He stood out in three ways－as a technologist, as a corporate?（公司的）leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets.

Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems

Meanwhile, the number of consumers hungry for such gadgets continues to swell.

He invented lots of functional gadgets

His keen interest in designing elegant and user-friendly gadgets.

Roughly the size of a soda can, sitting on a bookshelf, a relatively harmless gadget may be turning friends away from your home.

Many of the coolest gadgets this year are the same as the coolest gadgets last year – or the year before, even.

It is about the flashiness and the gadgets, said John Curran, managing director of research at Accenture.

But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

Time away from all electronic gadgets.

It stands in sharp contrast to Sanchez, this other gadget, a gas powered flame we killer, invented in 1997.