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History's Most Beloved Gadgets

blog.wired.com — Here's a list of history's honeys, machines which were not only big sellers but earned themselves a place in the hearts of the buyers. If you are the kind of person who names your dead, inanimate devices, its likely that you christened at least some of these.

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  • madpainter, on 01/14/2009, -3/+32Buried for BS. Unashamed hucksterism. "Here's a list of history's honeys, machines which were not only big sellers but earned themselves a place in the hearts of the buyers"

    First up: Palm Pre. It isn't even available yet so how does it qualify as a history honey, big seller?
  • LiquidSpark, on 01/14/2009, -1/+13This article kinda flopped with it's first choice. The other choices were ok but the Pre kinda killed the whole article.
  • upick, on 01/14/2009, -1/+12What an extensive bs, I can think of a few more besides 6
  • kawaiirobo, on 01/14/2009, -2/+10I'm torn, I want to bury this article for the Palm Pre, but dammit that ugly gray brick with dot matrix and stereo sound made my childhood.
  • diskit, on 01/14/2009, -2/+9I like the bury button myself.
  • yocouchdigga, on 01/14/2009, -8/+14rockin' Vanilla Ice in the walkman in first grade, ***** was gangster. (don't kid yourself, Ice was the man)

    dugg for nostalgia.
  • boozedrinker, on 01/15/2009, -1/+7Hi! ***** MrBabyMan.
  • Branchex, on 01/14/2009, -2/+7Sony should make an MP3 player that looks like the original Walkman, the nostalgia alone would sell it. With so many DRM free stores now is the time to cash in.
  • borez, on 01/15/2009, -1/+6My life in gadgets ( from what I can remember ):

    Big track: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtrak

    TCR: http://www.ilovethe80s.com/totalcontrolracing.jpg

    Scalextric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalextric

    Hornby:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornby_Railways

    Atari 2600

    Astrowars

    ZX80

    ZX81

    ZX Spectrum; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

    Commodore 64

    BBC electron

    BBC B

    Sega mega drive

    Nokia phones ( all of them ) 2190, 8110, 3110. 6130, 6210, 8890, 5210, 6310, 8310, 6230, 6230i, 1112, N73

    Snes

    PS1

    Saga dreamcast (still my favorite)

    PS2 x4

    xbox, xbox 360

    Macs LC1, Quadra 650, LC2, 7100, 8100, , Quadra 900, G3, G4 x 2, G5

    And this doesn't even scrape the surface of the synthesisers and musical equipment I've owned, that another story in itself

    Christ... I've owned a lot of ***** over the years.





  • inactive, on 01/15/2009, -0/+4hes from the future?
  • webPragmatist, on 01/15/2009, -1/+5Buried because of the stupid pre intro.
  • pinchduck, on 01/15/2009, -0/+3Wow. Dugg for hitting the "memory dump" button on the bigtrak button in my brain. I didn't even remember owning one until I hit your link. Dang. Brains are funny.
  • farfromhere, on 01/15/2009, -1/+4Dugg for white and nerdy.
  • dragon76, on 01/15/2009, -0/+3Who would have thought that Nintendo could base 20 years of insane profits off Gunpei Yokoi.
  • lroche, on 01/15/2009, -2/+5um the Palm Pre isn't out yet so how can it be beloved. Coveted yes. Beloved no.
  • darthjure, on 01/15/2009, -1/+3I keep waiting for my GameBoy (still fully functional) to become a collector's item on Ebay. Hasn't happened yet...
  • uberduger, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2Didn't he throw a hissy fit and quit Digg last year?...
    No offense, MBM, but seriously, I'm always surprised to see you hanging around these days.
  • lordmike, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2What, no Atari 2600?
  • mwilkinson, on 01/15/2009, -3/+5***** you BabyMan
  • nigdef, on 01/15/2009, -1/+3I PODS ARE OVERPRICED RUBBISH AND ARE ONLY BOUGHT BY FASHION VICTIMS.....THINK ABOUT IT
  • A11YND, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2come on, ATRAC isn't bad!


    *misses mini-disc player*
  • dragon76, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2In the early days of MP3 players, there was one that actually was a cassette MP3 player that would play through the deck and responded to the forward, reverse and play buttons on tape decks
  • inactive, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2Just mentally block out the Palm Pre and replace it with a picture of MacGyver holding a Swiss Army Knife.
  • kawaiirobo, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2according to legend, Nintendo didn't think so, I'm sure they are happy they took that gamble though.
  • Khast, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2I have like 4 of the original green screen gameboys, and a ***** of games. Oh, and tetris has yet to turn my eyes square.

    I have a few Sony Walkmans kicking around in a few different forms, from cassette, to aatrac and MP3. (Sorry apple, no iPods...maybe if they allowed drag and drop...then I will consider.)

    Have a lot of 80s tech laying around here. :D
  • MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2The article is compiled to be an advertisement for the Palm device.
  • CaptainNoPants, on 01/21/2009, -0/+1Only 5? And one of them hasn't even been released yet?

    Buried.
  • g00dbye, on 01/15/2009, -1/+2If you really wanted to do it justice, you could've buried it.
  • mGARANDEUR1, on 01/15/2009, -1/+2So I guess the palm pre made it in the list but not the iphone. Wow...really accurate.
  • beauley, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1Speaking of Gizmos...
    We are told by the Vision Council of America That: The U.S., as of 2006 used vision correction such as eyeglasses or contact lenses, representing over 75 % of the country’s total adult population. That is a lot of lenses that can get dirty and smudged with oils from the eye causing vision impairment. Finally, there is a scratch free solution.
    http://www.gomestic.com/Do-It-Yourself/How-to-Make ...
    How to Make Your Own Scratchless Eyeglass Cleaner
  • ShannonGB, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1Or we can just make a mod?
  • uberduger, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1Buried for the original GameBoy being: "uncomfortable to use".
    Pah - it's ***** like the guy who wrote this who are responsible for my phone and DS being stupid sizes that are much harder to use with my big hands.
  • DuMbGuM, on 01/15/2009, -1/+2Sega Game Gear, Please !
  • emudeath, on 01/15/2009, -2/+2All I want to know is where is the virtual boy???!!!
  • kangy3213, on 01/15/2009, -3/+3Buried cause a huge whiny babyman posted it
  • Stettenbauer, on 01/15/2009, -2/+2Too early for= pre love(yea I know it's called foreplay) ,but why all the palm smack?I am not a fanboy ,but the interface on it is the best I've seen yet .
  • conversekid, on 01/15/2009, -6/+5Not dugg for MrBabyMan
  • doshindude, on 01/15/2009, -10/+8"Think about it -- if you were going to buy a portable music player today, what would you get? I'm betting its not a Zune."
    Too bad I have a Zune and would NEVER buy an ipod. what a POS.

    Ironically, the Zune DOES have an FM radio built in.

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