Slashdot Asks: What Do You Think Is The Most Influential Gadget Of All Time? (macrumors.com)

TIME has published a list ranking the 50 most influential gadgets of all time, from cameras and TVs to music players, smartphones, and drones. Can you guess what was the number one most influential gadget on the list? That's right, the Apple iPhone. "Apple was the first company to put a truly powerful computer in the pockets of millions when it launched the iPhone in 2007," according to TIME. "The iPhone popularized the mobile app, forever changing how we communicate, play games, shop, work, and complete many everyday tasks."

There's a lot of interesting gadgets on the list that have had a profound impact on mankind in some form or another, for better or worse. Do you agree with TIME's number one choice? What do you think is the most influential gadget of all time?

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[narcc]

Rather than go with "most influential" and to avoid a lot of bickering over "gadget" (by conforming to the most cited criteria here) I'll offer a few items more influential than the iPhone, in no particular order:

• The walkman
• The transistor radio
• The pocket watch
• The slide rule
• The pocket calculator
• The mobile phone
• The consumer GPS receiver
• The microwave oven

I could easily go on. The point, of course, is that the iPhone (or any specific smartphone) shouldn't even make the top 10.