I wish we had more capital-G Gadgets these days, if for no other reason than they're aesthetically pleasing to me. Little machines full of motors and gears covered in buttons, switches, and knobs, clad in brightly colored plastic moulded to fit in your hands just so. Each one has a specific task that it does very well. The kinda stuff that Sony would make around the turn of the millennium (granted I'd do without all the proprietary connectors, batteries, storage, etc that Sony hampered these things with).
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Related: MiniDisks are super cool and I wish that they became a more viable data storage option. I also wish I had the money to get players and discs to fool around with, but that's tied up with me having no money in general.
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My dream alternate reality is one where Minidisc (or some similar disc-in-caddy format) had the chain of progression like what happened with CD → DVD → Blu-ray and that more people walked around with portable players for music and videos, handheld game consoles that played games off of them, cameras/camcorders saved images to them, and that all these discs could go into a set top box or into a computer and it'd all have some level of interoperability. Hell that's basically how the Retrofuture in my lore works.
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@Cybird The PSP's UMD is basically just Sony reusing the engineering behind their super miniaturized MiniDisc mechanisms but with red lasers and read-only
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@nytpu Yeah, I knew about UMDs. Not nearly Universal enough tbh.
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