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Released:
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Origin:
Groningen, Netherlands
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Dutch:

Een hebbeding, gadget of gizmo is een vernieuwend en slim ontworpen artikel, vaak binnen de consumentenelektronica. De gebruikte technologie of het ontwerp is vaak zo vernuftig en vernieuwend in de ogen van de geïnteresseerde of wordt als zodanig gepresenteerd dat het voor consumenten aantrekkelijk wordt gemaakt om het aan te schaffen. Soms gaat het om iets hoogtechnologisch dat door een zogenaamde trendsetter aangekocht wordt als statussymbool. Ook de aanwezigheid van speciale functies ("snufjes") verhoogt de aantrekkelijkheid. De term gadget wordt ook gebruikt om kleine softwareapplicaties met een bepaalde functie mee aan te duiden. Dure auto's zoals Ferrari's of Porsches, of andere zaken die een modale werknemer niet kan betalen worden, hoewel ze begerenswaardig zijn meestal niet als hebbeding bestempeld, ook omdat het begrip een begrenzing van het formaat in zich draagt.

English:

The origins of the word "gadget" trace back to the 19th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal evidence for the use of "gadget" as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown's 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy’s log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper containing the earliest known usage in print. The etymology of the word is disputed.

A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was "invented" when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repoussé construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after their firm; however this contradicts the evidence that the word was already used before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular, at least in the USA, until after World War I.] Other sources cite a derivation from the French gâchette which has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or the French gagée, a small tool or accessory.

(From: Wikipedia)

Now it wants to end up in a cache called borzl & Furcas, somewhere  in the neighbourhood of Delfzijl, Groningen, the Netherlands.

 

 

 

 

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    Tracking History (16804.8mi) View Map

    Mark Missing 11/1/2015 borzl marked it as missing   Visit Log

    The owner has set this Trackable as missing.

    Write note 4/7/2015 geryXman posted a note for it   Visit Log

    Schade aber leider Endet die Reise hier. Mein Cache wurde leider inkl. deinem Geocoin gemuggelt.

    Dropped Off 1/17/2015 Don.Ado placed it in Bruckmühl Oberösterreich, Austria - 5.32 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/17/2015 Don.Ado retrieved it from There's a party Oberösterreich, Austria   Visit Log

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    Discovered It 1/17/2015 Don.Ado discovered it   Visit Log

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    Dropped Off 12/6/2014 Ant Z placed it in There's a party Oberösterreich, Austria - 145.52 miles  Visit Log
    Discovered It 11/23/2014 Qualiflyer discovered it   Visit Log

    Thanks for showing!

    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/23/2014 Ant Z retrieved it from "da Neiche" - most(4tel)krug 1 Niederösterreich, Austria   Visit Log

    Nice Car! 🙂 Found it on an also nice hike!

    Dropped Off 10/19/2014 most4tel placed it in "da Neiche" - most(4tel)krug 1 Niederösterreich, Austria - 114.48 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/2/2014 most4tel retrieved it from Pozor! Štátna hranica. Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia   Visit Log

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