PCWorld Ranks the Top 50 Gadgets
PCWorld has published their take on the 50 greatest gadgets of the past 50 years. They rated each gadget on its usefulness, design, degree of innovation, and influence on subsequent gadgets, as well as their "cool factor." The list features two Jeff Hawkins originals. The Pilot 1000 ranks an impressive 4th (behind the walkman, iPod and Tivo), and the Handspring Treo 600 comes in at 20th.
Thanks to Gaurav and Jeff Schnabel for the tip.
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RE: One item seems really out of place.
And there's not a single GPS on the list, anywhere. How, um, lost.
Of course, they've left out lots of little things that influence you indirectly, like all the electronics that make today's music possible, or the entire history of component sound systems. What, not a single boom box?
The Regency, by the way, barely, doesn't fit the 50 year window.
and how did they manage to completely leave out HP's perfecting the ink jet printer?
Marty Fouts
I survived PalmSource '05
RE: One item seems really out of place.
But what I do find cool is that nowadays, either the Treo 600 or the 650 manages to find a spot on almost every list. So I hesitate to write them off as completely useless... ;)
Tim Carroll
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(and big Treo fan)
RE: One item seems really out of place.
RE: One item seems really out of place.
RAZR and Ipod (plus a few others) seem artificially high in the list. Marketing hype.
RE: One item seems really out of place.
The list is a good start but needs work...
Agreed, too many phones. Should have been another TI or HP calculator in the bunch.
Omitting the Mattel handheld LED games but including the Jakks Pacific TV Games, #49, is completely asinine. The Mattel games took over the world in the seventies, while I had never heard of Jakks before which is just implementing old games again.
And what about a talking Boogie Bass? Based on sheer numbers sold, the whole talking gag gift sector should have had a representative.
Razr and not StarTac?
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One item seems really out of place.
Heck, even the Sanyo SCP-5300 (#30) was the first phone in the US to have a camera. I'd say that trumps the RAZR right there.