Ten Gadgets That Defined the Decade

Corpuscavernosa writes "As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there's really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It's arguable that if this wasn't the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets — one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years time, gadgets have touched almost every aspect of our daily lives, and personal technology has come into its own in a way never before seen. It's a decade that's been marked the ubiquity of the internet, the downfall of the desktop, and the series finale of Friends, but we've boiled it down to the ten devices we've loved the most and worked the hardest over the past ten years. We even had some of our friends in the tech community chime in with their picks on what they thought was the gadget or tech of the decade."

Comments

The iPod?

[Anonymous Coward]

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Re:360?

[TheLink]

The Red Ring of Death may still be remembered well into the next decade.

IMO that's about the most memorable and defining thing about the xbox 360 ;).

FWIW, "exploding" batteries from various gadgets were rather more common in this decade than previous decades.