Gadgetory

we recently had sage reach out to us about sponsoring a piece of content that demonstrated the benefits of their security and home automation ecosystem but as I was sitting on the couch tinkering with their hub that connects to your TV I realized something my son who just turned 4 wasn't impressed at all by the idea that the doorbell ringing could trigger a notification on my phone and a picture in picture view of whoever standing outside he took it completely for granted so I was inspired to create this list of seven differences between when I was his age and today first things first when I was the same age as my eldest son all of my toys required me to do all the voices and the actions myself this friggin thing would have completely blown my mind it even knows his name I'm pretending to be a whore and that's not the only thing that does all the work for you I mean berenstain bears visit the dentist is great and all but this this is progress number two video games were nostalgia filter aside objectively worse and I was one of the lucky ones I had a game gear I mean that thing had a color screen back in 1990 just too bad it only stayed on for about three hours every time you put six double a batteries in it a practice that would probably make the mobile games with autosave generation say very cringe much old man technology if they even say that anymore number three movie content may have been similar or better I'll put homeward bound up against Django Unchained or whatever any day but finding physical media realizing it's not ruined my kids won't even know that those renovations to put it in context I graduated high school when YouTube was invented and my kids will take for granted that watching any video they want is as simple as clicking an icon not to mention the constant interruptions if the doorbell rang during my Saturday morning cartoons I had to get off my butt and go see who it was which okay so nothing quite like that ever happened you can tell because I'm standing here today but this is one of the coolest things about the saige home automation system you've got a picture and picture view of the scary guy so you've at least got a few second head start to go hide under your blanket number four well I'm pretty sure that every generation thinks homework is a total drag trust me kids it was worse when I was a kid I mean that was even before Encarta encyclopedia on cd-rom when we had to actually sign out actual books from an actual library well so much for horrifyingly out of date because yay school funding and don't even get me started on pens I mean between the backspace button and Wikipedia which may not be perfect but it's a great starting point the new generations only excuse for being uninformed is pure laziness which leads us pretty well into number five when I was already snuggled up in bed in the winter I wanted to turn off the lights I had to get off my butt and turn off a light switch or if I was one of the cool kids I might have had a clapper just don't install those things too close to each other by contrast there is an entire generation of people for whom not being able to control lights with a phone or a SmartWatch is going to be completely unthinkable number six communication was a completely different animal thank you cards we're written by hand I'm pretty sure my son has grandma on Facebook and for voice communication you actually had to remember your friends number or look it up in the phone book everyone just doesn't understand me you know and even then privacy was never a guarantee you know just to say hey so I'm listening this this is awesome seven is one thing that may have actually seemed better at the time coming home after school there was pretty much no way for my parents to know if I was actually practicing with piano or not but from a parent's perspective being able to check in on the home and see if workbooks are actually being completed is a pretty big boon number eight music playback has definitely improved CDs brought improved audio quality and easy track skipping but even that improvement over cassette tapes sucks compared to subscription music services that cost the same as a handful of albums per year would've especially when you factor in that most of the songs weren't even things that you'd like with that said though you could make the argument that the quality of the music itself hasn't changed much so thanks for watching guys if this video made you cringe you know what to do but if it was awesome or you know got some of the nostalgia juices flowing hit the like button get subscribed or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon instructions up there by buying a cool shirt like this one link down there or with a direct monthly contribution through our community forum which you can join for nothing by the way and just ask questions answer questions and generally participate in discussion about technology now 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