Essential Tech?

[portseven]

Not bought any tech for over 18months, quite fancy getting something, though don't know what I fancy

I have a laptop that is good for another year or two, got iPads, got decent monitors, got a smartphone...

Anything you can't do without?

[eek]

Not bought any tech for over 18months, quite fancy getting something, though don't know what I fancy

I have a laptop that is good for another year or two, got iPads, got decent monitors, got a smartphone...

Anything you can't do without?

I picked up a Logitech MX800 keyboard and mouse when Amazon had 20% off warehouse stock last week. And very nice it was....

[stek]

Got a Line 6 Variax modelling guitar and Ampli-Fi - load of digitised tulip, I'm proper analogue me I decided.

[vetran]

Large Monitor > 32" now UHD is out. £200-300

Perfect for lunch a la conference call when you have important stuff to do in the lunch hour. I like to walk around and tidy up while the divisional CIO is boring all 500 of us to tears. I like to really snooze if the VP is talking.

USR/Polycom soundstation £50 (previously enjoyed on ebay) again feet up for conf call and tames the accents nicely you can feed it from the PC.

Adjustable lighting (back lit -> front lit) I have 6 lights on a Set of Siemens (JSJS) switches. 60 watts of LED lighting flood lights my desk like a football stadium.

Alexa Dot - great for music / radio / traffic etc. Unlike DAB it can get a signal in wet paper bag. Feed into an Amp & big speakers your ears will thank you.

Nice clicky Keyboard.

Docking station with the USB3 ones you can get HD grade video & decent ethernet. Just one connection to your laptop, no need to faff about connecting lots of cables if you need to move away.

External HDD / NAS / Cloud for backups

I have a Trust wireless mouse as I have big hands - and you know what that means ladies

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Big Gloves!!!

Decent chair!

Nail artist / dentists magnifying LED anglepoise lamp, my eyesight isn't what it was and the writing on components , sims etc is smaller, get the ones at £40 from ebay the steel is thick! Not the one from Maplin mine tore through the hinges in 3 months.

Hot Glue Gun , with this Superglue & epoxy you can fix anything!

[NotAllThere]

Smartwatch. Perhaps a ZeTime. https://www.mykronoz.com/uk/en/

[Hobosapien]

or if you are or want to get fit, a GPS sports watch such as the those by TomTom or for more high end Garmin. All cover walking/running but some also cycling and swimming for triathlete/wannabe's.

I got one at the start of trying the Couch to 5k programme and it helped me see the progress over the weeks for motivation it was really working. All sorts of stats to peruse when uploaded into the app that comes with them.

As for IT related tech, I find it all so boring these days. Nothing really innovating in recent years, other than cardboard VR headsets. Last worthwhile items I bought were SSD upgrades and a 40" UHD monitor. Nothing else really sparks my interest so I try to find stuff to get me away from the desk staring at a computer monitor all day.

[WTFH]

iPad holder for the mic stand (no need for sheet music)
Canon 100-400mm MkII

[woohoo]

Not bought any tech for over 18months, quite fancy getting something, though don't know what I fancy

I have a laptop that is good for another year or two, got iPads, got decent monitors, got a smartphone...

Anything you can't do without?

oculus rift or a htc vive - I have neither but I've spent all my tech money for this quarter on a graphics card.

[Scruff]

Corkscrew

[xoggoth]

Smartwatch. Perhaps a ZeTime. https://www.mykronoz.com/uk/en/

Brought a smart watch on a whim the other day. Pretty useful on walks as it has a clear stopwatch and pedometer. Various facilities via Bluetooth, unfortunately can't the appropriate app on my ancient smartphone to connect it.