Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

[HEXUS]

Let's hear it, which old gadgets do you refuse to let go of?

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[brasco]

I'm no hoarder, in fact, I'm quite brutal with older gadgets, if it takes up space it's out.
So with that in mind, I think (no joke) my old iPhone 3GS which I use soley as a vessel for iPlayer

[ajones]

But mini-disc IS the future....

[Shooty*]

I loved Mini-disc. What wasn't to like? CD-size storage in a protected medium. It was ace.

I was in a hospital the other day, and delighted to see that they carried out checks and audits with HP iPaqs. I used to love my iPaq. (as an aside, have apple ever sued HP for using the i? Not that I want to give them ideas...).

So... anyway... the oldest gadget I still use... interesting one... And, indeed, thinking philosophically, the question has highlighted a dependance upon gadgets that I hadn't properly considered before.

Porbably my 80gb Ipod, which is one of the ones with a wheel and a little screen. 3rd gen? Or my kindle, which is a keyboard one, and which my kids get terribly confused about coz you can't swipe the screen.

[crossy]

Porbably my 80gb Ipod, which is one of the ones with a wheel and a little screen. 3rd gen? Or my kindle, which is a keyboard one, and which my kids get terribly confused about coz you can't swipe the screen.

Ditto here - iPod Video 5th Gen. Sound quality is head and shoulders better than the cut-down iPhones that Apple punt these days.

Nokia 770 still gets a whirl every so often, and my windows PC still has a cassette tape drive in it - to get my old C90's converted into MP3s.

Shame this question wasn't asked last year - then I could have said "Palm Tungsten T3" - unfortunately I got B-Folders on my S3, so didn't need the old T3 for encrypted password storage any more.

[JSanders]

apple i. can't do much stuff though...

[Percy1983]

I still use a hp ipaq, mostly for satnav but it does have tomb raider installed too.

Past that I would say its my nintendo ds lite, still going strong.

[atomictom]

I think my nintendo SP. Haven't seen anything that makes me wanna buy any of the newer ones.

Though even older is my oregon scientific clock with a projector if you count that as a gadget, bit glitchy every now and then but still going strong.

[abaxas]

Not really sure it counts... but I have my grandma's old roberts radio from the 70's.

Long may it live in the kitchen.

[Brewster0101]

My wife is 27 years old, I've had her a number of those years - does that count as a gadget?

Woohoo - 2000th post - need a life!

[Funkstar]

I'm honestly not sure what my oldest still used gadget is. Might be one of my Canon lenses, or perhaps one of my Dell 24" monitors which pre-date my desktop by a couple of years.

I've got boxes of much older stuff, but none of it gets used and really is over due to be cleared out. Pentium Pro motherboard anyone?

[Obscurity]

PSP first generation. I have a lot of films on it and it goes everywhere with me

[OilSheikh]

17" Samsung monitor!

[hiyayhi]

For me it would have to be the apple laptop I use on a day to day basis. It's one of the original macbooks (not a pro, a white one). The battery is dead, it can't run youtube without lagging (not buffering) but I can't be bothered getting a new one + it would cost too much.

[deejayburnout]

still using my 160GB iPod classic as it plugs into my headunit and works brilliant.

Don't use it with iTunes though.

[Bunjiweb]

Are PC Surround-sound speakers classed as a gadget? If so then my Creative Inspire 5300 speakers have been providing my PC's audio since 1999.

Other than that, probably my SNes (originally purchased 1993) which still gets occasional use..