[boycott]

The one that makes sliced bread?

[BenLurkin]

I can't believe it. They left off the Pizza Cutter Fork

[w1andsodidwe]

No 6 is the only one that predates me. Astounded how many of these I have owned.

[Swordmaker]

TIME has released their list of the most influential Gadgets of all time. Apple holds 10% of the list with five of the spots on the list with the Apple iPhone holding the Top Spot with the iPhone in #1, the Macintosh Computer in #3, the iPod in #9, the iPad in #25, and the Apple iBook in #38. Android makes the list a couple of times, and IBM and Microsoft are their with the first PC, the IBM Model 5150 (I wonder if the police slang for a crazy person of 51-50 had anything to do with that?), and the IBM Selectric Typewriter, and even a vibrator made the list with Hitachi's Magic Wand. . . LOL! — PING!

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[PAR35]

Missing from the list - Kodak Instamatic camera and the TI SR-10, the first pocket calculator with algebraic function.

[Larry Lucido]

[Political Junkie Too]

This should be at top of every list.

-PJ

[sten]

gawd, i hate lazy writers and sloppy thinkers.

here’s a quick list of THE MOST influential gadgets OF ALL TIME:

- wheel
- axle
- pencil
- modern pen
- typewriter
- printing press
- microscope
- cotton gin
- textile loom
- battery
- combustion engine
- refrigeration
- time (proper watches)
- hypodermic needle

i could easily go on. so many things were FAR more influential on the world then an iphone.

idiots.

[LibWhacker]

(Actually, my first choice is the "boob radio," but I was afraid to post a picture of it here.)

[yarddog]

All such lists are controversial by nature but this one is the worst I have ever seen.

How about the zipper?

[WyCoKsRepublican]

The peanut

[Texas Fossil]

Edison's Incandescent Light Bulb, which we are no long able to buy because the US government “banned” them.

Just Think, we once were a nation of free men.

[Elderberry]

Digital watch, walkie talkie, and kitchen timer

[Elderberry]

And the ignition timing light

[PAR35]

Politically incorrect now, but the gadget that won World War II - the Zippo lighter. Runner up, the Bic lighter. And now that I think of it, the Bic 19 cent ball point pen.

[pgyanke]

This list is horrible! What about the Shake Weight?!

[Kommodor]

For a Gen X type, I have more of those than I thought I would. Six, to be precise.

[r_barton]

Not the iphone. Just a pocket cell phone. You no longer had to look for a phone booth.

Yea, it got smart later with the iphone. But just having a phone with you at all times changed everything.