I remember when I was like 7, my father bought a new fangled device called a VCR, it was top loading and had a 20ft wired remote control, we thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then he got a camcorder where he actually had to "wear" the VCR over his shoulder that was seperate from the actual camera. I also remember back in 88 I got a portable CD player, I remember that my grandmother thought that the CD's were actually some kind of wierd mirror, as a matter of fact I think she still does. These are my earliest memories of "state-of-the-art" electronics.