Friday, June 25, 2010

What is a Widget?

When I was in college many years ago and was forced to take an economics course the professor used the term widget. He used it often. I came to learn that a widget is a nondescript term used to mean a manufactured item. So instead of saying that ACME made rocket packs (you know the ones Wiley Coyote used to chase Road Runner). He would say that ACME made widgets (and I would imagine rocket packs).
Guiness Beer had their own form of a widget. This widget was put into their beer cans to help produce the well proportioned head that is associated with their beer. This picture is from the link below.


Other forms and uses of the widget are located here on Wikipedia.

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