The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years

[tuvor]

We're living in the golden age of the gadget. Don't believe it? Check your pockets. Odds are you're carrying a portable music player, an electronic organizer, a keychain-size storage device, a digital camera, or a cell phone that combines some or all of these functions. And you'd probably be hard-pressed to live without them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051224/tc_pcworld/123950

This reminds me...anyone looking to purchase a Zip drive complete with "the click of death"?

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I feel so technologically inadequate after reading that

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. *checks pockets*

Odds are you're carrying a portable music player

Nope.

an electronic organizer

Nuh-uh.

a keychain-size storage device

Not. (And it's "keychain-sized.")

a digital camera

It ain't in my pocket, and I just got it yesterday.

or a cell phone that combines some or all of these functions.

It's in my truck. I rarely use it.

And you'd probably be hard-pressed to live without them.

Not even.

[NMMNG]

5. No mp3 player

No keychain sized storage device.

Digicam is at home--certainly not in my pocket.

And I only got the cell phone in September.

Hard pressed to live without them? I got the camera as a gift, and if I hadn't I still wouldn't have it, and the phone I lived without for 37 years before finally breaking down and getting. It's a convenience, but certainly not something I'd die without.


I think the techhies go overboard with this stuff.

[Deja Q]

3. hmmm...

Dildo
condom
sponge
IUD
"the pill"
push-up bra
viagra
Playboy
Playgirl :9
...

Do you really want me to spell out the others? :7
:yoiks:

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

4. The posted above is a paid advertisement by

Sony, Apple IPOD, TIVO, Etc.

All these Greatest Gadgets, buy them and be great as well.
:sarcasm:

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to be 90% of the people who want IPOD's are under the age of 18, and don't know any better that not a lot of people need a portable gadget that can hold 4000 or 40,000 songs whatever it is. They just wanted cause is pushed into their head, I know a 10 year old who's mother bought him an IPOD what's a 10 year old need an IPOD for? Why is an IPOD number 2 anyways, they haven't had that much of an impact on daily life to warrent it, they've only been out what 2 years? Why aren't any vcr's, Home computers, answering machines, laptops, cordless phones, Cell phones, microwaves in the top 5?