What are you currently early adopting?

[FireYourJob]

Not necessarily related to your mmm lifestyle (or it could be).

I'm curious if this is something mmm'rs embrace this type of thing.

[Beric01]

I was an early adopter in consumer electronics. I've found I'm now more in the early/late majority when it comes to products in general these days. A lot of the older stuff just works, and I don't need shiny, new, and untested anymore.

[offbrand]

I like to early adopt new mobile apps and tech products.  There's a site called Product Hunt that showcases quality new products every day and people vote on it. It's cool to get in early on stuff and kind of help shape where they go.

Some new stuff that I'm into lately:
Raspberry Pi A+ - New model out for 20 bucks
Design Rails - Custom generate free logo through machine learning https://designrails.com/
Smart Charge lightbulbs - 4 hours of light after power goes out http://www.smartchargelight.com/

Relating more to mmm:
Stingycoin - Deal site without the junk, create a watch list for holiday shopping http://stingycoin.com/
Betterment - Not too new, but I early adopted before I knew about Vanguard :)

Oh yeah, kickstarter is cool too for finding new products.  Although a lot of time it sucks that they don't exist yet!

[GuitarStv]

Typically the stuff I see in early design phases isn't very good value for money.  Being patient and waiting a bit tends to get you better product, cheaper (or cheaper early product, used).

[swick]

With me it always seems to be food :) I often discover and adopt food trends a year or two or three before they are trends. Seriously I have to pay attention to this and start cashing in!

[BlueMR2]

I was an early adopter in consumer electronics. I've found I'm now more in the early/late majority when it comes to products in general these days. A lot of the older stuff just works, and I don't need shiny, new, and untested anymore.

Same here.  Being an early adopter usually means spending too much for a product that doesn't have the bugs worked out yet.  I grew tired of that a few years back.

[Zikoris]

I've been vegan since before most people knew what it was, so I guess there's that.

[Eric]

I'm planning to early adopt retirement.

[Emilyngh]

Nothing.   I like to let others spend the time investigating all of the options, trying things out, letting the market become saturated enough to drop prices, and then I'll read summaries of all of their collective experiences and consider possibly adopting.

There are already more good ideas out there than I could possibly all implement, I see no need to go out on my own to take all the risk just to stroke an ego of being "early."   Eg., FIRE: thanks so much for everyone else creating all of the blog posts, forum posts, and hashing out all of the specifics.   Now I just have to read and follow.

[seattlecyclone]

I sometimes get some pre-release books to read before anyone else on my block, so I guess there's that.

[GuitarStv]

Smart Charge lightbulbs - 4 hours of light after power goes out http://www.smartchargelight.com/

That's an awesome idea BTW.

[2ndTimer]

It's hard to be an early adopter when you buy everything used.

[Catbert]

I've never been an early adopter of...anything.  I live in a 1920s era home, use a non-smart phone (called a Sidekick, I think), and drive a 14 y.o. car bought 12 years ago. 

[Peony]

Compared with my non-mustachian friends, I early-adopted Ting. Mainstream folks in my area are starting to use it now though. I early-adopted having a nice kitchen design with open shelving rather than cabinets (saved much $$, looks good and as I really cook, it's convenient). I early-adopted Brooklyn (and thank god, because my place there has been paying a good chunk of my bills for the last 15 years). I am early-adopting (compared with mainstream folk) a stance against my kids' overpaying or going into debt for college. I can't believe kids are still competing like crazy people for spots at middling colleges that will leave them in debt for decades. I'm early-adopting a stance that in general, big business is looking for ways to separate me from my money, not ways to provide me with goods and services I actually need or want. I early-abandoned TV.

[socaso]

With me it always seems to be food :) I often discover and adopt food trends a year or two or three before they are trends. Seriously I have to pay attention to this and start cashing in!

+1 although I don't think I had ever considered that until you mentioned it. I always seem to early adopt money saving websites and abandon most of them as being bigger time sucks than money savers.

[themagicman]

Not sure if driving an electric car is still considered early adopting but it could be!

[offbrand]

I'm planning to early adopt retirement.

This is the best answer!

[aspiringnomad]

Smartphone apps (ie: transit apps since I'm not a car owner, bargain hunting apps, financial apps, media apps that free me from TV, sharing economy apps, etc.).

[pzxc]

I pay for netflix, not cable.
I own bitcoins.
I am the only programmer at work with more than 2 monitors (I have 3 in my cube - dunno if that says something about the competence of my coworkers or if I'm just an arrogant prick, but I know how much my productivity would suffer with only 2).
I charge my phone without plugging a cord into it.
I used to smoke, now I vape (e-cig).
I use an online-only bank.

That's all I can think of for now. :)

[P1]

I don't really like paying to be a beta tester. When I do something I want to know it's going to work, and not have a hassle of it not working

[MoneyCat]

It's too expensive to be an early adopter.  Everything I have is years old.  The benefit is that the bugs and problems are generally worked out by the time I buy whatever it is.

[homehandymum]

We're late adopters/luddites really, which has inadvertently led to us early adopting internet TV.

We didn't have a normal TV for years and years, and even now that we have one (bought for gaming console purposes), we don't have an aerial or digital hookup for it.

We just wait to hear of a good show, then access it season at a time, and watch it when convenient for us.

[Roots&Wings]

Currently...nothing.  Previously, I early adopted online banking and online shopping.  Conveniences that let me avoid unnecessary trips I don't enjoy.  And microlending.

Following this to see other ideas.

[MayDay]

My wireless cell phone charger is awesome. I love that thing. Of course now we switched to a prepaid cell service with a scrappy phone that I can't use it with.