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In the battle of the ’busters, the WIRED<br />
set sides with cleanliness (61 percent)<br />
over lawlessness (39 percent).<br />
Apple iPod<br />
Sony Walkman The<br />
only way you really<br />
took your music with<br />
you in the pre-Walkman<br />
days was in your car,<br />
often with an 8-track<br />
tape. Thank you,<br />
Sony, for this batterypowered<br />
tape deck.<br />
Atari 2600 With hundreds<br />
of titles available,<br />
there was no shortage<br />
of entertainment<br />
options on this influential<br />
early console. Sure,<br />
all the games were awful,<br />
but you didn’t know<br />
that at the time.<br />
BIC Cristal<br />
Don’t mess with Duck<br />
Hunt: The NES tromps the<br />
PS2 by a 3-to-1 margin.<br />
RCA CT-100<br />
Victorinox Swiss Army<br />
Knife Guess what?<br />
Victorinox really does sell<br />
knives to the Swiss,<br />
and they really do have<br />
an army. Today the<br />
company offers more<br />
than 100 products.<br />
USR Pilot 1000 PDA<br />
Palm didn’t create<br />
the PDA category, but<br />
it owned it with this<br />
cheap and brainlessly<br />
simple device—used by<br />
most people to store<br />
phone numbers and<br />
play solitaire.<br />
AK-47<br />
Apple iPod<br />
BIC Cristal BIC calls its ubiquitous seethrough<br />
ballpoint pen “a world-renowned<br />
classic.” The mass-produced implement<br />
is in the permanent collection of the<br />
Museum of Modern Art, and more than<br />
1 billion ballpoints have been sold.<br />
The Leatherman may actually have<br />
done more, but Everyman fave Swiss<br />
Army Knife is not to be trifled with.<br />
Kill your television? Voters<br />
say they’d rather be watching<br />
Heroes, by a 3-to-1 margin.<br />
RCA CT-100<br />
AK-47 Cheap, with debatable accuracy, this<br />
Soviet automatic rifle was an Eastern<br />
European standard of the Cold War and has<br />
become the weapon of choice for modern<br />
juntas, coups, jihads, and puppet regimes,<br />
with hundreds of millions likely produced.<br />
A paper-thin 27-vote margin gives the<br />
BIC a last-minute win over the Atari<br />
2600 in the tourney’s closest contest.<br />
Apple iPod Before iPod, most MP3<br />
players sucked. After iPod, most<br />
MP3 players still suck. Which is why<br />
you probably own one of Apple’s.<br />
RCA CT-100 RCA led the world into the<br />
glorious age of color TV. Surviving CT-100s,<br />
which were powered by 36 vacuum<br />
tubes, are now prized collectors’ items.<br />
RCA CT-100
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