Angelina Jolie and Maddox Pick Out an iPod Touch at the LA Apple Store

How Old Were You When You Got Your First Real Gadget?

January 14, 2010

Angelina Jolie was spotted cruising the aisles at the LA Apple store earlier this week with her family in tow. Her children Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh kept busy on the computers while Angelina helped Maddox pick out an iPod Touch. Maddox is a lucky little dude for getting such a grown-up (and pricey) gadget at the age of 8, but of course kids are so immersed in technology now, getting an iPod Touch at his age may be the equivalent to me getting a Gameboy for good behavior. Do you remember how old you were when you got your first real gadget? What did you get?

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2 years 45 weeks

hmmm... isn't it relevant what year it was, besides what your age was? I guess I was 8 when my uncle gave me and my liddl bruvva a computer. We both loved the snake game. It worked on cassettes (yes, much like the ones we put in our walkman) - hey, it was the early 80's!

blossommac 3 years 17 weeks

first recorder with bright colors 6, my Walkman 14 , disc man 17 and laptop 15 cellphone 18 during my year abroad

3 years 18 weeks

A Speak&Spell from Texas Instruments at maybe 5 and a tape recorder around the same time.

kristinaeliza 3 years 18 weeks

My parents bought me a N64 for my 6th birthday; before that I used their Sega Genesis haha.

3 years 18 weeks

nintendo64 when i was like 7 and a walkman a computer when i was 11.

CoralAmber 3 years 18 weeks

I'm not sure what counts as a gadget either. I got a radio when I was 10 (I wanted a tape player) and a nintendo. I probably got a discman around 13/14. A piddly personal organizer at 17. I was 20 when I get tricked into getting a "free" cell phone that ended up costing me hundreds of dollars. So I didn't try one again until I was 23. Around then I got my first laptop for college.

FreakingMuse 3 years 18 weeks

A strange learning-laptops when I was 5... I don't know if it counts as a gadget. You could "play" educational games including spelling or math. Oh joy ;)

nonmr 3 years 18 weeks

I got a V-Tech "laptop" for kids which had those spelling games when I was 6 or 7 y/o, not totally sure :D

elizabethsosewn 3 years 18 weeks

I got (and shared with my sisters) an N64 at like... 9? but me personally, I got a game boy advanced at 12.

sucre en poudre 3 years 18 weeks

I got a walkman at 7 :)

RoaringSilence 3 years 18 weeks

The first thing I got for myself was a discman when I was 14 or so, and the first thing I ever got from my parents was a laptop when I graduated high school.

mallorycurtis 3 years 18 weeks

i didn't get a cell phone until i was 18 and leaving for college, and i never really had a gameboy but i used my sister's a lot. i guess i was technologically deprived! reading and drawing were more my style anyway.

Baby Girl 3 years 18 weeks

I had an Atari 2600. We got pitfall and I was so happy when I beat it and pissed that nothing happened after you beat the game - you just kept going. I was around 7. I also had table top Pac Man and Galaga around the same time. Ahh a gamer was born!

3 years 18 weeks

Er that's age 2ish, silly blackberry...

3 years 18 weeks

Would you consider an electronic game console a gadget? If so, my first was Alphie, the educational robot, she 2ish

rach716 3 years 18 weeks

I had the original Nintendo & the original Game Boy when I was around 5 years old. I still have both & they still work also!!!

KadBunny 3 years 18 weeks

Hee, technically? Maybe 5 or 6 if you count those V-Tech Dictionaries from the 90s. :P I loved it to death. But officially I'd say 9! My brother had a Gameboy Light, but since the Gameboy Color came out shortly after he handed it down to me! :) Ahh good times

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