What do you have to be thankful for? When Thanksgiving comes around every year, it makes us start thinking about all that is good in the gadget world. The Gizmodo team got together this morning and started blurting out stuff, all the (mostly) gadget-related things that we're glad to have around. The result is this long—but by no means comprehensive or in order of preference—list of all we're thankful for. Please, feel free to add anything we've missed, and Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
1. Giz readers
2. iPhone
3. HDTV
4. MacBook Pro
5. TiVo Series 3
6. Sirius Satellite Radio
7. Google Maps
8. Amazon Unbox
9. Netflix
10. My wife
11. The Mac
12. My iPod
13. Blu-ray
14. HD DVD
15. Vibrators
16. The banhammer
17. Steve Ballmer, making Apple's job easy
18. EV-DO
19. Body Bouncer
20. Buddha Machine
21. CFL Bulbs at 2700K, instant-on
22. Audiophiles
23. Podcasts
24. Wireless anything
25. Wi-Fi
26. Wikipedia
27. Rock Band
28. Boeing 787
29. Skype
30. Halo 3
31. 1080p
32. Quad-core processors
33. Interns
34. StumblePorn
35. Blu-ray/HD DVD combo players
36. RSS
37. Rolex
38. Electric cars
39. Digg
40. Bacon of the Month Club
41. Wired
42. Vibrating alarms
43. Carbon fiber guitars
44. Wind turbines
45. Streaming Wi-Fi music
46. YouTube
47. Firefox extensions for easy video theft
48. 30-inch monitors
49. Windows XP
50. Boobies & butts
51. Home theater seats
52. Dive computers
53. Engadget, keeping us competitive
54. Books
55. Xbox 360
56. Gears of War
57. GPS
58. Wireless weather stations
59. USB humping dogs
60. Klipsch speakers
61. Self-driving robotic cars
62. Automatic shotguns
63. Webcams
64. Atomic clocks
65. Quicken
66. Flickr
67. Powersquid
68. Nikon D80
69. Speech recognition
70. Solar panels
71. 1080p projectors
72. Aeron chairs
73. Logitech Harmony remotes
74. Our moms
75. HD camcorders
76. Nissan stainless thermal coffee mug
77. Internet-controlled thermostats
78. DRM-free iTunes songs
79. Anything R/C
80. Carbon fiber and titanium
81. Flight simulators
82. Broadband, 50 down/20 up
83. Electric razors
84. Bedrooms on airliners
85. Garmin Forerunner
86. LEDs
87. Volcano Digit
88. Solid-state hard drives
89. Flying cars
90. The Burj Dubai (word's tallest building)
91. Amazon Kindle
92. Steampunk
93. Microsoft mice and keyboards
94. HDMI
95. Bunn coffeemakers
96. Mars exploration rovers
97. Turkey deep fryer
98. Montblanc pens
99. Our dads
100. Thanksgiving









Comments
Lets get the obligatory "You guys are Apple fanboys" post out of the way.
You guys are Apple fanboys!!!111!
Just kidding. Honestly I'm thankful for Gizmodo. My work day wouldn't be the same with out you guys. I'd probably be much more productive though.......... BACK TO WORK.
I'm thankful that I don't have a really good reason to commit suicide.... besides this really slow ass laptop.
101. nutbastard (?)
Oh.... and that the PS3 is getting DIVx!1
I'm thankful that the PS3 is getting a flux capacitor hottie generator.
YAY Apple Fanboys!!!
1. My wife, without whom all these items I'm so thankful for would be rendered in twain.
Love ya honey!
2. My life in general. I've been fortunate.
3-100 TOYS: Those in my possession and all those that are destined to be.
101. Oh yeah, and nutbastard.
Ultraportable MBP rumors!
I like how my wife gets linked to build your own sex doll.
@strider_mt2k: you are gonna make my cry. LOL.
@MACPollo: Yeah, mentioning nutbastard WAS a bad idea.
Sorry everyone.
Sorry!
@strider_mt2k: everyone loves to hate someone :P
If you didn't have the amazingness of the 787 on there I would go on a vicious rage at the lack of Wii on that list.
Also, ironic you have the iPhone and EVDO
I am grateful at almost every moment for something or other. For example, right now I'm grateful to Jesus Diaz for not sticking 1/2 hard boiled eggs or fancy pimento-stuffed green olives as eyes into that sleeping thing with the first gen iPod lobotamy.
Thanks Jesus!
102. Hello Kitty?
What about Wii?
And although "Boobies and Butts" maybe considered part of this categorie what about CES and other Model Girls
Isn't being thankful for Thanksgiving a bit of a cop-out?
#40 made me sneeze my drink through my nose.
@rndmideas: hahaha truly fanboys! Look there, so many Apple products! LEDs are fine. We are in the LED generation.
Of course there are so many Apple product... They are the best. Why drive a Kia, when you can roll in a Bently...
I think the wife at number 10 is a bit high. Should they be on the list?
And number 91? Jesus, don't you read your own posts?
#101 Hot Fudge Sundays!
Happy Turkey Day!
I have some more...
101. Hot Doll, the sex doll for dogs
102. Zune 2
103. My Chopsticks Bra
104. PSP Slim
105. New Nissan GT-R
106. GPhone - Android
Can anyone continue? Happy Thanksgiving every one!
107. FSJ
108. Guys who give away free beer for life if you find their stolen laptop
109. Beer
110. Google, just in general
111. NSFW
ahem.. 0. Vista
come on guys :P
@scarab: here here
how about your loyal readers, you ungrateful turds... :-)
-avi
wait...that was item 1!
sorry
-avi
By the way - Giz - you guys did a GREAT job with all the links in that List. Thanks!
Klipsch? Klipsch? What the heck ... those over priced, overly bright awful speakers? If you want to find some good speakers that are very competitively priced, walk into your local Paradigm dealer and sample ... ANY ... of their speakers.
I'm thankful for the new Doctor Who series. Those episodes were getting kind of stale.
That and "Crunch and Munch."
T&A down at #50? Where's the Gizmodo I know?
1080p and HDTV kinda are the same
@EMoShunz:
thats what im here for
@nutbastard: at least you have a sense of humour. i haven't figured out who i love to hate yet, here, at work it's completely obvious.
i love wikipedia, i dont care what my university lecturers say, its actually quite a good source for chemistry information. Youtube is awesome as well. So are audiophiles, i get endless hours of amusement reading about how stupid they are. Amazon kindle...wth.
I cooked my turkey upside down.
:(
Well I'm a Canadian, and we already HAD our Thanksgiving -- you know, back when you could still be thankful that it wasn't Winter yet -- but all the same, I gotta say that I'm thankful for nutbastard, Strider, Emoshunz, 92BuickLeSabre, Mayor McCheese, SchruteBuck (hwa?), NZRuss -- heck, even xxxxxxx -- when he's not being a total downer about the state of the US economy. And everybody else!
Thanks for the smiles,
@Mandatory_Field:
You clearly haven't been in the southern half of the US. Sunny and 70 degrees for us here in North Carolina.
Come on guys, don't lie. We all know that you really wanted to have #1 and 2 swapped but didn't want to backlash it would cause.
Some of those were pretty funny though.
I was upto item 5 when i noticed that these were just a collection of ur tags....is it april fool's already???
You should be thankful for the Creative Zen because if it hadn't been for Creative, their wouldn't be an iPod. Creative invented the iPod's interface and patent it, which Apple stole for use in the iPod.
The Zen players are better the iPod.
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