Emanuela B.Designers agree with this statement, it’s extremely hard nowadays to imagine new and new gadgets or at least new features for the existent products. Much more, there are so many competent designers that it is practically impossible to create something without being already sketched by other individuals.
The designers that imagined these are fully deserving our appreciation, they have a noble purpose: the make our lives more enjoyable and comfortable. Therefore, enjoy the post, share it with your friends, and appreciate the talent and the work of the designers!
The origins of the word “gadget” trace back to the 19th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal (not necessarily true) evidence for the use of “gadget” as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can’t remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown’s 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy’s log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper containing the earliest known usage in print.[2] The etymology of the word is disputed.
A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was “invented” when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repoussé construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after their firm; however this contradicts the evidence that the word was already used before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular, at least in the USA, until after World War I. Other sources cite a derivation from the French gâchette which has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or the French gagée, a small tool or accessory.
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