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BeBro

King

of the Krauts
Mar 2000
time: 06:22

23-02-2005 16:00

#1

The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

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...according to MobilePC

http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features...100gadgets.html

My favourites are #79 and #71

-Jrabbit

Emperor

of the Electronic Egyptians
Feb 2002
time: 23:22

23-02-2005 18:23

#2

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Very interesting list. Probably overloaded with too many watches, computers, and cameras. The rankings are a mystery, too.

Obviously missing: media like the floppy disc, the audio cassette, the recordable CD. Audio transducers like the microphone and the loudspeaker. Visual media like the motion picture camera and the video camera. The TI handheld calculator changed the lives of engineers forever. There's the crystal radio, the videocassette, the Betamax, the Victrola, the audio tape recorder, the electric guitar, the synthesizer, the lyre, the cymbal, the Roland Space Echo tape delay, the vaccuum tube. the printing press, the typewriter, the Xerox photocopier, the flatbed scanner, microfiche, the electromagnet, the compass, eyeglasses, contact lenses, sunglasses...

The more I think about it, the more they missed... but I guess that makes it a thought-provoking list.

Ramo

King

Austin, Texas, USA
Oct 1999
time: 23:22

23-02-2005 18:36

#3

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Yep a lot of things missing. And the first Apple Powerbook plus two other laptop models beats the phone?

quote:
The TI handheld calculator changed the lives of engineers forever.

Shouldn't that be HP?

-Jrabbit

Emperor

of the Electronic Egyptians
Feb 2002
time: 23:22

23-02-2005 18:43

#4

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You might be right about HP vs TI on the early engineer calcs. All I know is that people came running from all over campus when the first one appeared in Champaign, fall of 1971.

Looking at their rules, I had to modify the list, but I did send them a submission.

Ramo

King

Austin, Texas, USA
Oct 1999
time: 23:22

23-02-2005 19:12

#5

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I have no idea really, it's just that older engineers all seem to love RPN, and have antique HP calculators.

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Jan 1970
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23-02-2005 19:34

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#6

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While HP did come out with the first "scientific" hand held calculator... TI came out with the first programmable scientific hand held calculator.

The Mad Monk

Emperor

of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:22

23-02-2005 19:45

#7

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I suppose it depends on how you define gadgets.

Cell Phones and Potato Peelers are both gadgets. A laptop isn't.

gunkulator

Prince

Feb 2003
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 20:23

#8

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Too many laptops on that list.

The iPod higher than the telephone?!?!?

Imran Siddiqui

Deity

The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 20:23

#9

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quote:
Originally posted by -Jrabbit
You might be right about HP vs TI on the early engineer calcs. All I know is that people came running from all over campus when the first one appeared in Champaign, fall of 1971.

Looking at their rules, I had to modify the list, but I did send them a submission.

HP Calculator is on the list. Check out #15.

dejon

King

Sep 2002
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 20:44

#10

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I can't believe they left off the Bumper Dumper!

Tattila the Hun

Prince

Tornio
Oct 2002
time: 07:22

23-02-2005 21:04

#11

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What, no Gameboy?

dejon

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Sep 2002
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 21:06

#12

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quote:
Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
What, no Gameboy?

Game Boy is #25 (on page 4).

Harry Tuttle

Prince

of the Hoople Heads
Mar 2003
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 21:20

#13

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They left off the Ronco Pocket Fisherman! Jackasses!

Kuciwalker

Emperor

of Schmooism
Feb 2001
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 21:31

#14

Put an end to popups!

There's too much BS on that list.

-Jrabbit

Emperor

of the Electronic Egyptians
Feb 2002
time: 23:22

23-02-2005 21:43

#15

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The Popeil Pocket Fisherman IS on the list.

Harry Tuttle

Prince

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Mar 2003
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 21:52

#16

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quote:
Originally posted by -Jrabbit
The Popeil Pocket Fisherman IS on the list.

Where?

Harry Tuttle

Prince

of the Hoople Heads
Mar 2003
time: 00:22

23-02-2005 21:52

#17

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Oh, #92...

-Jrabbit

Emperor

of the Electronic Egyptians
Feb 2002
time: 23:22

23-02-2005 21:56

#18

Suffering from ads?

They actually gave it a fairly glowing write-up.

Combat Ingrid

Chieftain

Satan's Majestic Empire
Nov 2001
time: 06:22

23-02-2005 22:55

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#80:

quote:
Spurred by the space race, the Fisher company spent years inventing a pen that could write upside down, underwater, and in zero gravity. What did the Russians equip their cosmonauts with? Pencils.

Shogun Gunner

Emperor

Potomac Falls, Virginia
Oct 2000
time: 00:22

24-02-2005 00:19

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A Christmas gift from my parents on Christmas. I was thrilled. It's number 65 on the list.

Attachment: mattel-football2.jpg
This has been downloaded 72 time(s).

Dis

Emperor

Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
time: 21:22

24-02-2005 00:52

#21

Got spare money?

#94 definately. I love electric razors. I couldn't live without one . I recently went over a week without shaving though. I couldn't stand it. Finally I gave in and shaved. facial hair sucks.

rubik's cube I guess I should have realized that wasn't an american invention. I never knew.

#77 lite-brite. I had one of those. I then realized I had no artistic talent

I remember #65. that seemed to be the crowing achievement in video games.

#52 Yeah I used to walk around with a boom box on my shoulder. I must have looked like an idiot.

and #50 really proved I had no artistic ability. I couldn't draw anything on that.

#46 speak and spell!! I had one of those!. It bored me to death though.

And #9. Who hasn't played one of those? Ours came with Combat packaged with it.

and of corse #3. Many Sony entries on this list. Sony was one inventive company. They still are.

Apple as #1

Dis

Emperor

Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
time: 21:22

24-02-2005 00:53

#22

Suffering from ads?

quote:
Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Very interesting list. Probably overloaded with too many watches, computers, and cameras. The rankings are a mystery, too.

Obviously missing: media like the floppy disc, the audio cassette, the recordable CD. Audio transducers like the microphone and the loudspeaker. Visual media like the motion picture camera and the video camera. The TI handheld calculator changed the lives of engineers forever. There's the crystal radio, the videocassette, the Betamax, the Victrola, the audio tape recorder, the electric guitar, the synthesizer, the lyre, the cymbal, the Roland Space Echo tape delay, the vaccuum tube. the printing press, the typewriter, the Xerox photocopier, the flatbed scanner, microfiche, the electromagnet, the compass, eyeglasses, contact lenses, sunglasses...

The more I think about it, the more they missed... but I guess that makes it a thought-provoking list.

some of those are on the list. Though the calculater is listed as an HP, not a TI.

I'm a TI man myself.

Kuciwalker

Emperor

of Schmooism
Feb 2001
time: 00:22

24-02-2005 00:57

#23

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TI-89

nostromo

Prince

Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
time: 00:22

24-02-2005 01:00

#24

Remove this text

What? No sex toys?

-Jrabbit

Emperor

of the Electronic Egyptians
Feb 2002
time: 23:22

24-02-2005 01:22

#25

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Moving parts required for eligibility...

Shogun Gunner

Emperor

Potomac Falls, Virginia
Oct 2000
time: 00:22

24-02-2005 01:48

#26

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I'm pretty sure sex toys have moving parts.

Dis

Emperor

Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
time: 21:22

24-02-2005 01:50

#27

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quote:
Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
I'm pretty sure sex toys have moving parts.

at least the vibrating ones do. something causes them to vibrate.