Grateful for Gadgets!
I certainly feel I have been blessed by the invention of these gadgets:
1. Cell phones - When I was in college I rarely spoke to my parents. My first semester my only access to a phone was a pay phone on the street corner near my apartment. Now my daughter is at college and she can contact me from where ever she is: riding in a car, at her apartment, walking between classes... a huge comfort for parents.
2. Personal Computers - When I was in high-school I took a typing class on an electric typewriter where you had to back up and use correction tape if you misspelled a word. Yes, I am grateful for personal computers!
3. iPods - Music has come a long way - from records and cassettes to CD's and now digital. It is amazing to have a huge library of music at my finger tips without having to lug around a big organizer.
4. Digital Cameras - I loved being in a dark room, watching images appear on paper; but, I can't say I miss developing rolls and rolls of film!
5. Debit cards - I love not having to carry a check book!
6. TiVo - BEST THING EVER to happen to people who watch television! TV used to "run our lives" now we can watch what we want, when we want to, and we can skip through the commercials!
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1. I agree with all of Tami's gadgets :)
2. The internet
3. Satellite radio
4. Remote controls
5. Cordless home phone - I don't have good cell phone service and have to have a land line too.
6. Power steering - some of you may not even remember when a car didn't have it - huge difference!
7. Dishwasher - as a child in a family of 8 I wanted to wash, but got stuck drying the dishes.
8. Non stick pans
9. Copier, scanner, printer at home...who'd a thought 20 years ago we'd all have one.
10. Ceiling fans - love it - have one in every room.
Posted by: Julie Miller-Oconnor | February 25, 2012 at 08:54 AM
My gadgets
1. Microwave oven
2. off course cell phones
3. Love these digital cameras
4, laptop computers, I set back in my recliner and surf away
5. Uploading pics to walgreens and picking them up when I get to town
6. couldn't be without dishwasher
7. convection oven
8. Computerized emboidery machines
9 And we cant leave out the cricut and surecuts alot program
Posted by: A Facebook User | February 25, 2012 at 09:47 AM
The cordless home phone - huge advancement for multi-tasking! Love it!
Posted by: Tami Potter | February 25, 2012 at 12:40 PM
I like some of yours tooTami:
1. Cell phone
2. personal computer/internet
3. Kindle Fire :)
4. Cricut and Cuttlebug
5. Digital Camera
6. Convection Oven and microwave
7. My car . . .
I could go on and on ;)
Posted by: Cherri Simon | February 25, 2012 at 01:26 PM
1. Laptop computers! Love this thing!
2. Kindle fire
3. XBox Kinect!! So cool.
4. Mocrowave oven
5. Garage door opener... It patiently opens and closes the garage door for me 6-10 times per day and I taxi my kids to and from school and activities!
Posted by: Amy Jo Maruschak | February 25, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Gadgets I am grateful for:
1. cell phone - how did we get along without them??
2. DVR - now I can go to bed by 10 and watch favorite shows later!
3. Nook Tablet - now I can travel on vacation without half a suitcase full of books AND stay in touch on Facebook.
4, Digital camera - no limit to the number of pictures I can take, and I don't go bankrupt printing ones that are less that stellar.
6. Cricut!!
7. Laptop - sure beats the typewriter I learned on, a non-electric model from way back.
Posted by: Libby Wiers | February 25, 2012 at 10:15 PM