Best Gadget Purchased?

bbk3e

What's the best gadget you've ever purchased? What's the one thing that you use frequently and you think to yourself, "Aw yeah! Love this thing!"

I love Google TV. It's great to be able to search for programming that includes YouTube and such. Also like the integrated web browser. My wife and I are always looking up information as we come across topics of interest while watching TV. We also use it as a menu when ordering take-out...

How 'bout you?

HellRa1SeR

My Android phone, or particularly Samsung galaxy S2 (I had a few other droids before).

Productivity has increased so much with my smartphone that I no longer can live without it.

GadgetFreak

12 years ago: my Newton MessagePad 2000
(Yeah, I'm old-OLD-school! ;)
Basically the same reason as HellRa1SeR above-was the first time I'd been able to carry my key data and entertainment with me (I'm an avid book reader) -and be able to lookup, modify and interact on the road with others (cellular modems were once a really cool thing ).
Used it for 5 years before other tech started catching up.

neocaster

First Blackberry (a Pearl 8100.)

I had smart phones previously. I had a Pocket PC (windows embedded) phone (Essentially a Compaq iPaq with a mobile baseband) with so terrible a battery life that it got about 4 hours on standby if the baseband was turned on. I had to keep it charging at home, at the office, and in the car. I never quite bonded with it.

Then I got the Blackberry. It was terrible, and not much better to type on than a traditional 9-key pad (each key shared 2 characters and the software tried to guess which one you meant to press as you progressed through your word.)

BUT It changed how I manage my time and tasks entirely, could play games and navigate (Bluetooth GPS, none onboard.)

I went through 2 other Blackberrys before I got my first iPhone but none have changed my life more than that first Blackberry.

dersie

Wimm-One

The best smartwatch than I see.

Android system and color screen. Built in essential app like Stopwatch, Timer, calendar, alarm, weather. Sync with wifi so it works also without connected all time at phone. Touch screen, no buttons.

Many insteressting App like calculator, convert unit, Task sync with Astrid, note, reminder.....

Real SDK and perfect watch simulator include

At this time stopped in Preview developpement Kit....

I wear it for almost a year and everything is perfect. Everything is extremely well thought out.

jitmonlee

Never been more pleased with a gadget than I have with my iPad (3rd Gen). It was literally an impulse buy, My friend was getting one and I went along with him. As we got to the store, I just bought it, without thinking! Absolutely love it! As soon as the next gen one comes out, i'll be upgrading, (hoping to get Wi-Fi only with 128gb so I can store a load of films and shows!). 

kisrita

My GNex. I had other Android phones, tablets, ipad 3, google tv, Roku, blackberries, windows phones, and palm, but my Galaxy Nexus (gsm), is my favorite and most useful gadget. Every time I look at it I still think, "I love this phone". I'm sure the Nexus 4 is even better, but I love my GNex so much I never felt the need to upgrade.

LarryRusslin

Youngsters. 

My first "Uniden Cordless Phone". How great to be able to answer and make calls from any room in the house. Wow ! 

Oh, I forgot, my first remote controlled Panasonic TV. I didn't have to get up to spin the knob on the damn thing. 

One of these two. 

Dillinger-63

Another vote for my iPad 3 64 gig.

Alex Jacobs

My casio MP3 watch i got in 2000, I loved this thing I used it for about 2 years.  It had 32gb of memory so I would encode at 80kbs joint stereo and would just about get an album on there which would last me for one gym session.

So many people would ask me about it.  It rocked!

Then my Sony C-series 850mhz 387mb ram...  9 inch ultra wide screen a netbook before netbooks used that for 5 years before anyone else came out with anything close.

Sylar

The first iPhone and the first ipad. Before Samsung and HTC and android joined the game.

John Dawson

TiVo + TiVo Stream + iPad let's me download whatever I recorded on the TiVo to my iPad so I can watch whatever while I am on the treadmill or exercycle.

Sandbag

If I was told I had to get rid of all my gadgets but one, I'd keep my iPad3. That's including my computer.

Saeran

It's hard to think of one.  I'll do one for every few years.

My Late 2007 Macbook Pro.  My first laptop, used for 5 years and was amazing in it's earlier ones.

iPod Touch (4th Gen) 2010.  My first portable device, changing the time I spent at my (now starting to get old) Macbook Pro.  My android phone that I use now does not make this list.

My Current PC.  My PC which I built.  My Hackintosh featuring a Asus P8Z77-V Pro Mobo, 3570K, Corsair 650D, Intel 330 Series 120GB SSD, Seagate 1TB Barcuda, WD Green 1TB, Random Laptop Drive, Corsair HX750, No GPU yet.  Having two 1080p displays was what changed things for me.

Pebble still hasn't changed things enough to make this list.

whacko

Its a toss up between my 3 Xbox 360's and my Galaxy S3. 

pneumeric

I have a few gadgets I love but the one that puts a smile on my face every time I use it, is my coffee machine!

50+ years old and still making spectacular espresso!

Version 1 Arrarex caravel if anyone was interested

David Telesca

I think my original Treo was the most amazing, as it started my down the smartphone road.

Joerk Krueger

Zx Sinclair spectrum 64 kbyte, yeah, I know, thats ages ago, but i could peek and poke.... And have hewbrew letters back in 1981 on my screen

CaffeineJunkie

Joerk Krueger said:

Zx Sinclair spectrum 64 kbyte, yeah, I know, thats ages ago, but i could peek and poke.... And have hewbrew letters back in 1981 on my screen

[Pedant alert] ZX Spectrum was originally available in 16 or 48KB, with a 128KB version later. [Pedant alert]

I cut my teeth on that as well. 

hcdavis3

My new Yamaha AV Receiver (RX A 2020) and my late 2012 iMac

ymilord

Seriously, I'd have to say my MBA (Macbook Air) I got the 11" model /w the upgraded SSD from OCZ (480GB). This puppy flies. Its slightly bigger then the fill size iPad. The runner up would be the iPad Mini (/w LTE). I have this cable from Redpark that adds serial capabilities. Teamed up with a app called "Console". I also use an app called "Prompt" which gives me SSH. The beauty is they both support dropbox. So I can create a config file for something like a Cisco 1142n on my desktop, script it out. The walk over to the WAP, plug in the rollover cable and bam. Out of box to fully configured. This also works on HP Procurve switches. (or anything that uses the cisco style rollovers) This includes the RJ45 to Serial dongle too.

kertong

I started as a pimply teenager on the road to gadgetwhoring with my beloved HP48GX.  It's a tie between that or the US Robotics palm pilot 5000.

Ahhh, how far we have come..