I do not have all those things, well I have most of them smart phone (droid version) cameras, laptops, calculators, etc. then thrown in the Icom 706 that fits almost anywhere and covers all the bands that I used to have 4 boat anchors for, automatic tuners, my own personal weather station, my own security cameras, the handheld VX-8R (4 bands in a pack of cigs size<\/strong> that does gps , aprs, etc.)\u2026 wow! That is almost as good as Dick Tracy\u2019s wrist radio? I suspect that we will see even more changes in the next 50 \u2013 well some will, I would like to but not sure I will make<\/strong> another 50 but with the advanced in medicine and science who knows? I am going to try to do my part. – WD0AJG<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am seated here at my desk looking at the array of electronics goodies in front of me.
I have a camera that is less than the size<\/strong> of a pack of cigarettes that will take over 400 12 Megapixel pictures or a 40 minute HD movie.
I have Flip Video camera about the same size<\/strong> that will record 60 minutes of video.
I have a digital voice recorder (for meetings) that will record about 100 hours of audio and it is smaller that a pocket knife.
I’ve a GPS<\/strong> in the car and another GPS<\/strong> for hiking – the second puts me within spitting distance of my location.
I’ve an iPhone that will do all of the above plus make<\/strong> cell calls or access the net through wifi’s and there are so many apps for it that it is absolutely amazing – I’m still learning it’s capabilities.
Calculators – I’ve 4 – 5 around here and take them all for granted.
I’ve got an exercise monitor consisting of a transmitter that straps around my chest and relays my heart<\/strong> rates to a wrist watch receiver which will in turn tell me how long I exercised, my maximum and average heart<\/strong> rates and a fairly accurate estimate of my caloric expenditure.
8 GB<\/strong> memory sticks
And the really amazing thing<\/strong> is that if I had to, I could stuff them all in my pockets at the same time.
Would you have believed these things possible 50 years ago? Even 25?
The only futuristic things on a small scale back in the 50’s and 60’s that I can recall was Dick Tracy’s wrist-watch-two-way-radio<\/strong>. And of course those cigarette pack sized 3 transistor AM<\/strong> radios<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n