CharminUltra
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An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone … Are you getting it?
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Time releases "The 50 Most Influential Gadgets"
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Mineshaft_Gap
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Ahh the Magic Wand. When there's a job to be done and you want the most efficient solution possible.
TiVo should be top 5. It spawned a total revolution in how an entire generation of people watch TV. Whereas the Wii, despite it's original codename, revolutionized absolutely nothing.
I can give it to Apple for the iPod and the iPhone. Even though now and at the time I preferred different devices (iAudio X5 >>> iPod ANY DAY).
TiVo should be top 5. It spawned a total revolution in how an entire generation of people watch TV. Whereas the Wii, despite it's original codename, revolutionized absolutely nothing.
I can give it to Apple for the iPod and the iPhone. Even though now and at the time I preferred different devices (iAudio X5 >>> iPod ANY DAY).
That reminds me of something I read (I think on Neogaf) about them making a vibrating Harry Potter Broom. And the girls would use the broom for hours on end.
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Found a link http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1927306_1927313_1927329,00.html
UnemployedVillain
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Its design philosophy live on. You can see the hint of its UI in the iPhone, the hardware with the Roku, its casual games with the various mobile games. That, sir, is "the omni-generational appeal of interactive entertainment."
Dr. Feel Good
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Agreed. The Wii ushered in the casual game landscape and heavily influenced the new F2P model. It gave publishers insight into how fickle consumers are and how to better "hook" them. Whether you agree or not with how the game model shifted, Wii had a large impact on how it has played out.
sixteen-bit
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I still got 3 Trinitrons including 2 PVMs lol
Oveja Negra
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In my family we had two models, one of them was a 17", which was for the time, like having a 44" today
Both of them lasted around 20 years (picture quality began to suffer).
I still regret not keeping them as "collectible" items.
InfiniteBento
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Wii being higher than Raspberry Pi.....lmao what
Aaronrules380
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Why the fuck is the Oculus rift here right now when the final product hasn't even been shipped yet. I mean, maybe it will be super influential, but it's still way too early to make that call
The Roku was originally envisioned as a Netflix device.
Zantetsuken
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I know the Zune gets a lot of hate, but I thought it was somewhat influential.
Subpar Spatula
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Because Google put a lot of R&D into that will eventually spill over else where. Do you really believe the future of VR will be wearing clunky helmets in your living room with sensors?
The Power Of Snap
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No blast processing?
In my family we had two models, one of them was a 17", which was for the time, like having a 44" today
Both of them lasted around 20 years (picture quality began to suffer).
I still regret not keeping them as "collectible" items.
Ya, I think we had a 17" too. It also lasted around 20 years, which puts today's electronics to shame. It became mine when we bought our second Trinitron, which was like 22".
The second one simply got fuzzy towards the end, but the first one developed a wavy picture and then finally a weird squirming "black hole" that roamed around the screen. I turned it off and permanently unplugged it when I saw that bizarre thing.
Google Glass, for all it didn't accomplish, pushed AR R&D forward industry-wide.
The iBook was the first laptop with integrated WiFi, which was kind of a big deal.
NipplesAndToes23
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What qualifies as a gadget? I never thought of a game console as a gadget.
The Macintosh should not be on the list.
Gadgets are usually small portable electronics.
The list "jumped the shark" at #47. A full-sized piano is not a gadget.
They should have just called the list "influential electronics".
It's not.
Gadgets are usually small portable electronics.
The list "jumped the shark" at #47. A full-sized piano is not a gadget.
They should have just called the list "influential electronics".
Kurt Angle
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was gonna post "if iphone isnt #1....."
rage averted
rage averted
#1 is probably accurate. It really was the device that ushered in a totally new era of "personal computing"
I don't know what Segway and Google Glass are doing on there. The tech that went into creating GG may end up being influential, but has it really been influential yet? Seems a bit presumptuous. Segway turned out to be a joke compared to what Dean Kamen anticipated its impact to be, but maybe the technology behind it was more influential in other devices than I'm aware of, I dunno.
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^Vaporizers. I didn't think of that but that's a good point. The industry has exploded over the last few years, created an entire "subculture", and has replaced cigarette smoking for many people for crissakes. Really should've been on the list.
I don't know what Segway and Google Glass are doing on there. The tech that went into creating GG may end up being influential, but has it really been influential yet? Seems a bit presumptuous. Segway turned out to be a joke compared to what Dean Kamen anticipated its impact to be, but maybe the technology behind it was more influential in other devices than I'm aware of, I dunno.
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^Vaporizers. I didn't think of that but that's a good point. The industry has exploded over the last few years, created an entire "subculture", and has replaced cigarette smoking for many people for crissakes. Really should've been on the list.
InfiniteBento
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eyy fuck you buddy.
If that's enough to make you rage, you need to grow up.
The Zune HD was a great music playing device but iThings were at the absolute hype peak and nonexistant advertising made the device nothing more than the beta test for WinMo's future
Elwood Blues
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I would of had the toaster at number 1.
I'd say it's only the second most influential invention, the bread slicer has to come first.
IdreamofHIME
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Never owned anything out the top ten.
Was my first thought as well, but then my Great Grandmother didn't know what a DS was. She did know what the Wii was. She was 83 and didn't stay "in the loop" on things.
It still could have fit somewhere though, I'm sure.
Conkersbadfurday
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Well fuck me with a wizard weapon!
I've had six of them. Half second hand. I even have a Kodak Brownie someone gave to me.
CharminUltra
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The Zune. It's crackalackin!
Magic Wand, the Cadillac of vibrators.
Fun fact, Hitachi finally sold the Magic Wand tech/brand to another company after recently insisting it was only a massager. Everyone still calls it "the Hitachi". lol
It was the first consumer device with a non-shit touch screen for sure. It paved the way for the iPhone.
Fun fact, Hitachi finally sold the Magic Wand tech/brand to another company after recently insisting it was only a massager. Everyone still calls it "the Hitachi". lol
It was the first consumer device with a non-shit touch screen for sure. It paved the way for the iPhone.
Why is a Trinitron influential?
Not even close.
Which is still far more than it deserves
Not even close.
Which is still far more than it deserves
Elwood Blues
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There's a fucking piano on this but not a toaster. List is fucking wack.
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