CNN/Money’s Gordon T. Anderson has named the iPod as an invention that changes your life without you giving much attention to it. In 5 Inventions to change your life, he named the iPod along with the Screwpull corkscrew, the Sonicare toothbrush, E-Z Pass, and TiVo as his five little big ideas. About the iPod, he says:
So how did the iPod — which is, essentially, just an update of the long-forgotten Walkman — capture about 70 percent of its market, and turn once-fading Apple Computer into the hottest company in Silicon Valley? Only by being brilliant in every way.
Now, I walk for blocks each day through Manhattan with those signature white earbuds firmly in place. Seemingly every other pedestrian I pass, or nearly so, does the same thing.
It’s a little big idea that changed my life — and set it to music.
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