What are gadgets and devices?

A device is something made for a purpose, usually a tool or instrument. A device is usually a small tool or a machine that is used for a particular purpose. A gadget is a mechanical device or any ingenious item.

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are sometimes referred to as gadgets.

In the second half of the 20th century, the term device had acquired the connotations of compactness and mobility. Gadget critics even praised the phone more than 10 years after its release for its long battery life and clear reception. In the software industry, Gadget refers to computer programs that provide services without needing to launch a separate application for each, but instead run in an environment that manages multiple devices. The Regency's pocket radio was the first consumer device powered by transistors, ushering in an era of high-tech miniaturization.

The first atomic bomb was nicknamed a device by scientists at the Manhattan Project, tested at the Trinity site. Proprietary formats include Google Desktop, Google Gadgets, Microsoft Gadgets, AmigaOS Workbench and the Apple Widgets panel software. A widespread story holds that the word gadget was invented when Gaget, Gauthier %26 Cie, the company behind the elaborate construction of the Statue of Liberty (188), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after his company; however, this contradicts the evidence that the word already existed in use before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular, at least in the United States, until after the First World War. The October 1918 edition of Notes and Queries contains a multi-article entry on the word gadget (12 S.

When used as nouns, device means any equipment made for a particular purpose, especially mechanical or electrical), while contraption means something whose name cannot be called remember. The Windows X11 “Intrinsics” system also defines devices and their relationship with widgets (buttons, labels, etc.) BlackBerry created handheld devices for accessing email on the go before the 6210, but it was the first to combine web browsing and email with the functionality of a phone. The device was a windowless widget that was supposed to improve the application's performance by reducing the memory load on the X server. A class of servants of human needs, these dockable devices, these portable devices, have influenced American thinking and action much more deeply — I suspect— what is commonly understood.

The “jigger” or short footrest used in billiards is also often referred to as a “gadget”; and local platelet players have applied this name to the “meter” used to check the accuracy of their work.