50 greatest gadgets of last 50 years
PC World magazine has published it's take on the 50 greatest gadgets of the past 50 years. In order for gadgets to be considered for the 50 greatest list, they had to be relatively small and portable, and something PC World would have written about if it had been published when the gadgets came out.
Today, we focus on gadgets ten through six. Tomorrow, the top five.
Number six on the list: The Polaroid Land Camera SX-70.
The SX-70 was a thing of beauty. Just point, shoot, and watch the image develop before your eyes. When you're done, fold up the 7-by-4-inch unit and stick it in your bag. It was the first Polaroid to automatically eject the snapshot and produce images, without making you wait 60 seconds and peel off the outer wrapper of the film. The SX-70 combined simplicity with immediacy, making it the direct forebear of today's low-end digital cameras.