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4 unusual facts about GADGET


GADGET

Later, the code was continuously improved during postdocs of Volker Springel at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute, in collaboration with Simon White and Lars Hernquist.

Gadget

In the movie "Back to School" from 1986 by Alan Metter, there is a scene where an economics professor Dr. Barbay, wants to start for educational purposes a fictional company that produces "widgets: It's a fictional product."

Haruhiko Shono

1995 - Gadget Trips/Mindscapes - A kaleidoscopic 79-minute retelling of the 1993 Gadget story intended to explain the development of the Sensorama weapon and the war that serves as backdrop to the game.

In 1993, Shono was again awarded the MITI Prize as well as the Multimedia Association Chairman's Prize for his game, Gadget.


HTC Dream

The design of the Dream was considered to be solid and robust; Joshua Topolsky of Engadget considered its hardware design a contrast to that of the iPhone, due to its numerous navigation buttons (in comparison to just a home button) and its "charming, retro-future look; like a gadget in a 1970's sci-fi movie set in the year 2038."

Inspector Gadget: Mission 1 – Global Terror!

Inspector Gadget: Mission 1 – Global Terror! is an graphic adventure game based on the animated television series Inspector Gadget and released for DOS in 1992.

Ko Young-Min

His nicknames are "Kodget" (it was made of his family name Ko and a character Gadget who can do everything) and "outer second baseman" (his defensive position is wider than any other second basemen).

Lighter

In August 2011 Stephen Fry chose the lighter as the greatest gadget in his Channel 4 programme Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets, one of the 100 Greatest strand, describing it as "fire with a flick of the fingers".

Merryweather

George Merryweather (1794–1870), English inventor of the tempest prognosticator, a leech-based weather predicting gadget

Michael Acton Smith

In 1998 whilst in his early twenties, Smith co-founded online gadget and gift retailer Firebox.com with university friend Tom Boardman.

PhpChess

phpChess brings the following capabilities to its customers: Realtime chess gameplay, correspondence chess games, Game chat, Life chatroom, messaging framework, move validation (professional version only), Gadget support for Microsoft Vista, Yahoo Widget support, Java mobile phone client support, PC Software support, web messaging (XML based), Tournament management and others.

Poison pen letter

In the James Bond film Octopussy, Bond (Roger Moore) jokes that a new gadget, a pen with acidic ink, is "perfect for writing poison pen letters."

Sony NW-A810

Crave, the CNET gadget blog, named the NW-A810 series as one of the MP3 players that shaped year 2007, with another three, the Zune 80, iPod touch, and the ZEN.

The Gadget Show

This was until a new set was introduced and the studio was then moved to inside The Gadget Show's offices located inside North One Television in Digbeth.


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