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Chief Eating Officer
Maybe this is a better example. What about a kitchen strainer. That has one function and requires no skill. Is it a gadget?
That's definitely a gadget but it's way cool. Do you think it works on cooked as well as uncooked?another gadget.
Maybe this is a better example. What about a kitchen strainer. That has one function and requires no skill. Is it a gadget?
If a good chef's knife is a tool....
What is Ron Popeil's Six Star Showtime Knife that cuts through frozen bricks, slices peach pits, spackles drywall and will still cut your fingers if you're not careful?
A bad knife with good gadget marketting?
LOL...a tool from a Tool.
I'm beginning to think certain things, this being an example, are gadgets to some, but tools to another.
Maybe gadget verses tool verses appliance is based on individual use.
Maybe this is a better example. What about a kitchen strainer. That has one function and requires no skill. Is it a gadget?
My opinion, I think, is that they do not have to be mutually exclusive. A gadget can be a tool.
I'm beginning to think certain things, this being an example, are gadgets to some, but tools to another.
Maybe gadget verses tool verses appliance is based on individual use.
If a good chef's knife is a tool....
What is Ron Popeil's Six Star Showtime Knife that cuts through frozen bricks, slices peach pits, spackles drywall and will still cut your fingers if you're not careful?
A bad knife with good gadget marketting?
Hey, I consider R.P. Showtime knife to be a very useful tool. Every time I try to cut my bricks with a regular knife I wind up ruining the blade. This one cuts my bricks (and peach pits I might add) perfectly. Who wants whole peach pits for goodness sake.
A stove has only one function, to provide a heat source. Does that make it a gadget? After all, it's just a new-fnagled replacement for the perfectly good fire in the fireplace.
Then the deluxe George Forman isn't a gadget. Shipping weight is 17.5 pounds.New rule: If it weighs more than 10 lbs, it aint a gadget.