A gadget is an application users could participate with, many of which are built on Google s OpenSocial platform.

On August 31, news broke that Egypt had arrested a spy duck, with a suspicious gadget attached to its feathers.

For example, a wave might include a sudoku gadget that lets the wave participants compete to see who can solve the puzzle first.

by Christian PantonA screenshot of the Election ButtonAnother popular gadget, the Election Button (valgknappen.dk) , was created by a computer science student Christian Panton earlier this week.

A clever new gadget was described in a newspaper a few weeks ago. It pulls water out of the atmosphere and delivers you a glass of clean, chilled H2O.

Contraceptives, cosmetics and brain reprogramming techniques that sounds ominous, but the distinction between what is a technology a gadget would be the archetype and other ways of changing and rewriting human nature is quite subtle.