Posts from April 2007.

What makes a gadget a gadget?

istock_000002154116xsmall-1.jpgIf you’re active in today’s society, you can’t have missed the word ‘gadget’. The word itself is confusing, and means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

How come an item can be a gadget one week, and not the next? What makes one mobile phone a gadget, while another isn’t? Does something have to be high-tech to be a gadget? What draws people to gadgets?
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