Try that trick with an iPhone.
My mobile phone is a squat, gently rectangular Nokia that is older than my nieces and nephew (two of whom are school-age), which means that I get guffaws and/or looks of pity whenever I'm seen with it. Still, I adore that phone -- it does the two things I want it to do, which are making calls and receiving calls. Also, I once accidently backed over my current phone with my Volvo 940 sedan, which is not a light car, and the only damage it sustained was a bit of scratching to the screen! I don't have the best vision so a fancy phone with a screen smaller than an index card is almost unusable for me and I see no reason for 'upgrading' to the ability to be bombarded with emails and Twits and status updates and the like when all I want to do is make a call. It seems that if you can access all forms of communication at all times, then you're expected to put aside whatever it is you're doing at the moment and respond to the technological summons. Me, I prefer to just enjoy my holiday or film or trip to the grocery store or whatever. Besides, my friends don't laugh so much at my phone when it's the only one around not dropping calls or losing reception!
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:04, 2 replies)

Sam Coupe
Yup hailed as the mighty successor to the humble but mighty speccy, it is still floating around and gets used from time to time just to try and get some value for money out of it.

Oh and my phone is a nokia 3310, thought it was the dogs when I first got it...it still works now.
(bluehamster, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:04, Reply)

I sometimes use my right hand
Even though I have a girl to play with
(Dwarfsmuggler Has hogtied Snow White, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)

I have an Atari 520st with extra disk drive and monitor
I've not played on it for years and it won't flog on Ebay, I might have to get it all out and have a play on it now, I'm sure I've still got all 3 Gobliiins disks.
( Mrs. Spatum, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:01, 8 replies)

I still use Amigas
not just for playing old games, but I actually use them for developing application software, composing music, reading email, browsing the web. All that kind of stuff.
( Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:49, 10 replies)

I still twat chicks with my club
job done, bosh. None of that trendy rohypnol nonsense needed here ta.
( broadsword w⚓, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:44, 2 replies)

I consider
any grown man who wears a battery powerd wrist watch a complete rotter, probably a shyster and undoubtedly a fool. Particularly those who spend a grand on a “prestige” brand, and end up with a £10 quartz movement on thier wrist.

There's something about springs and cogs that makes things correct.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:43, 6 replies)

Monkey Island
Recently downloaded and completed Monkey Islands 1 and 2 off of the xbox marketplace. Enjoyed revisiting the old jokes and puzzles but with shiny new graphics and all....

but its just not the same as when i was on my Atari for hours, scouring computer mags for "tips" on how best to use my rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle et all.


they dont make action adventure games like they used to, and the internet has killed off puzzle solving
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:41, 27 replies)

I'm constantly out of cash,
instead of having an unpayable credit card debt.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:40, Reply)

I still use my hands for all sorts of things
despite them having been rendered obsolete by the Fleshlight.
(electricteeth, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:37, Reply)

So,
I was just going into Toshi Station to pick up some power converters...
(McChinaman banned, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:37, 1 reply)

I still...
... use a sink to wash my dishes.
(Freakmandu, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:35, 8 replies)

1) Mobile phones.

I refuse, on principle, to buy shiny, brand spanking-new up-to-date mobiles. I'm currently on my 4th phone since 2000, which is a battered, but perfectly serviceable old Nokia. The advantage of this is that I've spent precisely £40 on handsets over the last 10 years, because 3 of the phones were given to me by people willing to splurge loads of money on pointlessly shiny gadgets

2) Books

I will never, ever, ever see the point of ebooks. I like having piles of books everywhere. I like having no room in my bedroom/living room on account of such piles. I like the fact that they are tangible, and at times, inconvenient. I would like to buy an ereader about as much as I would like to spend eternity fellating Bono whilst having my testicles removed by the application of emery cloth.
(anvil, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:35, 9 replies)

A friend of mine absolutely abhors the most of the technology of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
He's currently writing a novel (and actually managing to do so) in longhand. When visiting he and his wife in Wales, my bedroom has by it a candle in a "Wee Willy Winky" dish, replete with snuffer. The house is heated only by the log fire in the living room, and he rarely uses the electric lights. He was highly commended in the BBC's Wildlife photographer of the year, for a shot he took with a Victorian plate camera, and he cuts his garden lawn with a scythe - for which he has two blades, obviously. He drinks red wine, and a couple of years ago decided to take up smoking, of which he takes a pipe, naturally, and now instructs me to replenish his favoured tobacco - which can only be had from a shop in Picadilly - whenever I visit.

Television? What?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:34, 1 reply)

I'm still using a Hawking-Heisenberg drive.
It never breaks, and even though it's a bit less accurate than an iTravel, so what? It's not like I'm going to end up before time travel was invented and out of fuel.

EDIT: Oh dear.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:33, 3 replies)

I am the harbinger of...
...new TV technology.

When I bought my (rather pricey, not to mention bulky) Panasonic flatscreen CRT in the mid 90s, the very next press release from Panasonic was for their swanky new plasma TVs.

This time last year, I decided I'd give in to technological advance and buy myself a nice big HD plasma screen (40" - it's the bollocks!). Within a month, the first 3D TVs were announced.

Fucknuts!

By the time I can justify spending another grand on a new 3D telly to myself (and my missus), 3D TVs will be superseded by some super-duper gizmo that beams the images directly to the visual cortex, bypassing the inferior image reproduction of the human eyeball. Or something.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:26, 6 replies)

I don't have an iphone
So I might as well kill myself
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:25, 11 replies)

Obsolete technology-
My home is a shrine to it! Most of the radio and audio devices are valve powered, and I even have a nice wind up gramaphone and a huge stack of 78's to play on it.

In the shed is a cottage lighting plant, driven by a petrol engine, that came from the factory in 1928 and would be great if you wanted to run your house on 50 volts DC.

Photography, well that would be a 35mm system using real film, none of this digital nonsense.

Timekeeping duties are carried out by a lovely old pendulum driven electric master clock.

If you want to use the landline, the telephone is a large black bakelite device with a shiny chromium plated dial and not a push button in sight.

Not that I think all modern technology is bad, I have a computer, mobile phone, and a flat screen television, etc, but I think it is sad that a lot of this high tech stuff is effectively disposable, either due to being unrepairable should it become faulty, or merely that it has become unfashionable.

Maybe I should just change my name to Ned Ludd and be done with it.
(Snabblim Dropfritt, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:22, 1 reply)

I still use the internal combustion engine.
My motorcycle and car are both propelled by a grossly inefficient design a century-and-a-bit old.

Where's my personal nuclear fusion-powered transport, eh?
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:22, 9 replies)

I still pull out.

(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:21, Reply)

Letters
There can be nothing that fits the description of "redundant technology" than the good, old-fashioned letter.

My best friend growing up was Alan. Same age as me, we'd met at school at became mates pretty quickly. This was in the early 90s. Although we were learning in IT about a "network of computers worldwide" and the prospect of "electronic mail", we were still a few years away from seeing the explosion of web addresses, emails and internet stuff in general and as such the main form of long distance communication was by phone or letter.

Alan had a cousin who, a couple of years older than us, had just completed his A Levels. For reasons that are beyond me now, Alan and his cousin used to exchange letters every few weeks in a matter that would befit penpals.

One day, Alan received a letter full of normal witterings, but signed off in a way that he had never seen before, and couldn't understand what the strange sentence meant.

"Mum..." he asked as he approached his very conservative mother, reading aloud from the bottom of the letter, "what does 'See you NT' mean?"

It was only speaking it aloud, coupled with the jaw-dropping horror displayed by his mum, that he realised he had been stitched up by his cousin.
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:17, 1 reply)

Amateur Radio.... Don't talk to me about it...
My boss loves this shit. He humps a rucksack FULL of equipment with wires and ariels and what looks like a car battery, up a hill in Northumberland and is AMAZED he can talk to someone 25 miles away on another hill "on 2 metres" WTF? WWWHHAATT TTHHEEE FUCKKK?

His house looks like the local Taxi office with wires up and down the garden, MAASSSIIVEEE poles up the side of the house, ariels, scaffolding - the lot. Nevermind the string of complaints from neighbours when he fires it all up, lights dim in the street and everyones TV goes off!

And the kit - have you seen the price? £1200 for 1 thing. and he has several of these things. Transceivers or something. You can't even listen into the rozzers anymore either - local security guards and even more mudane toss than that!

AND these guys have to pass 'tests' to allow them to do this and have codenames!

AND They get these names/photos made into postcards - AND SEND THEM TO EACH OTHER AS PROOF THEY'VE TALKED! AAaaAArrRRRgggGGHHFFFffmmPPUuuppmmff!!!!!

He's a programmer too - but won't go past VB6. "too many pictures" in the newer VB studios.... i don't even know what that means!
(TheManofScience, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:03, 12 replies)

Retro Gaming
Like I suspect many other b3tans - I have a nostalgic tingle for retro gaming. In the last year I bought an Amiga 1200 and a Megadrive, and my wife found her Master System. Bloody love them. Got emulators installed on every PC, plus on my DS with a NAWTY NAWTY R4 CARD.

It's weird being able to have almost the entire history of 8 and 16 bit console gaming on a device the size of a fingernail.

Saying that, nothing beats playing the games on the proper consoles with the proper controllers. It's also more exciting when you see the cartridges in the flesh!

(BTW, any other retro gaming geeks going to R3play in Blackpool this weekend?)
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:02, 10 replies)

physical money
With the creation and availability of debit cards, what's the point of physical money?
(Wibblist Last said "Wibble" on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:01, 24 replies)

Dock leaves for nettle stings
Warm milk and honey for sleeping

Licking a wound to help it heal

Writing letters

Walking, running, riding a bike or doing manual labour to exercise

Walking the hills

Enjoying the view

Chatting to friends face to face

Being with Mrs Vagabond, who is a real lady

Teasing my nephews and neices

Having a nice meal

Sitting quietly
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:50, 7 replies)

Commadore 64
I found one of those beasts for sale in a carboot sale when I was younger. Not being allowed a playstation at the time I instantly bought it. (I am of the playstation generation of consoles Commadore 64 to me is as much ancient history as jesus, the dinosaurs and Status Quo)

I also managed to find a few tapes at a different stall.

I brought it home and fell in love with the thing. The weird colours it would turn my TV screen while loading, the fact it ran on tapes, how weirdly dated everything was.

For example one game pit fighter- if you did well your name would be entered into the Top Ten "Studliest" pit fighters.

My Friends hated it- it took so long to load you were able to cook- AND EAT a pasta meal. (well plain pasta- I wasn't a great cook as a kid)

but I loved it. I had an older cousins Victor Annual which gave you a game you could programme into it but I never got around to it.
(FondaAccord, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:48, 1 reply)

Toilet paper
I still haven't figured out how to use the three seashells :(
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:43, 6 replies)

Your mum.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:36, Reply)

Letters
I'm not sure if it counts as tec, but I still send letters in the post, I even have a pen pal who I write too. I only found out this was odd when I asked if any one had a stamp at work and got asked if I'd ever heard of facebook.
(Mong goose, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:34, 3 replies)

Windows XP

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:34, 13 replies)