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The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years - Yahoo! News

...The Complete List of PC World's 50 Greatest Gadgets

PC World's list of the top 50 tech gadgets of the last half century was assembled after we polled our editors for nominations. We then rated the nominated gadgets for usefulness, design, degree of innovation, influence on subsequent gadgets, and the "cool factor." Here are the results. (For more on our 50 Greatest Gadgets project, see the full story.)
# Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1979)
# Apple iPod (2001)
# (Tie) ReplayTV RTV2001 and TiVo HDR110 (1999)
# PalmPilot 1000 (1996)
# Sony CDP-101 (1982)
# Motorola StarTAC (1996)
# Atari Video Computer System (1977)
# Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera (1972)
# M-Systems DiskOnKey (2000)
# Regency TR-1 (1954)
# Sony PlayStation 2 (2000)
# Motorola Razr V3 (2004)
# Motorola PageWriter (1996)
# BlackBerry 850 Wireless Handheld (1998)
# Phonemate Model 400 (1971)
# Texas Instruments Speak & Spell (1978)
# Texas Instruments SR-10 (1973)
# Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300 %281998)
# Sony Handycam DCR-VX1000 (1995)
# Handspring Treo 600 (2003)
# Zenith Space Command (1956)
# Hamilton Pulsar (1972)
# Kodak Instamatic 100 (1963)
# MITS Altair 8800 (1975)
# Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (1983)
# Nintendo Game Boy (1989)
# Commodore 64 (1982)
# Apple Newton MessagePad (1994)
# Sony Betamax (1975)
# Sanyo SCP-5300 (2002)
# iRobot Roomba Intelligent Floorvac (2002)
# Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (1999)
# Franklin Rolodex Electronics REX PC Companion (1997)
# Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 10 (1998)
# Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (1983)
# Iomega Zip Drive (1995)
# Magnavox Magnavision Model 8000 DiscoVision Videodisc Player (1978)
# Milton Bradley Simon (1978)
# Play, Inc Snappy Video Snapshot (1996)
# Connectix QuickCam (1994)
# BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator (1993)
# Motorola Handie Talkie HT-220 Slimline (1969)
# Polaroid Swinger (1965)
# Sony Aibo ERS-110 (1999)
# Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 (1997)
# Learjet Stereo-8 (1965)
# Timex/Sinclair 1000 (1982)
# Sharp Wizard OZ-7000 (1989)
# Jakks Pacific TV Games (2002)
# Poqet PC Model PQ-0164 (1990)



Following is PC World's list of the 50 greatest tech gadgets of the last 50 years, organized by decade (gadgets released the same year are listed in alphabetical order).

1950s
1954Regency TR-1 (10)
1956Zenith Space Command (21)

1960s
1963Kodak Instamatic 100 (23)
1965Learjet Stereo-8 (46), Polaroid Swinger (43)
1969Motorola Handie Talkie HT-220 Slimline (42)

1970s
1971Phonemate Model 400 (15)
1972 Hamilton Pulsar (22), Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera (8)
1973 Texas Instruments SR-10 (17)
1975 MITS Altair 8800 (24), Sony Betamax (29)
1977 Atari Video Computer System (7)
1978 Magnavox Magnavision Model 8000 DiscoVision Videodisc Player (37), Milton Bradley Simon (38), Texas Instruments Speak & Spell (16)
1979 Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1)

1980s
1982 Commodore 64 (27), Sony CDP-101 (5), Timex/Sinclair 1000 (47)
1983 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (35), Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (25)
1989 Nintendo Game Boy (26), Sharp Wizard OZ-7000 (48)

1990s
1990 Poqet PC Model PQ-0164 (50)
1993 BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator (41)
1994 Apple Newton MessagePad (28), Connectix QuickCam (40)
1995 Iomega Zip Drive (36), Sony Handycam DCR-VX1000 (19)
1996 Motorola PageWriter (13), Motorola StarTAC (6), PalmPilot 1000 (4), Play, Inc. Snappy Video Snapshot (39)
1997 Franklin Rolodex Electronics REX PC Companion (33), Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 (45)
1998 BlackBerry 850 Wireless Handheld (14), Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300 (18), Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 1.0 (34)
1999 Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (32), ReplayTV RTV2001 and TiVo HDR110 (3, tie), Sony Aibo ERS-110 (44)

2000s
2000 M-Systems DiskOnKey (9), Sony PlayStation 2 (11)
2001 Apple iPod (2)
2002iRobot Roomba Intelligent Floorvac (31), Jakks Pacific TV Games (49), Sanyo SCP-5300 (30)
2003Handspring Treo 600 (20)
2004Motorola Razr V3 (12)


The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years - Yahoo! News

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