The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years ....do you agree?

Any that you think they overlooked?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/2005...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-

While not overly popular, the mini-disc recorder/player (Sony) is one
fanatastic gadget. It would be in my top 50 for sure.

I didn't see clip-in pedals or aerobars.

They rank right up near the top with me.

Lewis

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Any that you think they overlooked?

I doubt they polled any women - otherwise I would expect to see the BOB
(Battery Operated Boyfriend).

Ed

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Any that you think they overlooked?

I doubt they polled any women - otherwise I would expect to see the BOB
(Battery Operated Boyfriend).

Ed


The list is of course limited to nerdy gadgets--"we considered only those
items whose digital descendants are covered in PC World"

Than again, I may have missed the vibrator issue...

-Has

On 25 Dec 2005 08:28:42 -0800, "Too_Many_Tools"
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The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years ....do you agree?

Any that you think they overlooked?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/2005...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-

I'd have to take issue with the choice of Microsoft Intellimouse
Explorer (1999). The first optical mice were available at least 15
years (?) before, albeit with a metal pad and hefty price tag. I'm
still using a serial Mouse Systems mouse of that era. I also recall
paying about AU$40 for a Taiwanese serial optical mouse in 1990. I
can't understand why PC World believes that MS's product is "the first
mainstream optical mouse".

I'd also have given an award to the Casio and Sharp organisers of the
early 90's.

- Franc Zabkar
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Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

I'd have to take issue with the choice of Microsoft Intellimouse
Explorer (1999). The first optical mice were available at least 15
years (?) before, albeit with a metal pad and hefty price tag. I'm
still using a serial Mouse Systems mouse of that era. I also recall
paying about AU$40 for a Taiwanese serial optical mouse in 1990. I
can't understand why PC World believes that MS's product is "the first
mainstream optical mouse".



I had one of those optical mice with the metal pad, it worked well at
the time but the modern optical mice are infinitely better. They provide
the advantages of optical along with those of mechanical mice for the
best of both worlds. I was never fond of the Intellimouse Explorer
ergonomic design, in fact I didn't like it at all, but the standard
Intellimouse optical that was offered for a short time, as well as the
Logitech models are quite good.

The first in dash CD player should be on the list.

Also the first radar detector.

I'd nominate the hp 95LX as the first pocket computer, even before the
Newton.

I'd also put the Timex Ironman on the list. This little simple
multifunction watch is the best selling "computer" ever produced. I
own three including the one I'm wearing now which is 20 years old and
predates "Indiglo."

50 years is a long time. How about the Bullova Accutron "tuning fork"
watch.

No GPS? Surely I'd put the Garmin eTrex series on the list, or the
Gecko.

Bicycle computers.

Leatherman multi-tools.

That list is too far weighted towards audio and not broad enough in
scope.

Barry in Wyoming wrote:

I'd nominate the hp 95LX as the first pocket computer, even before the
Newton.


I disagree. Almost twenty years before (1974) that they had the HP-65.
It even had a magnetic card writer/reader for saving data or programs.

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HP introduces the first minicomputer to be based on 4K dynamic random
access memory chips (DRAM) instead of magnetic cores.

The world's first programmable pocket calculator, the HP-65, is
introduced at $795. Its programmability will later lead some to call it
the world's first handheld computer.

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/his.../hist_70s.html
====================================


I don't like the direction the company has taken. My experiences with
some of their printers have soured me on the 'new' HP. I loved their
products and philosophy until the end of the HP 41 era. They've turned
into just another mass marketer, with all the cheap plastic trappings
that accompany that mindset. .


mike