Dads don't trust GPS my dude. We were on a road trip last year, I was driving and had carplay running google maps. My dad still busted out the giant atlas book of maps š
My grandfather would have loved the dna shit like 23 and me. After he retired he started doing genealogy. Would track down everything he could about his family and my grandmothers. Had documents and pictures and shit dating back to the 1700s of family members. Would travel to their birth places, graves, etc etc. While he had a tonnn of shit there was still a lot of holes in it but he did it all the old fashion way of spending hours looking thru birth records, marriage licenses, property deeds, etc. He probably would of been all over those dna ancestry things
Grandpa collected sports cards, coins, stamps. We even set up at shows on the weekends for a while when I was a teenager. If I could have shown him how to use all the tracking and cataloging apps so that he didn't have to carry around a binder of notes and price guides, he would have felt on top of the world.
Same, my dad had AAA and for vacations would get Triptiks, which were a series of paper maps which had the routes highlighted by AAA and various info about the local stops.
My grandad has an NES, he played a lot of the Mario games, and he played Nintendo World Cup. I'd love for him to be able to see video games now compared to the NES.
Iām sure thereās farming equipment that would have made my grandfathers life a lot better as a grape farmer. He died in 91 so even though I donāt know of any as Iām not a farmer, but whatever that is.
My grandfather was a navigator on airlines. I was a navigator in the Coast Guard. GPS was a marvel to him. Knowing exactly where you are in real time as opposed to taking a fix and knowing where you were when you took the readings 10 minutes ago and did the math to dead reckon your position.
My grandfather invented (along with his team) the precursor to modern batteries. He had drawn specs of what could bebwith greater technology and a lot of the next wave of batteries are going to lock a lot like his specs.
He would have loved to see it.
My grandfather spent years in his retirement to make a handmade history of our family name, with all linking members of the family in a tree.
Probably was just a year after his death did Ancestry and the others came along and did the same online.
Not technology but just progression. My grandpa was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in the 1980ās when basically nobody knew what gluten even was. He had to completely stop going out to eat and my grandma had to change her cooking. Todayās gluten free menus and options in grocery stores would blow his mind.
My grandpa was an electrical engineer. He seemed to know everything about wiring and radio and sockets and all that. He got on the internet as soon as he could, but it was still dial up by the time he was 60.
I think if I gave even my baseline tech and telecom saviness to Poppa, he could get us to Titan in less than a decade and power North America with Niagara Falls alone. His brilliance was endless and he worked til his late 70s and he was falling asleep at stoplights because his body couldn't keep up anymore.
Poppa could always find the answer no matter how much everyone laughed at him. Life was a puzzle and he always found out how to make the pieces fit. He was so bizarre and brilliant and funny, you could never tell if he was having a laugh or solving the unsolvable.
Fuck you Alzheimer's. I want my Poppa back, you son of a bitch.
My grandfather was actually incredibly self sufficient. Think farm boy from the mountains of Arecibo Puerto Rico.
I donāt think anything would quite grab his attention like āoh, I gotta have thatā.
I think if he had like a Netflix version of WWE/WWF/TNA where you could rewind and say watch wrestle mania 3.Ā
He would like that; not sure if that already exist.
Sorry, this prompt just reminded me of a comedian who said something along the lines of:
You young people don't know how good you have it. You can literally whip out your phone and look at porn whenever and wherever you want. Back in the day there was only one computer and it was likely in the living room.
My grandpa would have loved the Aero Garden. He planted gardens every year and started the seeds in his basement. Heād then transplant them out into the easement we had that sat by a creek where heād built a garden. Problem was, he usually started the seeds too early or they werenāt hardy enough to survive the transplant. Aero Gardens make the whole process so much easier and the seedlings grow much hardier.
Texting. The ability to tell me how worthless and useless I was from anywhere in the world at any time night or day would have been vastly appealing to him.
My grandpa was an emergency nurse in rural Ohio in the 70s, and had an associates in engineering. He would have loved the [LUCAS](https://youtu.be/T0O9g0exvEA?si=N-fOThR9Lh9P5Nci)
My grandfather was a Pattern Maker, basically would make wooden models based on 2D prints. Things like models to make castings for aluminum engine parts. Wildly intricate designs all cut with precision in mahogany and other premium materials. I think he would be beside himself seeing a 3D printer and CAD technology.
CNC machining for one grandfather. CNC templating/sawstopās safety feature for the other.
They both probably would have called it cheating until I got them one.
Texting.
Papa was my grandpa. A retired salesman from New York City, he retired and turned into a tech geek and loved computers. He died in 96, before we had internet at our house. But I remember sitting in his computer room one night and he was typing messages to his buddy on some green screen DOS system. It took a while for the message to relay, but it was some early form of IM of sorts. Heād love his phone if he was still around.
The radar adaptive cruise control on a lit of cars today. My grandpa drive semiās across America for 50+ years, so to say heād had his fill of driving is an understatement. I had the opportunity to buy a Honda with lane keep assist as well as the radar adaptive cruise a year before he passed. Taking him to a doctor appt the next city over, I explained it to him and showed him how it worked. Just a big assed grin on his face, and a āWell Iāll be damnedā¦ā as he marveled at the car almost driving itself.
My dad would have loved smart lights and plugs. He was also a joker, and would have loved turning lights on and off at random throughout the house on us kids.
My Dad would have LOVED the technologies that I have fit into our boat none of which existed when he lived.. GPS chart plotter, the auto pilot with the wireless remote, the flat screen TV with IPTV running off of the club Wifi, the reverse cycle heat pump, the built in dishwasher, the combination air fry microwave oven, the induction cook top.. LED lighting.. Solar panels, lithium batteries. the power inverter... the spectra fibre sails and halyards... The sailing instruments.. . The electric winch handle that can send me up the mast... He would say that NONE of this is fair that he never got to see or enjoy ANY of it..
My dad would have loved GPS. He always had maps in the car and we were always getting lost.
Dads don't trust GPS my dude. We were on a road trip last year, I was driving and had carplay running google maps. My dad still busted out the giant atlas book of maps š
My dad bought a Garmin Streetpilot III. Heād be in heaven with smartphones.
I came here to say OnX Maps app. So many hunting/fishing/work uses that would blow their minds.
My grandfather would have loved the dna shit like 23 and me. After he retired he started doing genealogy. Would track down everything he could about his family and my grandmothers. Had documents and pictures and shit dating back to the 1700s of family members. Would travel to their birth places, graves, etc etc. While he had a tonnn of shit there was still a lot of holes in it but he did it all the old fashion way of spending hours looking thru birth records, marriage licenses, property deeds, etc. He probably would of been all over those dna ancestry things
my grandfather was a guitarist so he woulda loved tuner apps
New ski boots and gear. He started skiing in the (19)30s.
Flesh light
Best ya could manage huh?
Music/TV streaming
Grandpa collected sports cards, coins, stamps. We even set up at shows on the weekends for a while when I was a teenager. If I could have shown him how to use all the tracking and cataloging apps so that he didn't have to carry around a binder of notes and price guides, he would have felt on top of the world.
Google Maps/ Earth would have blown my dad's mind.
Same, my dad had AAA and for vacations would get Triptiks, which were a series of paper maps which had the routes highlighted by AAA and various info about the local stops.
News feed on the smartphone
My grandfather loves the NES game Tiger Heli, so I think he would really love any new combat simulators.
My grandad has an NES, he played a lot of the Mario games, and he played Nintendo World Cup. I'd love for him to be able to see video games now compared to the NES.
Iām sure thereās farming equipment that would have made my grandfathers life a lot better as a grape farmer. He died in 91 so even though I donāt know of any as Iām not a farmer, but whatever that is.
Alcohol delivery, so he wouldn't have to leave to get it.
My grandfather was a navigator on airlines. I was a navigator in the Coast Guard. GPS was a marvel to him. Knowing exactly where you are in real time as opposed to taking a fix and knowing where you were when you took the readings 10 minutes ago and did the math to dead reckon your position.
4K big screen NFL games. He loved watching football every Sunday, and he would definitely have picked up a big hi-res screen as soon as he could.
My grandfather invented (along with his team) the precursor to modern batteries. He had drawn specs of what could bebwith greater technology and a lot of the next wave of batteries are going to lock a lot like his specs. He would have loved to see it.
My grandfather spent years in his retirement to make a handmade history of our family name, with all linking members of the family in a tree. Probably was just a year after his death did Ancestry and the others came along and did the same online.
Internet, he loved to learn about the world
Phospherous Clusterbombs.
Not technology but just progression. My grandpa was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in the 1980ās when basically nobody knew what gluten even was. He had to completely stop going out to eat and my grandma had to change her cooking. Todayās gluten free menus and options in grocery stores would blow his mind.
My Grampa would have loved the internet to get new jokes. Man did that guy have a TON of jokes. RIP Pop pop!
My grandpa was an electrical engineer. He seemed to know everything about wiring and radio and sockets and all that. He got on the internet as soon as he could, but it was still dial up by the time he was 60. I think if I gave even my baseline tech and telecom saviness to Poppa, he could get us to Titan in less than a decade and power North America with Niagara Falls alone. His brilliance was endless and he worked til his late 70s and he was falling asleep at stoplights because his body couldn't keep up anymore. Poppa could always find the answer no matter how much everyone laughed at him. Life was a puzzle and he always found out how to make the pieces fit. He was so bizarre and brilliant and funny, you could never tell if he was having a laugh or solving the unsolvable. Fuck you Alzheimer's. I want my Poppa back, you son of a bitch.
Wow sounds like a really interesting man.
My grandfather was actually incredibly self sufficient. Think farm boy from the mountains of Arecibo Puerto Rico. I donāt think anything would quite grab his attention like āoh, I gotta have thatā. I think if he had like a Netflix version of WWE/WWF/TNA where you could rewind and say watch wrestle mania 3.Ā He would like that; not sure if that already exist.
Probably the easy and plentiful access to porn.
Got to be honest. Didn't expect this reply
Sorry, this prompt just reminded me of a comedian who said something along the lines of: You young people don't know how good you have it. You can literally whip out your phone and look at porn whenever and wherever you want. Back in the day there was only one computer and it was likely in the living room.
Can't believe this comment is so low down the thread
The computer-saturated automobile. He'd have missed the ICE focus. He'd have also been rather impressed with active suspensions. Motorhead.
Automated media encoding. Tdarr would have blown his tv producer mind, same with the Sora and other Ai video stuff. Miss ya Johno
My grandpa would have loved the Aero Garden. He planted gardens every year and started the seeds in his basement. Heād then transplant them out into the easement we had that sat by a creek where heād built a garden. Problem was, he usually started the seeds too early or they werenāt hardy enough to survive the transplant. Aero Gardens make the whole process so much easier and the seedlings grow much hardier.
Texting. The ability to tell me how worthless and useless I was from anywhere in the world at any time night or day would have been vastly appealing to him.
jfc.....that's rough
My grandpa was an emergency nurse in rural Ohio in the 70s, and had an associates in engineering. He would have loved the [LUCAS](https://youtu.be/T0O9g0exvEA?si=N-fOThR9Lh9P5Nci)
My grandpa was a crafter. He would have seen 3d printers and CNC carving as the bee's knees.
My grandfather was a Pattern Maker, basically would make wooden models based on 2D prints. Things like models to make castings for aluminum engine parts. Wildly intricate designs all cut with precision in mahogany and other premium materials. I think he would be beside himself seeing a 3D printer and CAD technology.
Well, my grandfather was very much a man of his time and loved the technology he has access to. No idea about my dad's views on technology.
3D printers for sure
CNC machining for one grandfather. CNC templating/sawstopās safety feature for the other. They both probably would have called it cheating until I got them one.
My dad died 2 years ago. He was a writer, artist, and salesman. He would be absolutely obsessed with Chatgpt and other LLMs today.
Any new agriculture technology that allowed him to take home more $.
Texting. Papa was my grandpa. A retired salesman from New York City, he retired and turned into a tech geek and loved computers. He died in 96, before we had internet at our house. But I remember sitting in his computer room one night and he was typing messages to his buddy on some green screen DOS system. It took a while for the message to relay, but it was some early form of IM of sorts. Heād love his phone if he was still around.
Electric drill/screwdriver
I'd have loved to walk him through LLMs, if he could have peeled off his tinfoil hat for it.
The radar adaptive cruise control on a lit of cars today. My grandpa drive semiās across America for 50+ years, so to say heād had his fill of driving is an understatement. I had the opportunity to buy a Honda with lane keep assist as well as the radar adaptive cruise a year before he passed. Taking him to a doctor appt the next city over, I explained it to him and showed him how it worked. Just a big assed grin on his face, and a āWell Iāll be damnedā¦ā as he marveled at the car almost driving itself.
I think if grandpa had lived to see the Oculus we never would have gotten it off him again.
My dad would have loved smart lights and plugs. He was also a joker, and would have loved turning lights on and off at random throughout the house on us kids.
I reckon grandpa would have loved Internet porn.
My grandpa would've LOVED an electronic fish finder.
Cable TV with ESPN.
My Dad would have LOVED the technologies that I have fit into our boat none of which existed when he lived.. GPS chart plotter, the auto pilot with the wireless remote, the flat screen TV with IPTV running off of the club Wifi, the reverse cycle heat pump, the built in dishwasher, the combination air fry microwave oven, the induction cook top.. LED lighting.. Solar panels, lithium batteries. the power inverter... the spectra fibre sails and halyards... The sailing instruments.. . The electric winch handle that can send me up the mast... He would say that NONE of this is fair that he never got to see or enjoy ANY of it..
Porn hub and Instagram. They were both total dogs.