Since it will be quite awhile before Brendan’s annual basketball pools roll around again you might all enjoying entering WIRED’s Greatest Gadget of All Time contest. You pick from a wide selection of gadgets ranging from an 18th century sextant to the just released Apple iPhone in a bracket style competition. The winner of the competition will walk away with an iPhone of their own. Good luck everyone!
Arrr, that scurvy gizmo was overrrpriced & overrrrrated. Folks felt she didn’t live up to all the advance Hype. Instructions too Complicated plus the blasted thingamajig had Calibration Issues. Hell, I stood in line for hourrrs to get mine at Black Dog Outfitting & Pre-owned Letters of Marque and bedamn but didn’t she run me aground next night off’n Barrrrbados. Arrr.
Good vote. / Going Further back, I’d guess the chipped or flaked stone Cutting Edge was pretty important. / And probably not so long thereafter, evolutionarily speaking, the Spear Point. Without that one the Wheelinventors might never have been around to Invent it.
Okay. How does the AK-47 count as a “gadget?” Is the Hydrogen bomb on here somewhere? Because if the criteria is the ability to kill people, I think the H-bomb wins hands down. It certainly beats the Fuzz Buster.
The iPod is nothing more than a portable hard drive that can play mp3’s. Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPod, but it’s not really that amazing of a gadget any more than a laptop is.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:53:12 pm
“…gadgets ranging from an 18th century sextant…”
Arrr, that scurvy gizmo was overrrpriced & overrrrrated. Folks felt she didn’t live up to all the advance Hype. Instructions too Complicated plus the blasted thingamajig had Calibration Issues. Hell, I stood in line for hourrrs to get mine at Black Dog Outfitting & Pre-owned Letters of Marque and bedamn but didn’t she run me aground next night off’n Barrrrbados. Arrr.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:54:38 pm
My vote for greatest gadget of all time…the wheel.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:09:39 pm
Good vote. / Going Further back, I’d guess the chipped or flaked stone Cutting Edge was pretty important. / And probably not so long thereafter, evolutionarily speaking, the Spear Point. Without that one the Wheelinventors might never have been around to Invent it.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:19:31 pm
Sorry but the wheel isn’t a gadget, its a simple machine
July 25th, 2007 at 7:46:20 pm
Yeah, and so is an inclined plane and a pulley.
In the online bracket, my pick was the TiVo.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:53:21 pm
I had transistor radio
July 25th, 2007 at 10:53:33 pm
Sally Field was the greatest Gidget of all time.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:57:04 pm
The gosh-darned TV remote (any brand - whatever) is the greatest gadget of all time and I didn’t even see it in the list.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:06:46 pm
The Dust Buster? The fucker doesn’t even work!
And how do you pit the Apple II against the Mac? There wouldn’t have been a Mac without the Apple II.
Let’s cut to the chase. The Mattel Electronics Football is THESE greatest gadget of all time. Please.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:08:31 pm
Okay. How does the AK-47 count as a “gadget?” Is the Hydrogen bomb on here somewhere? Because if the criteria is the ability to kill people, I think the H-bomb wins hands down. It certainly beats the Fuzz Buster.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:11:36 pm
“The gosh-darned TV remote (any brand - whatever) is the greatest gadget of all time and I didn’t even see it in the list.”
The Zenith Space Command Remote - the first TV remote ever - is on the list.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:06:16 am
#7 MM Esq. ~ LOL!!! :) Beat That one, Alasdair ;>
July 26th, 2007 at 12:13:06 am
Pencils and erasers.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:18:16 am
UGH, Tivo vs. Ipod, battle for the ages. Can’t….decide.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:03:50 pm
The iPod is nothing more than a portable hard drive that can play mp3’s. Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPod, but it’s not really that amazing of a gadget any more than a laptop is.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:27:48 pm
Yeah, I went with Tivo. I love my Ipod, but I can’t live without tivo anymore.