Gadgets
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The document explores the origins and definition of the term "gadget". It traces the word back to French placeholders and discusses whether a gadget must be useful, a device, portable, and novel. After considering these factors, the document concludes that a gadget can be defined as "an awesome novel, most often portable, device, that may or may not be useful".
Gadgets
- 1. Gadget Geeks of London Melinda Seckington MissGeeky.com @mseckington
- 2. Gadgets?
- 4. Origins of the word gadget
- 5. Gaget, Gauthier & Cie
- 8. What defines a gadget?
- 9. Useful?
- 10. Useful? YES
- 11. Useful? YES
- 12. Useful? NO
- 13. Useful
- 14. Useful Useless?
- 15. Useless? NO
- 16. Useless? NO
- 17. Useful Useless
- 18. Useful Useless A Device?
- 19. a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment
- 21. What distinguishes a gadget from a device?
- 22. Useful Useless A Device
- 23. Useful Useless A Device Portable?
- 24. Portable? YES
- 25. Portable? YES
- 26. Portable? YES
- 27. Portable? YES
- 29. Useful Useless A Device Portable?
- 30. Consoles Hifi sets PCs TV Dishwasher Fridge
- 31. Useful Useless A Device Portable? Novel?
- 32. Consoles Stereos PCs TV Dishwasher Fridge
- 33. Novel? ...
- 34. Novel? ...
- 35. Depends on the generation
- 36. Useful Useless A Device Portable? Novel
- 37. Useful Useless A Device Portable? Novel Awesome
- 38. Gadget: an awesome novel, most often portable, device, that may or may not be useful
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