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gadget
(1) Slang for any hardware device, typically small. Synonymous with "gizmo."

(2) A mini application that resides on a computer desktop or personal home page, typically found in the Windows environment. Gadgets provide myriad functions, including customized news and stock quotes, calendar, dictionary lookups, cartoons and games.

Gadgets are available for the Windows Vista and Windows 7 desktops, Google Desktop and the personal home pages of Windows Live and iGoogle. On the Mac desktop and on Yahoo personal home pages, gadgets are called "widgets." See Sidebar, Google Desktop, iGoogle, widget, Windows Vista and Windows Live.

Gadgets
Gadgets provide useful functions that are always available on the desktop or that can be called up in an instant.
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In fact, it's enough to buy 35 Alcatel OT707s, the touchscreen phone for the gadgeteer with one eye on their wallet.
gadgets and gizmos by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
IF you remember the first iconic Apple Mac from 1984, the Motorola 'brick' phone and the original Nintendo game console, or fancy reminiscing about the Altair 8800 or the Osborne 1, The Gadget Hall of Fame gives all gadgeteers a techy trip down memory lane.
Inspect a GADGET by Birmingham Mail (England)
That said, it's hard to see the AV310s being of regular use to anyone other than frequent flyers or the gadgeteer who has to have everything.
VUZIX AV310 *** pounds 149.99; GADGETS by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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