Powerbook 100 "greatest gadget of all time"
Apple's Powerbook: The greatest gadget ever?
The Apple Powerbook 100 has been chosen as the greatest gadget of all time, by US magazine Mobile PC.
The magazine has compiled an all-time top 100 list of gadgets, which includes the Sony Walkman at number three and the 1956 Zenith remote control at two.
Gadgets needed moving parts and/or electronics to warrant inclusion.
The magazine specified that gadgets also needed to be a "self-contained apparatus that can be used on its own, not a subset of another device".
1. Apple Powerbook 100 (1991)
2. Zenith Space Command remote control (1956)
3. Sony Walkman (1979)
4. Motorola Startac (1996)
5. CDI mechanical mouse (1970)
6. Casio QV-10 digital camera (1996)
7. US Robotics Pilot 1000 (1996)
8. Diamond Multimedia Rio 300 (1998) <-- ha ha ha stupid vb code "1998"
9. Atari 7600 (1977)
10. Tivo Series 1 (1999)
* According to Mobile PC magazine
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The Apple Powerbook 100 has been chosen as the greatest gadget of all time, by US magazine Mobile PC.
The magazine has compiled an all-time top 100 list of gadgets, which includes the Sony Walkman at number three and the 1956 Zenith remote control at two.
Gadgets needed moving parts and/or electronics to warrant inclusion.
The magazine specified that gadgets also needed to be a "self-contained apparatus that can be used on its own, not a subset of another device".
1. Apple Powerbook 100 (1991)
2. Zenith Space Command remote control (1956)
3. Sony Walkman (1979)
4. Motorola Startac (1996)
5. CDI mechanical mouse (1970)
6. Casio QV-10 digital camera (1996)
7. US Robotics Pilot 1000 (1996)
8. Diamond Multimedia Rio 300 (1998) <-- ha ha ha stupid vb code "1998"
9. Atari 7600 (1977)
10. Tivo Series 1 (1999)
* According to Mobile PC magazine
BBC news link
j.
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