Partiendo de esta definición:
- It has to have electronic and/or moving parts of some kind. Scissors count, but the knife does not.
- It has to be a self-contained apparatus that can be used on its own, not a subset of another device. The flashlight counts; the light bulb does not. The notebook counts, but the hard drive doesn’t.
- It has to be smaller than the proverbial bread box. This is the most flexible of the categories, since gadgets have gotten inexorably smaller over time. But in general we included only items that were potentially mobile: The Dustbuster counts; the vacuum cleaner doesn’t.
MobilePC indica los 100 mejores dispositivos de todos los tiempos. Algunos son curiosos, como el cubo de Rubik, el Tamagotchi, el ábaco, el sextante, la Gameboy, el Walkman o el iPod. En otros casos, sorprende que aparezcan en la lista. Un ejemplo, el que ocupa el primer puesto. Para esa posición esperaba algo más divertido.
(vía MemeFirst)
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