How involved are you with technology?

I really enjoy the new technology, and it makes my life so much more interesting and a whole lot easier. I don’t even have a computer anymore, because my iPad does everything that I need to do online. My husband does have one of the Dell all-in-ones , which can also be used as a tablet, but since it is an 18” screen and pretty heavy for a tablet, he just uses it as a desktop in its pedestal. I hear him grumbling at it just about every day, and I don’t miss it one bit !

I have all of my health and activity apps on the iPhone, so I can track every aspect of my health, as well as my exercise, and food intake. I don’t make a lot of calls, and text even less, so I use the phone for other things more than as an actual phone.
I have an Apple Watch and so my phone can just stay in my purse and I can answer it with my “Dick Tracy” wrist-phone.

For reading, I use my Kindle, and I love that I can adjust the print to a size that is easy for me to read, plus it is backlit, so I don’t have to have a lamp focused on it like I did with a regular book. The kindle is portable, and holds hundreds of books, so it is easy to take along in my purse if I am traveling and want to be able to sit and read.

The early Apple Watch was more for younger people, business or athletics oriented folks, but it has caught on so well with the older generation that the new Apple Watch 4 that just was introduced is focused on applications for seniors.
It can sense if you fall, or pass out, and will alert you to ask if you need help. You can answer it with voice or by pushing a button, and if you are unconscious and can’t answer, then it calls emergency help, and shows your location.
It senses if your heartbeat is either too slow, or too fast, and can tell if you are in arrythmia .
You can also now even take an electrocardiogram with your watch, and send it to your doctor. It is truly amazing what the new watch can do !

 
Happyflowerlady said:
For reading, I use my Kindle, and I love that I can adjust the print to a size that is easy for me to read, plus it is backlit, so I don’t have to have a lamp focused on it like I did with a regular book. The kindle is portable, and holds hundreds of books, so it is easy to take along in my purse if I am traveling and want to be able to sit and read.
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I have the Libby app for my iPhone. It's my local library at my fingertips. It has tens of thousands of ebooks and audio books that I can borrow instantly, for free, all from my phone. It can do anything I can do at my physical library...search for a specific book or author or title, or place a hold on an ebook or audio book that is currently out, and send it to my phone with an email alert as soon as it becomes available!

I listen to audio books all the time while I'm working if I don't have to interact with a client, when I'm driving (I do a lot of driving) or when Ron and I go on trips and we're we have one of those lulls in the conversation, or the one who's not driving wants to take a nap or read.

I had a kindle for the longest time, as a separate device, but now I can get the Kindle app for my iPhone, which I sometimes use also, though the Libby app mostly does everything I ever needed the Kindle for.
 

I have been using a computer and internet since the 90s. Most technology I find OK. That being said, I have a cell phone ONLY because my husband says he wants me to have it "for safety". If I were not with him, I probably still would not have one. I like the remotes for the TV, though I usually end up having DH program them. We have Smart TV, which I love. I can do all my streaming on it..Hulu, YouTube, Amazon Prime. We cut the cable, so we get all our movies and stuff from streaming. Have antennas for local TV stations.
I usually take to it well, end embrace learning new things. But the technology that still baffles me is the stuff in the cars these days. I do not get most of it.
 
I vividly recall my then 5 year old grandson instructing my wife on using a computer. He is now a mid 20s computer engineer, but he lives 1200 miles from here so we don't get any instruction anymore.
Our daughter bought me a smartphone back in July. At the rate that I am going I should have it figured out by July 2020.
 
Ronni said:
Oh, there IS such a thing!!! :coolthumb: Amazon sells them, as one of many retailers who do!!!

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Actually, not surprised.
In my working days, I belonged to a think tank.
It was made up of top level execs, engineers (all kinds), and other money people (those that owned businesses of businesses), aaaaand (cough) attorneys (spit, puke).

I was there as the jingle guy….creating catchy phrases.

My claim to fame was for a small gun safe with fingerprint access.
I offered THE GRYPP
‘Be safe, be ready, get a GRYPP’
GRYPP being an acronym for Gun Retrieval Instant Personal Preparedness…that wasn’t it, but close, can’t recall.

Anyway, they got off on it until the attorneys needed the word ‘gun’ removed.

Pissed me off.

So

I shot them

Juuust kidding
It was, however, my fantasy.

After that, I submitted several product ideas of my own, of which my boss would fish a magazine outta his drawer and say, ‘You mean wunna these?’

So, yeah, not surprised.

The reviews for the hologram keyboard are a bit mixed.
Still….$29 bucks…hmmmm
 
I love technology! I use my iPad Pro to play my sheet music from. Beats lugging around big binders full of music. I am new to the iPhone as well but love it even though I don't use it all that much. I actually text with my kids and talk to them more that way. They were not much for calling and talking so I consider the iPhone a good way to keep in touch with the kids in the way they like to communicate.
 

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