Often one and the same device performs a great variety of functions, this circumstance allows referring it to more than one gadget classes.
Classification of gadgetsįollowing the technologic advances of last decades, lots of gadgets designed for various tasks appear. The main thing here is to understand that any gadget is a device, but not each device is a gadget. Often it is hard to differentiate these two notions, as their meaning are very similar. But, for example, a gaming joystick or helicopter for a camera, they are gadgets. Thus, a personal computer and video camera are devices. It is important not to confuse the true meanings of the words “gadget” and “ device”.ĭevice is an item or instrument used to do certain work or/and achieve a certain result. 'Gadget is a technical device (including digital technologies) with enhanced functionality and limited possibilities'. To begin with, let’s try to make clear the word “gadget” itself. Let’s try to put in good order all types and subtypes of gadgets known to us, making a sort of classification. There are thousands of gadgets with various functions and methods of use. What functions? The answer may be extended. “A smart device performing certain functions”. Surely, nowadays everybody knows what a gadget is.
