Posted on 05/03/2016 3:27:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The Tech that forever changed the way we live, work, and play.
Think of the gear you can’t live without: The smartphone you constantly check. The camera that goes with you on every vacation. The TV that serves as a portal to binge-watching and -gaming. Each owes its influence to one model that changed the course of technology for good.
It’s those devices we’re recognizing in this list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time.
Think of the gear you can’t live without: The smartphone you constantly check. The camera that goes with you on every vacation. The TV that serves as a portal to binge-watching and -gaming. Each owes its influence to one model that changed the course of technology for good.
It’s those devices we’re recognizing in this list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time.
Some of these, like Sony’s Walkman, were the first of their kind. Others, such as the iPod, propelled an existing idea into the mainstream. Some were unsuccessful commercially, but influential nonetheless. And a few represent exciting but unproven new concepts (looking at you Oculus Rift).
Rather than rank technologies—writing, electricity, and so on—we chose to rank gadgets, the devices by with consumers let the future creep into their present. The list—which is ordered by influence—was assembled and deliberated on at (extreme) length by TIME’s technology and business editors, writers and reporters. What did we miss?
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The one that makes sliced bread?
No 6 is the only one that predates me. Astounded how many of these I have owned.
Who made up this list?
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None of these save the Victrola is more than 100 years old. I would think the Model T Ford, steamship and locomotive ought to be on the list.
Time Editors:
Planes, er, steamships, trains & automobiles aren’t exactly “gadgets”.
Missing from the list - Kodak Instamatic camera and the TI SR-10, the first pocket calculator with algebraic function.
What is that thing - an iDildo?
None of those come under the definition of "gadget."
gadg·et [ˈɡajət]
NOUN
a small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one:
"a state-of-the-art kitchen with every conceivable gadget"
synonyms: appliance · apparatus · instrument · implement · tool ·
This should be at top of every list.
-PJ
Airplanes should be on the list.
That didn’t catch on because a good percentage of women, and dogs, can hear in the hertz range of that sonic remote, and found it annoying.
Agreed.
Now That is a Keeper, When my EX comes back I’m gonna buy her one!
She has only been gone 8 years so I expect the call any day now.
Great homecoming present!
Uh, add electric to that, and drop the "I" and you've got it.
About five Christmasses ago, I walked into a Walmart near my house. . . As you walked into the entrance, in the line of special sale items, they had a couple of pallates of these in two different styles as "personal relaxing massage devices" on sale as "stocking stuffers" $12.97. . . You couldn't get close to either of the five foot high stacks of the products as people were grabbing several at a time! I heard matrons saying "My daughters are gonna love these!"
The pictures on the boxes showed a lovely model holding the vibrating head of the "personal relaxing massage device" up to her cheek, with a heavenly look on her face. LOL!
By the time I left twenty minutes later, the palattes were empty!
Airplanes are gadgets? Tell that to the Wright brothers.
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