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 From Walkman to Tivo to the Motorola StarTac, this list covers them all.  Some of their choices seem more trendy than anything else (the list’s members were voted there by readers), but it’s still neat to check out the roots of some of our favorite devices today.  Check and see if your favorite old-time gizmo is on the list at: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123950,00.asp

"…we’d be lost without these things. We don’t merely test and write about digital gear, we live and breathe the stuff. In honor of this raging gizmo infatuation, we polled our editors and asked them to name the top 50 gadgets of the last 50 years. The rules? The devices had to be relatively small (no cars or big-screen TVs, for example), and we considered only those items whose digital descendants are covered in PC World (cameras, yes; blenders, no). We rated each gadget on its usefulness, design, degree of innovation, and influence on subsequent gadgets, as well as the ineffable quality we called the ‘cool factor.’ Then we tallied the results." PCWorld.com

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