| We live in a pretty cool world with a lot of | | | | across a new kind of watch that is essentially a |
| developmental progress in technology. Some of the | | | | computer on your wrist. With this watch you can do |
| different gadgets people come up with can be so neat | | | | everything from checking you email to surfing the |
| and beneficial to our economy. Today, there are more | | | | internet. |
| gadgets than ever. A gadget is defined as any kind of | | | | Another kind of gadget many people like is binoculars |
| device, particularly a mechanical device. In today's | | | | and night vision devices. We all know what binoculars |
| world many different kinds of electronic devices are | | | | do, but today there has been much advancement that |
| also considered gadgets. | | | | make them more than just devices for viewing |
| As stated above, there are so many different kinds of | | | | objects at a distance. For example, some binoculars |
| gadgets, and more are invented every day. Some can | | | | have range finding capabilities, are waterproof, are |
| be very unique and irrelevant to most people, but other | | | | much more compact, have automatic focusing |
| kinds of gadgets can play a very important role in the | | | | features, and some will even let you take a picture of |
| progress of our societies. Even for those kinds of | | | | the distant image you are viewing as it appears up |
| gadgets that don't necessarily benefit people as a | | | | close through your binoculars. |
| whole, some can be beneficial to individuals based on | | | | Night vision goggles, scopes, binoculars, and monocular |
| their need for that particular item. | | | | devices are capable of illuminating completely dark |
| One of my favorite kinds of gadgets is watches. Not | | | | areas and objects without the aid of visible light. This is |
| just plain old normal watches, but the kinds of watches | | | | mainly done through infrared light which is not visible to |
| that do something other than tell time. For example, | | | | the human eye. Night vision devices have the |
| there are watches that can: tell you your heart rate, | | | | capabilities to "see" that invisible light and that is what |
| how many steps you've taken, calculate distances, | | | | allows you to see objects in the dark that the infrared |
| barometric pressures, elevation, external temperatures, | | | | light is shining on. These gadgets have long been used |
| give you direction from a built in compass and so forth. | | | | by the military and can view objects and areas in the |
| Today, many watches are becoming solar powered | | | | dark with incredible clarity. They have recently become |
| and increasing in their abilities to perform under water | | | | available to the public at affordable prices. Although |
| etc. In addition, some watches have built in laser | | | | they are not as good of quality as military grade night |
| pointers, cameras, voice recording capabilities, and | | | | vision devices, these night vision gadgets available to |
| even telecommunication functions. Recently, I came | | | | the public are still quite impressive. |