CNET Top 5 - Gadgets ahead of their time

Timing is everything. Here are five humble gadgets that paved the way for most of the technology we use every day.

[hectorae]

You forgot Amiga man. Multi-tasking, full color display, 3D rendering, built in midi sound system, totally way ahead of its time.

[Help]

How about the Apple Lisa? The first ever computer with a GUI?

[DukeNukem]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that Dreamcast controller influenced the design of the Xbox controller(even down to the original Xbox's dual memory card slots in the controller)

[tonytrinh]

Great list! Technology that is definitely taken for granted.

[yeqilai]

No one:
Actually no one
Really no one:
Youtube: let’s put this in people’s recommended 6 years later

[fixman]

I got on the Internet for the very first time on a WebTV that was on display at Circuit City back when it first came out!

[LeoHernandeznyc]

I still have my palm pilot laying around, really a great invention

[Theseniorlist]

Awesome gadgets here... Quite a trip down memory lane. Amazing how far we've come :)

[based_will]

Thank you for including the dreamcast!!

[MadelnMachines]

Those dreamcast buttons are taken from the SNES

[DreamMaker_]

The palm pilot and the dreamcast for sure!

[mrjp]

i still have my dreamcast, i loved it a lot

[AlfonsoRiveraJr]

Holy Crap Donald!, I was just as "sicked" out with that commercial of "the model and the nerd" as you were on this video. I remember the golden age of palm pilots too. Having gone thru quite of bit of them myself. I love those things back then.

[de]

Man, I wanted WebTV so badly back in the day. It was so awesome.

[coolshariq]

Man i love Sega Dreamcast!!! i still play craytaxi, never gets old

[MrTomek]

60 fps in 2013? This video was ahead of it time....

[DjSharperimage]

The Sega Dreamcast was the best. It was what I used to browse the internet for the first time in my life, because PC's were so expensive back then

[mmafighter]

The Archos Jukebox's were very advanced for their time. back when ipod still had a wheel (no offense ipod), archos was making video players with 60gb of storage that had camera and tv hookup attachments and audio recording. It helped get through college.

[kristinaification]

first off cell phones existed since the late 70s, but they looked more like set top phones that were mounted in your car. Second off, the Apple Newton predates the palm pilot by quite a few years, and you could do pretty much all that you could do with a palm pilot with it.

[DAVIDSDIEGO]

Nice to see the Dreamcast and WebTV made the list...👍