Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 22, 2005 @05:43AM from the com'on-rubiks-cube dept.

akintayo writes "Mobile PC released its list of the top 100 gadgets of all time. The number one gadget was the Apple Powerbook 100. And the list does include some older gadgets, most notably the Abacus at #60. The BBC also has an article on the list."

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#79 is the best one by nizo · 2005-02-22 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

I prefer #79 (TASER X26, 2003) If you have one of these you can probably eventually get everything else on the list.

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swingline stapler by oscast · 2005-02-22 05:45 · Score: 4, Funny

personally, I would have opted for the red swingline stapler.
1. Re:swingline stapler by sgant · 2005-02-22 06:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  My top gadgets? Yeah yeah, it's a cliche now, but I still can't live without these:
  
  1. Duct Tape - nuff said
  2. WD-40
  3. A Sharpie, black
  4. slot-head and phillips head screwdriver
  
  Drop me on an island and I'll build an empire!
  
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Top Gadgets? by ackthpt · 2005-02-22 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I thought this looked an awful lot like a geeks Christmas list...
d33r 54nt4, 1 b33n v3ry 1337 th15 y34r..

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1. Re:Top Gadgets? by EnronHaliburton2004 · 2005-02-22 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  d33r 54nt4, 1 b33n v3ry 1337 th15 y34r..
  
  Dear Kid,
  
  There will be no presents for you until you learn how to use a fucking keyboard, you dimwit.
  
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Jeez, Slashdotted already... by aendeuryu · 2005-02-22 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

They might as well be running their webserver on #50...

This might get modded funny if people could actually get to the site and figure out which one #50 is.
Well! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-22 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

The BBC also has an article on the list.
Congratulations to the BBC for making the gadets list!
could only read 9 by frovingslosh · 2005-02-22 05:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Any list that includes the POPEIL POCKET FISHERMAN in a list of greates gadgets isn't worth reading any further.

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What - no Rabbit? by The+Steely+Dan · 2005-02-22 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

My SO swears by hers!
Forgot the P-P-P-Powerbook! by Evil+W1zard · 2005-02-22 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Now that is a gadget that deserves some recognition in the top 100! http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/

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Re:Cosmonaut use of pencil myth yet again by the+pickle · 2005-02-22 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny

If the Soviet cosmonauts thought pencil lead actually contained "metal lead particles," it's no wonder they lost the Cold War...

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Re:Abacus by brilinux · 2005-02-22 06:03 · Score: 4, Funny

But I'd consider an abacus to be a pretty damned effective mobile computing device
When I was a boy, our abaci took up an entire wall, and we had to move the stones with donkeys, ropes, and pullies. Mobile computing my ass!
Re:When I was a boy... by TimeTraveler1884 · 2005-02-22 06:22 · Score: 4, Funny

When I was a boy, the Greeks attacked and killed the Latins only to steal thier words.
Re:Portable massagers by morzel · 2005-02-22 06:45 · Score: 4, Funny

I can think of at least one "portable device" that many women would think is THE best invention ever...
The credit card?

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Re:Abacus by Have+Blue · 2005-02-22 06:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I agree that my abacus has a very intuitive interface and gets awesome battery life, but it seems to be taking a long time to compile a kernel. Anyone have tips for optimizing this?
Re:Centuries? Try millenia! by Nefarious+Wheel · 2005-02-22 07:55 · Score: 4, Funny

I'd say the oldest calculating machine, and most used even today, can be found at the end of your arm.
And the oldest digital calculator too.

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