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TIME technology editor Peter Ha picks the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present ---- (2010)
Time Magazine ^
| Oct. 25, 2010
| By Peter Ha
Posted on 12/24/2023 8:38:13 AM PST by dennisw
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:38:13 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
Photos of all these Hall of Fame gadgets/ As evaluated in 2010
Bose Noise-Canceling Headphones
Ipod
Amazon Kindle
Nintendo Game Boy
Optical Media
Sony Discman D-50
TiVo (remember that!)
and so on......
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:43:26 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Be positive. Eveo day is another day.)
To: dennisw
The Kindle?
Is looking at a Kindle in your hand so different from looking at the paperback in your hand?
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:45:23 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: dennisw
Two of the most influential inventions in my opinion are the DVD player and the Blu-Ray player.
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:46:47 AM PST
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who youâÂÂll know me as)
To: dennisw
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:49:21 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: dennisw
Not a gadget, but the circular saw was a great invention. Same for the nail gun. I see roofers go a mile a minute with nail guns.
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:54:08 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Be positive. Eveo day is another day.)
To: dennisw
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:54:34 AM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: ansel12
Is looking at a Kindle in your hand so different from looking at the paperback in your hand? Yes, it most certainly is when you're on an extended trip away from home and don't want to or can't carry a dozen paperbacks.
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posted on
12/24/2023 8:58:10 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: dennisw
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:00:46 AM PST
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
To: dennisw
feel free to pick your own No. 1.Toilet paper. Without it, well..
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:02:37 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(This Is The Way)
To: dennisw
the home phone, consumer radio, TV, and personal computer to name a few that should top the list.
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:07:44 AM PST
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: No name given
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:08:14 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: Yo-Yo
I don’t have a Kindle but I have 25,460 Kindle books in my library that I can read on the computer.
While a Kindle can be convenient I don’t see it as among the greatest and most influential changes, to me it is more like a Bic lighter replacing matches, nice but not life-changing like the microwave or smartphone (which I don’t use).
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:11:23 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: ansel12
Remember the Kindle can store hundreds of books. And if you’re into say Neal Stephenson or Diana Gabaldon or folks like that those books get a LOT lighter on a Kindle.
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:12:12 AM PST
by
discostu
(like a dog being shown a card trick)
To: Hot Tabasco
Modern toilets will not flush a corncob.
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:12:21 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: OrioleFan
Ronco rotisserie oven.
Set it and forget it!
To: sten
The home phone and commercial radio predate 1923.
I guess the TV makes it though.
Biden informs us that “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed.”
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:20:28 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: dennisw
Not one of those are really necessary for society nor do they really help society.
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:21:01 AM PST
by
ealgeone
To: discostu
For you Kindle users, is 25,460 Kindle books a lot for the typical Kindle person?
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:22:54 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: dennisw
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posted on
12/24/2023 9:23:14 AM PST
by
Jumpmaster
(U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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