The Small Perks of Technology

[KemoKa]

Give us your stories/examples of places and times in your life when you love how a certain piece of technology does something in one of those really quirky ways.

For instance,

My house is wired for electricity very weirdly, and because of this, whenever I turn on the lights in my bedroom, it creates a small fluctuation in the house's grid, not enough to blow a fuse or turn something off, but just enough to lightly nudge my computer (which is sleeping when I get home) awake. So I come into my bedroom, turn on my lights, and my computer is ready to rock straightaway without me even sitting down.

[CCap]

I have my monitors configured with my lights, so they're plugged into a power strip in the top outlet so whenever I turn on my light/fan my monitors turn on.

 

Also, my monitor has been its fair share of flights of stairs (my old asus one that is) so whenever I turn it on it makes weird purple-ish colors for a few seconds, but then goes right back to normal once it finishes powering on

[Garuger]

i fixed a 60s rotation phone, a 97 laptop with mmx core 64 mb ram and installed win xp along with a laptop of 2000 with pentium 3 and 128 mb ram . Does that count?

[Tsuki]

google wallet saved me from starving to death when i left my wallet at home

[Tafel_Kafel]

Well, Cherry MX switches are a small plus.

>doesn't get the thread

>makes a shitty joke

[KemoKa]

Well, Cherry MX switches are a small plus.

>doesn't get the thread

>makes a shitty joke

That post gave me the cancers...

[Horrorfull]

I like how my PC warms my room up in the winter.

[-ism]

My PS3 would turn my TV on with it, so that was always cool. Or maybe it was my Xbox 360, cant remember, it was long ago.

[evinta]

Just knowing that google can tell me what time it is when the clocks go forward/backward.

[connorpiper]

My PS4 and my monitors have the same Sleep/Wake LED light color and tone. As well as the same kind of glossy black plastic.

Also, I really like the sound of my HDD when it wakes up, while the computer is on. 

And because google now is good for when you are driving, it is very useful when you are playing ETS 2.

[DigitalHermit]

Google now helps me in class when I need to search stuff really quickly...

[Psykomantis00]

I prefer small and perky. 

[KemoKa]

I prefer small and perky. 

... if this means what I think it means, then I agree.

[StarFire]

Well, It kinda both made my money and spent it all.

 

Not so much a tech perk, but I can rest my phone on my.. well... you know the two things... when I'm in bed. Dont have to hold it when watching linus streams

[KemoKa]

Not so much a tech perk, but I can rest my phone on my.. well... you know the two things... when I'm in bed. Dont have to hold it when watching linus streams

I thought you were a guy for a sec and I was about to

*slowly closes laptop*

 

And then I looked at your profile and then decided fair enough. I concede, that is one useful use for a chest that I had not thought of...

[lutewan]

Well, It kinda both made my money and spent it all.

 

Not so much a tech perk, but I can rest my phone on my.. well... you know the two things... when I'm in bed. Dont have to hold it when watching linus streams

yeah i can do that too

ooh god im fat

[StarFire]

I concede, that is one useful use for a chest that I had not thought of...

. Yep.

Sometime's i'm really glad to be female, but I guess I owe the phone holders to my parent's genes.

[Jambls]

yeah i can do that too

ooh god im fat

Wait, I thought you were Sips.

*Cries as the illusion shatters.

[Ruostunut kokis]

Well... Like for a lot of people here, PC acts as a heater during winters... I guess that counts?

 

In the former house we lived in this "feature" was useless, as the radiator under the window was at the max heating 24/7 all year around (why?). In this current house though, my room's radiator doesn't seem to heat much, so the extra heat from the PC is appreciated.