Top 100 Gadgets of all times
 

Mobile PC Mag has a list of the top 100 gadgets of all time.

I've owned 26 of them. Can anyone beat that record?

Let's see . . .

20 if you don't interpret the list strictly (e.g., I've had a VCR, but not the model they listed).

Biggest revelation: My gadget days seem to have ended around the same time as my Lite Brite days. Oh, and a MasterLock is a "gadget." Didn't know that.

Hard to rate. For example, is "telephone" restricted to the 1976 model or does any telephone count? I played with lots of those things and friends' houses, but my family didn't believe in computers as entertainment (they're TOOLS! for WORK!) so no Atari for us. :( Although we did have the Radio Shack knock-off of Pong. I'm still bitter that my brother got a LightBrite (a gift from a non-family member) and I didn't. They were so cool! But they didn't pass the repeatability test so no dice. Depending on what counts, I had about 15 (including an abacus!)

Yeah, counting variations rather than the original, I think I'm between 25 and 30. If we stick to original, more like 10-15 (I stopped really counting because of the confusion of what counts).

What we really need is a gadget that can count the gadgets for us...

Yeah, it's tough to count. If one could count non-originals of the same item, I was up to about 60% (I didn't finish the list either).

And although you may think I am joking, I am very serious when I say that the vibrator (AKA "personal massager) should be in the top 20 at least. Specifically, the Hitachi "Magic Wand"

37...but it is not using exactly the same models for all...I was shocked to see my 1979 Sony Walkman and my rootbeer colored Motorola Bravo pager :eek:

Ditto! I was like, hey!!! That's even the color I had!!! :D

Oooh. Speak and Spell. I used to love that - even if I couldn't always understand it.

Ahhh yes, it was always fun having it say things like: "May I do you from behind?".

Good times to be sure.

I, myself, am not gadgety in the slightest, but my family was, especially my dad and my ex-military grandpas. My dad is still very gadgety.....he's got three Gameboys and lives for the gadgets on ebay. Here's what we've owned (still own.....I've got a Bedazzler, you bet your bootie!!!):

100. NSI BEDAZZLER, 1970s
98. PEZ DISPENSER
97. MATTEL INTELLIVISION
94. SCHICK ELECTRIC RAZOR (got a lady schick for Christmas in 8th grade!)
92. POPEIL POCKET FISHERMAN (from my grandpa!)
90. MAELZEL METRONOME
89. RUBIK'S CUBE
88. BLACK & DECKER DUSTBUSTER
86. TAMAGOTCHI
85. HOHNER HARMONICA (Cass plays hers EVERY day..ugh!)
ALLIANCE GENIE GARAGE DOOR OPENER, 1954
80. FISHER SPACE PEN (again, from my grandpa)
77. HASBRO LITE-BRITE
75. LASER POINTER
72. MASTER LOCK PADLOCK
71. TYCO TOYS TICKLE ME ELMO
70. ATARI PONG C-100
69. CUISINART FOOD PROCESSOR
68. NOKIA 5100 SERIES CELL PHONE :rolleyes: I had a Mickey mouse cover
67. LEATHERMAN PST (It's a rule in Oregon...you must own 7 of these)
64. U.S. ARMY P-38 CAN OPENER (OMG--we had one of these in every room when I was little!!!)
63. MAGLITE FLASHLIGHT (I remember buying 1 for my dad once)
62. SONY WM-F5 SPORTS WALKMAN (lived in this)
61. MOTOROLA BRAVO NUMERIC PAGER (my dad lived for his)
57. MATTEL MAGIC 8-BALL (I still have one, and a Date Ball, too!)
54. THE CAR ALARM KEY FOB (can't imagine life without it!)
50. ETCH-A-SKETCH (still have one)
48. SONY DIGITAL MAVICA MVC-HD5 (I STILL use my Mavica with the floppies!!! :D)
46. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SPEAK & SPELL (my sis and I still do the voice!)
44. FUZZBUSTER (dad and grandpas lived for it)
40. FALCON DUST-OFF (grew up with this....now we use it for the DVD player)
29. JOSEPH ENTERPRISES THE CLAPPER (hahaha, it's in our White Elephant gift pile in the closet....perhaps I should go plug it in!)
25. NINTENDO GAME BOY, 1989 (my sis and I each got one the year they came out....so my dad could use our Nintendo to play Mario and we could play Tetris!!)
23. TELEPHONE
20. SWISS ARMY KNIFE
9. ATARI 2600
3. SONY WALKMAN (still have it, it weighs five pounds and stopped working about ten years ago, but I could NEVER part with it!)

We had a VCR very early on...way before anyone else we knew had one, but not the one in the article. Our first CD system was a JVC.....I was in jr. high or late elementary school when we got it.

They forgot the microwave! Who could live without a microwave?? :eek:

Bigger than a breadbox, doesn't count.

wouldn't that depend on the size of the breadbox?

It's amazing what you can find pictures of!

I live without a microwave.

I think the only thing our microwave gets used for is as a kitchen timer.

HA! I just read this as Spank and Spell! OMG! I feel so dirty!

[quote speak & spell]Next Spell dirty[/quote]

if we include variations of the original, then I am at 42.

33 if you count the same type

27 (not lying) :D