Best Tech Of The Decade: The 14 Greatest Gadgets From 2000-2010

As we wave good-bye to the first decade of the 21st century, we decided to take a look back at the gadgets that changed the way we talked, worked, played, cleaned and traveled.

We've compiled a list of tech that rocked our world from the year 2000 to the present day. Take a look through the slideshow (below) and vote for the best gadget of the decade. In the comments, tell us how you think these gadgets will continue to affect us in the future.

Seen any gadgets that should have made the list? Email us at technology [at] huffingtonpost.com, or upload your picks using the "Add a Slide" tool.

 

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A smash hit since its unveiling in 2007, the iPhone arguably set the standard for smartphones that followed and has become a cultural fixture. The device's 300,000 available applications make it a phone, a personal assistant, an MP3 player, a gaming console, a cookbook, a social networking hub and more.

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A smash hit since its unveiling in 2007, the iPhone arguably set the standard for smartphones that followed and has become a cultural fixture. The device's 300,000 available applications make it a phone, a personal assistant, an MP3 player, a gaming console, a cookbook, a social networking hub and more.

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[poaster]

10:43 AM on 12/24/2010

I don't think I could part with my Keurig single serve coffeemaker. The days of pouring out old coffee are over.

[Amadahy]

05:38 PM on 12/22/2010

I would've included:

-Multi-core processors
-SATA harddrives
-Bluetooth headsets

but I guess the sales of these devices, which certainly trounce those of even the iPod which I love, don't qualify as influential.

[mjk2007]

11:18 AM on 12/21/2010

Kinect over Wii???

Kinect (and the entire motion gaming movement) wouldn't even exist if not for the Wii. Kinect has barely even gotten off the ground yet, has few games built for it, while Wii has been out for four years and has something close to 80 million sold.

Wii expanded the video game console market to vast new markets, while Kinect is essentially potential at this point.

It's a mystifying selection to me. Wii is easily the biggest story in video gaming over the past decade

[Matt Jacobs]

06:25 PM on 12/21/2010

I agree. The Kinect is impressive technology, and will probably sell well, but the Wii proved that motion gaming could not only work, but be hugely successful. The Kinect has not been proven to be a game-changer yet.

Choosing the Kinect over the Wii just goes to show this list is intended to be a PR puff piece, not a serious list.

[Rena Lanford]

07:06 PM on 12/21/2010

Looks like they accepted the Wii slide I submitted, so bollocks to the idea of the Wii not being on the list. :D

[Bianca Bosker]

10:55 PM on 12/21/2010

Thanks for the submission

[Chip W]

07:16 AM on 12/21/2010

I'm still waiting for the Orgasmatron.

[burningman57]

06:29 AM on 12/21/2010

my experience with my iphone is that it sucks as a phone. it drops more than half my calls every day. att has more dead spots in the washington, dc metro area than one would imagine. so, while a very cool device, if you just want a good phone, don't get one.

[LastTexasRose]

01:32 AM on 12/21/2010

The USB drive was so strange looking in the photo for this story that I had to come over and take a peek to see what it was.
How much of a market is there for a USB drive that looks like fish egg sushi?

[Rena Lanford]

07:09 PM on 12/21/2010

It's only a step away from the Chocolate MicroChip dreamed up in The Jetsons...

[Rena Lanford]

12:44 AM on 12/21/2010

We haven't even seen much application of Kinect, and the Wii has years on it, in addition to a wider variety of uses with its peripherals. So lolwut on that one.

[MichaelAKD]

12:33 AM on 12/21/2010

dvr aka tivo saved my sanity during the election and considering how things are trending i cannot imagine powering up any television in the future without a dvr attached to fast forward through all the political back and forth and on and on and i am not a witch...

[MikeyJaii]

11:21 PM on 12/20/2010

Only thing that actually influenced my life was a new high-tech cellphone and a more powerful efficient P.C. That's it.

[MichaelAKD]

12:44 AM on 12/21/2010

i agree on the cellphone, i had my first brick back in the early 90's and it made a substantial impact on my day to day. i remember my giant palm phone in 2000 and how great it ws to be able to go online then long before anyone else. however having had a cell phone attached at my hip for almost two decades i now am going the other extreme in terms of use. i rarely use it, sometimes going a week without powering it up, don't need to. don't need to be available to everyone every moment of every day. when i go fishing or camping or on vacation, i want to get away from it all not bring it with me. if i go out to eat or to the show the phone is in the car and off. i like not being so easy to get hold of. so i have gone from the extreme of literally never turning my phone off to the polar opposite. tech is good in many ways don't get me wrong but we have allowed it to become far too intrusive in our day to day lives. you have to slow down to enjoy life and remember tech is a tool, a means to an end not an end in and of itself.

[LinkSync]

07:19 PM on 12/20/2010

Whoever made this list has their head way up where the sun doesn't shine.
There have to be forty eight things way more important just in the Medical Field that are Tech Based.
Now think about Military stuff and space exploration and DEEP OCEAN stuff....

And what do we get from this "person" who made a little list?
And I-phone....

LOL

[howitis]

06:17 PM on 12/20/2010

very odd list. the nook? portable wifi?

what happened to the kindle? netbooks? led lights?

so many of the tech from this "decade" in this list is from the last year or two.

[cgcat93]

06:04 PM on 12/20/2010

This list seems like it was compiled by my grandmother. Notice the picture of the iPhone in the iPod slide, too.

[THecken]

05:59 PM on 12/20/2010

iPad aaaand Nook?...
Kinect?.. Over Wii?
I think HP just put down the first 13 things they could think of.

[fgbouman]

05:10 PM on 12/20/2010

That's the current decade's list? It all seems so old. Obviously a lot of us are dealing with accelerating change just fine. Things have come a fair distance during my lifetime... I can remember the horse drawn ice wagon and the ice man carrying those big blocks of ice for the icebox. Can't wait for the Singularity to arrive.

[DRaymond]

04:35 PM on 12/20/2010

The list comes from somebody with a short memory and a real imfatuation with all things Apple.  I mean separate entries for the iPhone, the iPod and the iPad?
 
Part of the problem is that a great many technological breakthoughs are themselves seeming somewhat outdated at this time.
 
For example blu-ray winning out over HD-DVD was a big tech event in the last decade, but is it already being supplanted by streaming.  Broadcast TV finally being converted to all-digital was another big story.  The Wii was huge for a while, but the Wii has now fallen sharply.