gizmo

Or one of those fidget gizmo things that stores sell in the checkout line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Vivoo makes a urine-analysing gizmo that sits on the rim of a toilet bowl, promising to help you understand your hydration "like never before".

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

De Jaen crouches to fiddle with alligator clips and bits of wire, as well as six 100-watt light bulbs and a purple gizmo that looks like an electric waffle iron designed for children.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

At first, I was blinded by the novelty of the $269 solar-roofed gizmo, which arrived on my doorstep last fall as a gift from my father-in-law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

Hey, Paine, can you take a bath with that ankle gizmo, or would you get all electrocuted?”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

Makers of sensors and other gizmos inside the iPhone are winning new business from AI companies such as OpenAI that are developing their own hardware.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

In other cases, the industrious gizmos recline in circulating baths of fluid, which ferries away the heat they generate, enabling them to function at very high speeds, known as "overclocking".

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025

And while claw gizmos and plastic figurines aren’t my thing, I understand their popularity and wouldn’t mind their presence if there was a greater supply of old-school games, and perhaps some pinball machines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

Google instead wants to blitz you with buggy new gizmos whose basic functionalities lack everything that made Google an empire, a verb, a dependable custodian of the information superhighway.

From Slate ● May 16, 2024

Grandma says, “We don’t need more gizmos and gadgets. Oh, such waste of money.”

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor