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Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are you so mean to your karma, what did it ever do to you???? BTW go read the real first post. I found the Insightful mod very amusing :-)

  2. Re:First post! by eno2001 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am obsessed with the whole cycle of creation and destruction. I am a fan of the movie Donnie Darko. I spend Tuesdays tearing down my karma here and there and the rest of the week nursing it back to health.

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  3. Cu8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fAre you GAY on my Pentium Pro mistake 0f electing FreeBSD used to

  4. one thing about the swiss army knife.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can any of you out there tell me of a war the swiss have been involved in, let alone won?

    Swiss Army? What the article doesn't tell you was that the first production run of these knives was only 12, and that was enough for the whole swiss army, plus a couple of spares...