Posted on 12/15/2009 8:12:44 AM PST by MNDude
What does everyone think was the best new gadget to come out in the past decade?
Hope N’Change™
The snuggie.
Ditto.
GPS gets my vote too. Honorable mention to the all-in-one printer/scanner/faxer/copier.
Easy! The Taurus Judge. :)
Wide-mouth beercans.
USB Flash Drive would get my vote with the iPhone coming in a close second.
“Available on the market” and “widely adopted” are usually not synonymous so I’ll go with “widely adopted.”
WiFi
iPod
Flash drives
Consumer level GPS with road maps, 3D view and turn by turn directions. Yes, I know that GPS has been around much longer, but tended to be either fairly simple devices that just gave coordinates, or expensive devices intended for marine use or aviation.
True, many people have become overdependent on them, following their directions blindly, but they can be a real godsend when trying to find someplace that you’ve never been before, without having to keep a stack of maps on hand.
the Bump-It... it gives hair lift and volume... or how about the Buxton Travel Purse... hahaha!
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DVR not sure if you would consider that a gadget or not. Other choices, Ipod/Iphone, GPS.
Not a device per se, but the advent of cheap mass storage.
At the start of 2000, hard drives in computers were still measured in megabytes. Only high end computers had more than a 1 gig drive.
Today we talk in terabytes when we talk drive space.
Add to that the advent of large electronic storage devices like SD cards that can hold 8, 16, 32, 64 gb+ in a device the size of your fingernail.
Ipods, GPSs, smartphones, mobile computing, digital photography/film are only possible at today’s level because mass storage has become so cheap.
I dunno, but whatever it is, Algore invented it, Bill Clinton tried to have sex with it, and Obama now controls the company that makes it.
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