A gadget is a small technological object such as a device or an appliance that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty.

Gadget may also refer to:

Media

  • Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure, also known as Gadget: Past as Future, a 1993 videogame
  • The Gadget (novel), a 2001 young-adult novel by Paul Zindel

Characters

  • GADGET, a robot character in the Doctor Who episode "The Waters of Mars"
  • Gadget, a fictional robot from the Suikoden series of video games
  • Gadget Hackwrench, a young female mouse from the TV series Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
  • Gadgets, a series of machine-type monsters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
  • Gary "Gadget" Flowers, a character in the This Is England series of films
  • Inspector Gadget, the titular character of the animated series of the same name

People

  • Fad Gadget (born 1956), British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist
  • Little Nobody (also Funk Gadget), Australian musician and writer
  • Next Time Gadget (born 1980), American electronic musician
  • Reverend Gadget, steel fabrication artist, craftsman, prop builder, and television personality

Science

  • "The Gadget" was the code name given to the first atomic bomb/device detonated at the "Trinity" nuclear test in July 1945

Technology

  • GADGET, a free software for cosmological N-body/SPH simulations
  • Gadget (computer science), a subset of a problem instance
  • Gadget (machine instruction sequence), a sequence of computer instructions used in security exploit techniques
  • Google Gadgets, dynamic web content that can be embedded on a web page
  • Microsoft Gadgets, lightweight single-purpose applications

See also

  • Gizmo (disambiguation)
  • Widget (disambiguation)