50 Most Influential Gadgets

[yinyang]

:pOne for the kopi addicts

#56 Drip Coffee Maker

 

[yinyang]

#57 Swiss Army Knife

Carl Elsener, a Swiss journeyman cutler, thought it was a disgrace that Swiss soldiers carried German-made knives.
In 1890, he introduced the first Swiss Army Knife, the Modell 1980, which had a blade, an awl, a can opener and a screwdriver.

 

[yinyang]

#58 Safety Razor

 

[yinyang]

#59 Kodak Carousel

 

[jw5]

:pOne for the kopi addicts

#56 Drip Coffee Maker

This is very very influential. It kept them awake so that they could invent the other 58 gadgets.

 

[yinyang]

#60 Boom Box

Invented in 1970s, hip hop and DJs

 

[halsey02]

I can list all that I have owned from the list here:

1. Apple - iPhone, iPod, iPad.
2. Sony Walkman - Cassette, CD.
3. VCR
4. US Robotics Sportster 56k Modem....the distributor was some "Stephenson" bought in Funan Centre.
5. Motorola Bravo Pager ( still have it) & two other Korean models ( still have them)
6. Sony Camcorder
7. Answering Machine - National Brand
8. Polaroid 600 Camera ( still around, the viewfinder plastic rotted away) still working.
9. DVD Player...now BD Player
10. Nokia 3210, & few others
11. HP Deskjet
12. Palm Pilot - 2 generations & 1 Compaq
13. Shredder -
14. Stapler, from normal size to huge ones.
15. Game & Watch - 2 versions , the octopus one & the one of people jumping off a burning building....now the LCD screen pixels not displaying.
16. Cassette Player - Sanyo (2), Sony Boom Box (1)
17. Kodak Carousel
18. Gillette Shaving Blades , must add Old Spice Shaving Cream plus Old Spice Shaving Cologne.

I don't have the pictures:

still with me:

a. Sony Portable voice recorder ( for office use, especially in important meetings)
b. My digital diary & phone book before the advent of mobile phones , still working CASIO SF4300 32KB digital diary.

 

[yinyang]

I can list all that I have owned from the list here:
still with me:
a. Sony Portable voice recorder ( for office use, especially in important meetings)
b. My digital diary & phone book before the advent of mobile phones , still working CASIO SF4300 32KB digital diary.

For your time capsule. :p

 

[halsey02]

For your time capsule. :p

I had one, but when moving residences lost those boxes...that included that Record Player with the huge horn, plus a portable record player from National, if you watch early days movie...you will see them, you bring them to the beach or....romanzing your girl...it comes with speakers built in ( STEREO) & one portable mechanical calculator ( forgot the brand) that was before CASIO sold theirs....& a host of other things, not seen anymore today...ahh! yes!....my Voigt Lander B/W Camera that takes great pictures & no brainer & my father's mechanical watch ( forgot the brand) that needs manual winding & display the positions of the stars..or was it the seasons??

 

[yinyang]

#61 Electric Toothbrush

U.S. Navy submariners didn't have much to smile about: Subsisting on mushy canned food for months on end,
they got almost zero gum stimulation. Electric toothbrushes came aboard in 1959, solving the problem.
They later found a wider audience--and inspired the invention of another vibrating device (but that's a gadget for an entirely different article).

 

[yinyang]

#62 Tape Measure

The modern, spring-loaded tape measure was created by Alvin Fellows in 1868.
Fellows' work improved upon an earlier model by encasing the tool in plastic and attaching
it to a spring clip to lock the tape in place until its release.
Yet despite the spring tape measure's timeless utilitarianism, it didn't start outselling the wooden ruler until the 1940s;
the gadget sped up construction during a major building boom: 14.1 million houses in a decade.

 

[yinyang]

#63 The Zipper (aka the Fly)

 

[yinyang]

#64
The Derringer

1825, Henry Derringer

 

[yinyang]

#65
Smoke Detector

When Duane Pearsall founded the Statitrol Corporation in the 1960s, lifesaving wasn't his motivation
--it was curbing static, specifically in photo dark rooms. But during prototype testing of their static control device,
Statitrol's technicians noticed that a meter measuring ion concentration flat-lined whenever cigarette smoke hit it.
"By accident, we had discovered how to make an ionization smoke detector," Pearsall said.

 

[yinyang]

One for the musicians in our midst :p

#66 Moog Syntheiser

Robert Moog, 1964

 

[yinyang]

#67 CD-ROM

Early computer games required multiple floppies;Alone in the Dark, for example, took four.
The CD-ROM, packed with huge stores of animation and gaming data, allowed kids to upload one disc and disappear into the Myst.

 

[yinyang]

#68 Hair Dryer

Developed circa 1920s

 

[yinyang]

#69 CB (??!) Radio

Circa 1949

 

[yinyang]

#70 Car Jack

Richard Dudgeon invented the compact, portable hydraulic jack, in 1851. when he was just 32 years old.
Now a staple of every auto shop and pit row in the land, its original habitats were shipyards and railroad repair shops.

 

[yinyang]

#71 Cassette Tape

Invented by Philips in 1962, this format began outselling vinyl on a per capita basis in the U.S. in the early 1980s
before yielding later in the decade to the CD.