What's the first "Newest Technology" you remember?

[walkinghorse]

Fiberglassing a boat my Dad built, I think this was around 52 or 53.Watching my Dad with help from my Mom, in Roswell, and the liquid set up very fast in the summer heat! Observed some heated exchanges in several ways. Then first BW TV in Rapid City. We lived on Signal Hill where the station and antennas were so we got a strong signal when there was a signal.
55 Ford had the first AC I ever saw.

 

[JohnHL]

The first "technology" I can't clearly recall but certainly did use was the Baby Bottle.

Before the invention of the Baby Bottle, babies used a part of the female anatomy until they could use a cup.

John

 

[Baggy Wrinkle]

In 1955 we moved to Bordeaux, France from Washington State and bought a car with front wheel drive; a Panhard Dyna. What made that such a big deal was how easily it drove through snow from an unexpected storm in early 1956. My Dad was thrilled he didn’t have to put on chains, which didn’t exist there anyway.

 

[andy52]

I'll agree with some here on the pocket calculator but the transistor radio would come is a close second.

 

[keith44spl]

The color wheel for the Christmas tree.

Rusty,
We got one of those new colored light things for the
aluminum Christmas tree when she and I first married.
Dave

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[Camster]

Thought I was really a modern man when I got a beeper.
For the last seen years, I've managed to get by without a cell phone, quite happily. I'll add. My friends can contact me by landline,Skype, or email.

 

[GypsmJim]

Kinda funny you said that. My second car (Mercedes 250C) had a factory 8 track player in it. I happened by a Radio Shack one day and found out they made a cassette adapter for my 8 track so I could play the more modern medium.

My car STILL has an 8-track. OEM factory installed. We play music on it at cruise night every once in awhile.

 

[Dave_n]

I still use my "slip stick" at times as a 6" one is very easy to slide into a pocket and does not need a "charge". I get a "charge" out of seeing people of all ages wanting to know what it is. Dave_n

 

[GypsmJim]

I often like to say, only somewhat tongue in cheek, that the two greatest inventions of the 20th century are suitcases with wheels and disposable diapers. Anyone who recalls dealing with either of their predecessors will well understand the sentiment...

Some improvements also come with unintended consequences.

Last year I read an article that showed the cradle-to-grave lifespans of some common things.

For example, a paper garbage bag filled with garbage will eventually turn to earth in so X months. A plastic garbage bag filled with garbage will take X years. Plastic milk bottles will take XX years.

Of all items and products made in the world, the item that will take the longest to decompose is.................a disposable baby diaper. I don't remember the time span but I said to myself:
"Wholly Mackerel". Truth is that every single diaper that was EVER manufactured is still in existence.....somewhere.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I still use my "slip stick" at times as a 6" one is very easy to slide into a pocket and does not need a "charge". I get a "charge" out of seeing people of all ages wanting to know what it is. Dave_n

My dad was so fast with his that he could start fires with it.

 

[IAMSWUTIAMS]

Color TV and remote (clicker) control.

Sent from my old rotary phone using Tapatalk [emoji3513]

 

[Rustyt1953]

Color TV and remote (clicker) control.

I was dad's tv remote.

 

[Breakaway500]

E-lectronic ignition in cars, early 70s. I had barely mastered points..

 

[JcMack]

1. Pocket Fisherman
2. Top Coverage
3. Womans Suffrage
4. Billy Bass

 

[Warren Sear]

(old fart voice) I remember when the rainbowsh went from black and white tuh color. Yesh, shonny, that wash a big deal, tell you wut.

 

[pasound]

My mother was the techie in my family. Built fighter plane instrument panels at Lockheed in WWII, and her interests caused us to always have the newest "thing". There was a B&W TV in our house before I was born (1950), thus my earliest memories are staring over the top of my playpen to see the flickering images. We had a "Radar Range" in about 1956 - early beta microwave. It almost burned the house down. Color TV? About 1961. Dad bought an extended warranty - good thing, as the repairman was out at least once a month for years. I was shocked to see Matt Dillon wore a pink shirt. Had a TI calculator for my college freshman year in 1968 - cost as much as a decent used car. It lasted until the 80's, and I still have the Sharp ElsiMate I replaced it with (yes, it's over 40 years old and I use it every day). My first "real" computer was a Tandy laptop from 1990. It finally failed just three years ago. Upgraded it from DOS to Windows 3.1 and it just kept going. I have bought, built and tossed over two dozen desktops and laptops since.

My biggest personal tech shock? Going from 14.4 kbs dial-up to 1 Mb cable in less than three years - then to my 1 Gb cable less than five years after that.

Still doesn't help me bid faster on Gun Broker...

 

[Tom S.]

Fire. Then the wheel.

 

[UncleEd]

Television (though technically it was
already up and stumbling before WWII).

Next the microwave oven.

Though in my memory we had an icebox
and then came a refrigerator before TV
or other luxuries of the day.

 

[S42N8]

The microcomputer. My H.S. got one of the early Apple IIe models, which was a serious upgrade from the dial-up/acoustic coupler teletype-to-mainframe system we newbs slaved on writing Basic. (Child of the 60s, yep.)

 

[Watchdog]

What's the first "Newest Technology" you remember?

Indoor plumbing. Seriously.