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, the code name given to the first bomb tested as part of the Trinity nuclear test
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)