can control any sonos box - so I can turn down the noise coming from the kids room that they have now abandoned without having to go up there ...

Multiple rooms can be playing the same stuff, or all different. It streams internet radio, so if the local radio station you heard on holiday in Timbuktu is Your Thing you can have that on at home too!

Two types of box available - without amp - so you plug that into your HiFi or whatever - or including an amp - just add speakers!

It creates its own wireless network between the boxes, and even has a network connection if you want to plug your laptop etc. into any of the boxes.

Blinking brilliant.

 

Lor! Kristen, I will have to make sure my lot don`t read your post or thay will start bugging me for one.

Even I was sold until I read the word expensive! LOL

 

Those ear defenders sound great Pro - could do with them at my work too (Secondary school! :D) Never understood Bluetooth - even though i think I have it on my phone!

No idea how to work an i pod, though think it's top of my son's Bday/Christmas wants. They're on the same day!) Never even heard of a sonos music thing!!!

I'd probably go with my digital camera too - I don't really do hi-tec gadgetry. Would my computer count???

Not exactly a gadget, but the thing I'm finding especially useful at the moment is garden wire. I have a bit of a thng about it - know the kind I like/don't like - and have varying thicknesses and colour! My favorite one at the moment is...pink! Use it for all sorts of things - sometimes even in the garden! :D

 

"Even I was sold until I read the word expensive!"

So can I buy you "cheap" then Lollipop?

"the thing I'm finding especially useful at the moment is garden wire."

Ah, that reminds me of another expensive gadget - sorry Lollipop! - a Max Tapener - allows you to tie up plants one-handed, stretches some tape around the plant / cane and then staples-and-cuts it in one ker-chunk. If you are buying make sure you order plenty of stables and tape

I can do the weekly tie-up of my 100 Sweet Pea plants in 5 minutes or so. The thing I used to do with a ball of twine and my Swiss army penknife took days by comparison!

 

Kristen, LOL I do indeed look at price first, but the tapener-now how much would that save me in elastoplast-especially when taping my roses to trellises, and patching up my jeans having to get comfy so as not to lose balance? That could be one of those investment buy things. (mind you I could always stop drinking LOL-------nah don`t think so-a tapener is the answer).

 

Not sure how much weight the tapener's tape will hold. Its ideal for light things like sweet peas, but I wouldn't use tit to try to support my tomato plants or melons.

 

Dont think theres nowt i couldnt do without u know .........

 

It would have to be my laptop!

 

Gadget I can't do without......

The computer does not count then because I work in IT so I'm glued to it for long hours.
The moible too does not count because it is a necessary tool for work, and mine is a Nokie 6230i almost 8 years old and I refuse to change it because it works perfectly well and the battery life is over 3 weeks.

I have a nice new Canon EOS 400D which I bought myself for my birthday (Himself says he bought it!!)

I don't do iPods and such like. I like my peace and quiet and don't like to have things plugged into my ears so that I can listen to an endless cocopny of sound.

Actually, thinking about it, maybe the battery driven tin opener, since my bones ache and I find it hard to open the occassional tin and my alarm clock else I'd still be in bed now, and my hari straighteners....I could live without them but would much prefer to have them in my life.

If Himself was asked that, he'd say that the gadegts I can't do without are the hoover and the iron. I appear to be surgically attached to them.:D

In the main, I can't do without my walk round the garden and a talk to my plants and the universe. I can't do without Himself, my family and friends.

I most certainly don't have any attachement to any gadget of any kind. I don't know if that makes me old fashioned or odd or something but I'd be right in guessing that it most probably does.

I don't even have the new fangled flat screen TV, I'm waiting for my old one to die of old age first.

Hmmmmm, got me thinking, perhaps I'm just a skinflint.