Gadgetory

hey guys jon rettinger with john for lakers calm here some of you who follow me on twitter may know that i am moving in two weeks to a new place about two miles away but of course with moving comes packing and finding a whole bunch of old stuff so as i was unpacking and packing new boxes i found some electronics gizmos back from early 2000 some stuff when i was in college and i graduated college in 2003 and even before then so i thought i'd be cool to do a walk-through of technology and john for lakers past so let me go ahead and walk you guys through some of the cool stuff I found so the first thing I'm going to show you guys right here is my first digital camera so first look how big that cases so before I take it out guess what you think the megapixel is for my first digital camera i think this was probably back in 2001 so tiny little LCD screen here right there 1.3 megapixel i remember a olympus commedia i remember having this thing and thinking it was so cool i take pictures digitally it connected with USB and which was still kind of a new technology at the time it had a zoom I mean it really was an impressive thing at the time and I was so happy and proud to have it I think I mean it was just so cool and now my phone have as a better camera than this thing and just look how big it is and this was a pocketable camera for the day you opened it up I remember flash popped out right there put that back yet actually pushed the flash back in kind of Cohen came in this big case I remember walking around this case in my pocket so I was way too cool to put it on my belt and there's me just huge back in the day when pants were about eight times x is too big and super baggy so pretty cool my old digital camera so the next thing I'm a big cell phone guys you guys are coming to realize here's one of my old cell phones that I found when I was with sprint I was in college at the time I believe I was a junior in college that puts this at 2002 I remember begging begging to get this phone was a flip phone was so well I remember it had internet on it just so I could check sport scores I mean it was so advanced for its time you're looking at it now it still doesn't look super outdated I guess it's really thick it was thinner it would still just look like probably a cheap free pay-as-you-go cell phone but it is really big it was a nice phone I remember getting great reception I was always very happy with sprint had to pull out antenna which you don't really see any more push that back in I remember being just a very nice phone see how big the battery was this is before any of the 3g stuff see if it says how big the battery is 3.6 volts which is milliamp hour at hours on nope portable dual-band phone old so I'll put that aside got plenty more stuff here while we're on the phone track here's another old phone i had this one's not as old this one probably is 2004 actually back when 18t was singular a UH nokia phone with just a bizarre keyboard zoom into guys can see that i wasn't that just just a strange keyboard the circles right there i remember always messing up calls it had a really cool feature though you can actually record calls when you're on him faison's record friends all the time fly it back just kind of as a joke so that was actually really quick phone i remember i tried to start a company when i was in college i member using this as a business phone i was making websites i think mostly I was converting these VHS to DVD is what I was doing it was kind of cool so this will give an old cingular sim card in there let's take that up battery on this thing three point 6 volts again so let's see what the old cingular sim card look like so you can get that out I even had a reception booster in there because in my old place I got awful reception if you can see that right there it's like a little sticker you stuck in man didn't do anything and it was super expensive we did that sim card there we go so here is an old cingular wireless sim card this was before Singler became AT&T 32k wow that is a not much storage on there so kind of cool I think go ahead put that back throw the battery back in there all right put that off to the side so I'm getting to some other cool stuff that maybe is a little more interesting but I want to show you some of the other stuff here this is a mini disc player some of the younger younger guys may not even know what this is this was really before I was even a mini disc in there this was before mp3 players really took off mini disc was a technology that Sony pioneered you can actually hold so much information on it so it's better than tapes at the time you can just put all the songs when you want that you can record over it so here's one it was my study mix when I was studying when I was in school Mozart and Beethoven and that kind of stuff you just put it in close it had a little display you could program what it said and what the songs were on it actually was really cool connected to your computer via a little port right there and just plugged in it was not the best quality but it was really neat at the time it was very portable took double-a batteries i really liked it so I had that just some other mini discs I have some green day stuff on it here she had three green day albums so to back in the day to get three albums on one disc like this is actually really impressive next thing I have right here and I'm sure you guys puddle and remember this is a zip disk so this is back from computer select floppy disk drives and CD drives were just kind of not so popular yet zip 100 I think this is just like a hundred megabyte disk and it was a big old dry it was like a big floppy drive you put it in you could sir all your stuff on it this is my word back up files he was probably filled up with probably 10 or 12 we have hundred megabytes so not that many Word documents and really filled it up I remember going to having to get this so i was running out of storage on my Flavius there was 100 megabytes and I distinctly remember thinking that's so big who's ever going to fill up a hundred megabytes so while we're talking about storage I have a storage cart here that I want to show you guys this predates SD and is bigger than SD but there's something kind of cool about it take it out here not throw it on the floor so pretty big storage guy relatively thin take a guess about how much storage you niggas on this it was for Olympus so it was for my digital camera that I just showed you guys look at that eight megabytes eight megabyte card for a 1.3 megapixel camera unbelievable look how big this thing is the standard has gone out so long ago but still kind of cool so the next thing I think you guys maybe might want to see the most is right here the first generation ipod this one actually still has the click wheel that moved around actually might be the second generation ipod had the click wheel that kind of moved around the menu buttons use firewire or was it there's a firewire port to charge i'll show you guys right there on the charger is firewire though apples chargers are still say the same over the years and i remember having this and thinking oh my god so cool I got all my music right here it shows me what it is probably still works yeah firewire port you pulled that off I mean but look how thick this is now I mean compared to two most devices here in this if I remember memory correctly here I believe was ten gigabytes of storage and 10 gigabytes the time was so impressive I'm it's crazy to think that now I have 16 gigabytes right on my phone here's a generation shot still pretty cool to think how far technology has come so another cool thing that I had and actually it came with this case two ipods don't come with real cases anymore is a belt clip of is actually really nice so while i was cleaning up i also found the original box that the ipod came in so we actually had can only get a windows or a mac ipod there wasn't one for both he had actually requested which was kind of strategy became and just use monster boxes so i'm going to do a sort of unboxing i don't know what's left in here haven't opened it up since i found it so let's will walk you guys through him show you what it looks like nothing on top it's got two little boxes right there so it's a break there's a picture of the ipod black and white at the apple logo and this was kind of just the beginning of apple's resurgence so the ipod in the case and i don't think it came with a little clicker to control songs and volume that may have been something i was added later or he had to buy it separately showing the profile on the side and they were showing next they were so proud of how thin it was and now you know years later enjoying that thing is huge but at the time is still pretty cool so i pod windows 16 gigabytes let's see what we got in here I remember buying it from bestbuy when I was in college just thinking wow how cool I've got an ipod I remember wake up all my music apple logo respect some features on the side here holds over 2,000 songs at near CD quality on a 10 gigabyte hard drive at the time that was just so incredible up to 10 hours of meeting you is playback it's actually still really nice super portable at six point five ounces and only point seven two inches thick plays mp3 wav files high-resolution backlit display requires a pc with a FireWire port remember i had to buy an external firewire card and plug it in I know includes an ipod remote so it did come with remote designed by Apple in California assembled in Taiwan shows you how far things have come now everything is assembled in china alright so let's see what we still have left in here open it up apple ipod or two boxes there's still stuff in here Wow um still the original CD though I kept I'm pretty meticulous about keeping things I'm as far as I was back in the day original apple CDs warranty information ipod at a glance let's my ipod it advances turn it on turn it off light it up find out more it's really not that much here i guess it is truly at a glance go ahead and close that up let's see it also we got inside so evidently i had another charger so here's a another firewire ipod charger what's in here I don't know what was in there it's time but I think it's just a cover the ipod came in this little bag which is actually kind of cool is an i-search hobbies maybe still use this for something but that's what was in there this was the important box with all this stuff see what's in the other one this one that just says app pod Wow headphone maybe ipod was in here we're doing headphones and little soft things for the ears these are the original ipod headphones let's eat these look like cuz I'm curious you know these are probably the same ones that were still shipping up until a few years ago nothing terribly fancy just your same here buds close this all back up and I guys this is some stuff I found I thought it would be cool to share with you I was really interested in it I don't know if you guys were but I hope you enjoyed this has been jon rettinger with a history of electronics past if you want some more exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com / john for lakers and be sure to check out the website WWJ in for lakers calm it's all user generated content generated by you hey guys I will see it in the next video bye