jobbiesWrong answers only - what is this?
SmuuthbraneIt’s a telemarketing prevention device. Hook it up to your phone line, and the number of telemarketing calls would drop instantly.
Broadfern
wizardbeardA picture
I’m not sure if I should upvote or downvote.
This is supposed to be wrong answers but…
UltraHamster64It’s obviously wrong because it’s a post on lemmy
Or is it a charge on a magnetic medium somewhere?
It’s just all weird when you get down to the science.
A chip tuner?!? Wow, that’s awesome, we don’t get to make music in modern cars. Did they have XLR outs or was it just 1/8th inch jack?
RiskablePortable Chat GPT
A pager
HornedMeatBeastIt lets you hear a computer scream.
It was a scream of pleasure
Fine, a Millennial detector.
Says right on it, They Robotics
plateee
Zachariah
MwaRobot mobile heater
It dispenses robotic ticks to confuse and annoy your enemies
negativenullWhite Noise Machine
TrackinDaKrakenIt’s an external MIDI board. It has built in speakers, but also stereo out RCA ports in the back so you could hook it to an amp.
TechMoan covered it a couple of years ago:
Philips crazy Ski Slope Cassette Deck
AmbientDreadA magic packet pulse perpetuator and upline / downline pyramid scheme facsimile facilitator aka MPPPUDPSFF
Stefen AurisCPAP machine
cannedtunaNot really what you’re looking for, but it immediately made me think of an intercom device.
I recently stayed at a rental property that had this (actual photo):
I tried to get it working but none of the remote panels worked. They were all disconnected somehow (owner probably cut the wires to prevent shenanigans by guests cranking the volume then leaving it like that). The CD player worked (central panel only) but oddly, it couldn’t pick up any FM stations. It would tune to them (“scan” feature worked) but they only ever produced static. I suspect the capacitors used in the amplification circuit dried out or something got corroded after being in a “regular ocean salt spray” area (it was on a beach) for such a long time 🤷
My home came with one of those. I ripped it out and replaced it with a touchscreen powered by a pi running custom html for a lcars interface for home security and music. I never got around to re wiring the intercom part. It’s on my list.
That’s pretty cool! Friend of mine rented a house that had a working home intercom system, and the radio actually worked and played through the house. I’ve never seen one with a CD Player built in tho!
bufalo1973The unreleased last 8 bit console. Joysticks not included.
Wow! This brings back memories… It was a Soul Crusher: A primitive technology used to commune with the dead over long distances. I’ll explain…
These devices used the “Afterlife Toll” (AT) command set, invented by someone named “Hayes” which I believe was just a nickname or mistranslation of Hades. With the correct invocation, you could whisper into the great beyond. Here’s an example:
ATDT 6665551234
Translated: “Afterlife Toll, Death Touch <helliphone number>”. After this invocation, the user would hear the pleasant sound of souls being crushed in order to make the afterlife connection.
Of course—due to the popularity of such devices—crushing souls over long distances could get expensive so a number of Incorporeal Service Providers (ISP) sprang up to make it cheaper and easier than ever to crush souls from anywhere.
Cool fact: This is where the term, “soul crushing machines” comes from! These days, soul crushing is fully automated and far beyond the measure of Beings Per Seance (BPS). Nearly every computer is shipped with an ethernet connection and practically everyone is walking around with devices that can commune over WIFI (Wailing Incorporeal Fidelity).
In fact, our Incorporeal Technology (IT) is so advanced, you can have a soul crushing experience from anywhere in the world at all hours of the day, every day!
That’s a DEC-talk speech synthesizer right?
potoooooooo ✅️Famously used in the song Jesus Freak
DVD+R are self rewinding, the DVD-R are not.
neuracnu
parzivalRemote control for the US Robotic Soccer Sports Team.
(I used to have shelves of those wired into Portmasters when starting my ISP. After replacing the analog modems with pri digital modems we took the shelving outside and gave it the Office Space treatment.)
It’s a practical joke device. Using it pisses off your mum and makes her shout “get off that damn computer I want to call your aunt Judith”
Jokes on you my mom never called my aunt Judith
Toes♀Answering machine