A TV? An iPhone? Those are weak. Everyone has those! Who wants something that everyone has? That's barely a "gadget", when you think about it. When I think of the word "gadget", I think of a nifty doodad that nobody else seems to have. A contraption that people don't understand or know how to use. A conundrum of a piece of machinery that is as much a conversation piece as it is a product. What I'm looking for is, well, the coolest gadget around. Where can I find the COOLEST gadgets?

One day, thinking this very thing, I typed in "coolest gadgets" into the magic internet box machine. Sure enough, there's a site called "coolest-gadgets.com", which reviews cool li'l gadgets and links you to the sites on which they're sold.

I've seen many a gadget there in my day, but one of the cooler ones I saw was a small globe that, with the help of magnets, stays afloat in mid-air. STAYS AFLOAT! That's like the future... today! So naturally I never bought it because it was like $80 and I'm too cheap to blow that on a little globe that will be out of date in 30 years when the ice caps melt and flood the coasts. Actually, since that's where I live, I guess it won't matter anyways.

So considering that, I guess the TOP gadget on my wish list would be a jetpack. Somewhat uninspired, yeah, but... it's a friggin' jetpack! I could escape my flooding home by busting through the roof, carrying my friends with me as I go! Or maybe just me because I'm angry at them for deleting the latest episode of Lost off the DVR before I got to watch it, whatever. The POINT is, the option to save them is there. And even if there ISN'T a flood, I can jet around and fly to the top of buildings, and overlook the city all badass and squinting angrily like Batman. Kind of off topic, did anyone ever notice how pissed off Batman looks while standing on buildings while patrolling, even when there's nothing to be mad about? It's like, guy, calm down. You get to leap across rooftops.

Wait, what the hell was I talking about?

Oh yeah, jetpack. Yeah that's my top choice. But the globe works as well. And I wouldn't mind some kind of cool different clock either. Point is, it's got to be something so gadget-y and out there that it blurs the line between reality and fantasy, and separates me from the whole "I have an iPhone so I'm a wicked gadget-head!" crowd.