Here’s a great article - the 50 greatest gadgets since 1950, with pictures. You’ve got the first remote control, first portable phone (a brick), first stylish cell phone (the Star-Tac) The Sony Walkman, and one of the ultimate time wasters of my adolescence: The Commodore 64 computer! This will give younger readers a good perspective on where we’ve come from, and the old timers a pleasant bit of nostalgia.