I miss Weird Sony
@obsoletesony "That would look really good in the background of a shot from an 80s or 90s science fiction film with a decent budget, but using it would give one repetitive stress disorder" Sony
@obsoletesony ah yes the promotional gunblade laptop
@obsoletesony Wild that we used to have cyberdecks that people are trying to build on Reddit now.
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Gravis has made a detailed review video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-BRBmv34k
Lost Futures: Sony's Streaming... Camcorder Laptop?? [Vaio PCG-GT1]

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@LukePhilipps @obsoletesony the definition of “read the comment before write 😂”
I saw the photo, I link the same video 😂😂😂😂😂

@obsoletesony Finally, a palmtop computer with a built in fleshlight.

I'm guessing it's a camera that can swivel but I'm struggling to figure out how you're supposed to hold it to take pictures.

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Fleshlight laptop

@TheBreadmonkey @obsoletesony didn't they just play at the #6Music Festival this weekend?
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@TheBreadmonkey @obsoletesony One of my favourite “new” words, or one that was new to me many years ago, which I probably have not actually used before is… “teledidonics”.
@obsoletesony Oh f. You sure it's not AI generated? XD
@obsoletesony https://youtu.be/zB-BRBmv34k
I Miss when there was no standard way to do things so everyone try their way to do things.
Lost Futures: Sony's Streaming... Camcorder Laptop?? [Vaio PCG-GT1]

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@obsoletesony I LOVED the idea and the story behind it, most certainly not just me loving Cathode Ray Dude's way of telling stories :))
@obsoletesony I did not know about it until 1 min. ago, and now I miss it too.

@obsoletesony sony was filled with Great Ideas™. Sell something for a year. A year later, refuse to fix it. A year after that, deny you ever sold it and remove any reference to it.

Their solution was always "throw it away and buy a NEW SONY!"

Fukdat. Last "new" Sony thing I bought was possibly 20 years ago.

@obsoletesony Oh Vaio styling ..don't ever change. Sweet, sweet purple.

@obsoletesony Discussion question: Is Weird Sony its own timeline or just a subset of Weird Japan as a whole, the era that brought us the Toyota Previa and the Audio-Technica Sound Burger?

It's not like people don't crave and buy weird stuff anymore, so why aren't they dispensing it?

@obsoletesony @tchambers The promise of this was finally realized with the iPad. Now, countless parents may be found holding up iPads to film their kid’s performances.
10 Nokia mobile phones you can't believe existed

We decided to take a trip down memory lane with Nokia and explore 10 of their weirdest and most wonderful mobile phones. From leaf-shaped designs to innovative engineering, we can't believe these phones ever existed.

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At the time I would never buy one, but I really liked that they tried new things. Like the one in leather.

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Right?! I had an N90 back around 2007.
That phone was so much fun, and had an incredible camera for the time.

@obsoletesony The Vaios were amazing...
@obsoletesony I was about 90% convinced this was a @NanoRaptor special, initially.
@obsoletesony oh wow what a fun form factor. combining it with a camera!

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That's quite a GUI for a vacuum cleaner 

@obsoletesony I remember that news piece from its release! https://youtu.be/8AyVh1_vWYQ
Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

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@obsoletesony the perfect machine to run the Sonique media player !

@obsoletesony The same laptop reviewed in This Does Not Compute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtuKqd-LWog

Sony's Unique Tiny Laptop Had a Unique CPU Too

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@obsoletesony Except it doesn't have this Camera modulator doohickey
@obsoletesony Ok... maybe a wrong model... Oops!