I’ve had the new X3 just a week, so I’m stumbling into new, cool things every day.
The coolest thing thus far is discovering that I can save CDs onto the car’s multimedia drive! I also love the heads up display.
Very cool! What kind of car do you have?
My mum has been taking pictures of her iPad, then emailing me.
It’s the 2017 version of printing a page off the internet and putting it in an envelope.
“Drakaris.”
I used to love driving people around who didn’t know I had heated seats, turning it on, and waiting until they wierdly shifted in their seat and said “What the hell is going on?”
Oh, God, I am so trying that when I’m not at work.
My brain app tells me that you quoted the wrong post!
In 1975 I opened up the phone switch panel in the hallway of my college dorm and was able to place calls on other people’s phones by tapping on the contacts with a headphone jack, then laying the jack across the contacts to hear it ring. Then I could hear it connect, but no way for me to talk.
I have a Dot and wish the wake word could be “Hal.” (One of the little Easter eggs is “Alexa, open the pod bay doors.”)
Oh, man. I could pretend I was Scotty.
My kids had to show me which buttons to push to make my phone take a snapshot of my boarding pass (on the screen). That way it doesn’t matter how bad the connection is in the airport, I still have access to a usable pass.
I guess that counts as something I didn’t know my device could do.
Not my device but an app. I downloaded an app called ereader prestigio which has a function where you can turn an ebook into an audiobook. The app will read the book to you so you can listen over your phone. That is nice, I didn’t know they had that function on ereaders.
I want this! Thanks for sharing. 
My phone (Samsung Note 5) has a pulse oximeter built into the structure of the camera flash.
I found this out when I was sick a few months back and had this vague idea that maybe the fingerprint sensor might allow that feature. I did some searching and found out that yes, but it’s on the flash vs. the home button / fingerprint sensor.
Many phones and tablets incorporate IR Blaster hardware and support. That means that with the appropriate application, your mobile device is a perfectly serviceable (and potentially surreptitious) remote control for your TV, your cable box. etc.
This is a feature that I’ve never seen marketed or even mentioned in manufacturer documentation (Samsung and LG, I’m looking at you).