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The most influential gadgets by Time magazine

Самые «влиятельные» гаджеты по версии TimeThe leaders of Apple products.

American Time magazine published on its website a list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time.

The list was compiled after a lengthy discussion within the team edition.

It is noted that these devices were not always the first of their kind and have not achieved commercial success, but influenced the industry as a whole.

In the first three positions are the first generation of the Apple iPhone ushered in an era of smartphones with touch screen) color TV from the 1960’s Sony Trinitron and personal computer the Apple Macintosh set the standard of human interaction and computer).

Places from fourth to tenth cassette player is a Sony Walkman (the first portable, simple and affordable music player) computer IBM Model 5150 (became the basis for all personal computers out of Apple’s market), phonograph Victrola (opened the era of home music listening), the first production pocket transistor radio Regency TR-1, camera budget of the family Kodak Brownie (made the photo available to all), Apple iPod audio player (convinced consumers to abandon CD players) and a vibrating massager Hitachi Magic Wand.

In the second ten lists of the calculator, the Canon Pocketronic (became the precursor to reduce the cost and miniaturization of handheld calculators), a Philips N1500 VCR player (let record live TV), game console Atari 2600 (was in the vanguard of a revolution in the gaming industry), modem US Robotics Sportster 56K (dial-up modems opened the Internet to millions of families), a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES revived the market after the crisis the gaming industry), pocket Nintendo Game Boy (opened the market of modern mobile games), electric typewriter IBM Selectric (marked the beginning of the computer era), the Motorola Bravo pager (opened the way for other mobile communication devices), video camera JVC VideoMovie (for example home video camera that changed the world in the mid-1980s) and Motorola Droid (the first successful smartphone on the Android platform).

In the top-50 are also present in the IBM Thinkpad 700C laptop, GPS Navigator TomTom, answering machine Phonemate 400, BlackBerry 6210, iPad, home computer, the Commodore 64, a Polaroid camera, e-book Amazon Kindle, Apple TV TiVo, DVD player Toshiba, game consoles Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Wii, set-top box for cable TV Jerrold Cable Box, mobile phone-best seller Nokia 3210, HP DeskJet printer, pocket computer, Palm Pilot, cell phone, Motorola Dynatac 8000x, laptop, Apple iBook, virtual reality helmet Oculus Rift, portable CD player Sony Discman D-50, Apple TV Roku Netflix Player, digital pedometer Fitbit, a portable computer, the Osborne 1, Nest thermostat, single Board computer, Raspberry Pi, drone DJI Phantom, digital piano Clavinova Yamaha, scooter Segway, household 3D printer Makerbot Replicator headset and Google Glass.

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