What modern technological equipment baffles you?

[gavroche]

I can't get my head round how sewing machines and printers work. They work so fast and are so efficient in producing excellent results every time, it is just a miracle for me.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

1790 - sewing machines
1938 - xerox printers

Very modern

 

[Yellow Fang]

I can't work out how other people's remote controls work.

 

[winjim]

Printers are bastards.

Eighty years and they still can't make the things work properly? Honestly, I work with loads of high tech lab equipment and the thing that gives me the most grief is sodding printers.

 

[jayonabike]

Vacuum flasks.
Keep hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold.


I mean , like how does it know ?



Amazing

 

[jongooligan]

Printers are bastards.

I've tried to eliminate these from my life. Haven't printed anything since ~2011.

Our washing machine baffles me. What do 'Dark care' & 'Cotton eco' mean?

 

[Yellow Fang]

Also I have difficulties with those automated shopping tills, i.e. the ones that tell you that you have an unexpected item in the baggage area. I nearly always end up wanting to hurl my tins of chick pea dahl at the screen. Which is why I always queue up at the manned shopping tills.

 

[gavroche]

1790 - sewing machines
1938 - xerox printers

Very modern

I did say "modern" machines.
Did they have electricity in 1790 ?
Could they print colour photos in seconds in 1938?

 

[postman]

All of it.

 

[screenman]

Washing machines.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Not modern any more, but I never had more than a 50% success rate at setting my video player to record a programme.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Windows 8. Nuff said.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Tindr, never seem to get any responses.

 

[Accy cyclist]

This electric money stuff. It's not real money is it. Real money is tenners and pound notes.Not a print on a bank statement that you have X amount of money in your bank. One swipe and it could all be wiped out. If i won the lottery(as they say)i'd want my dosh in gold bullion,not made up money.

 

[winjim]

My Garmin etrex 20. I have never got to grips with it at all, but apparently I am not the only one.

I'm quite happy with mine, but I've only ever used it for recording or to follow a pre-plotted route. I've never asked it to work out a route for me. Maybe I should, see where I end up.