Gizmo is a placeholder name for any small technological item. Compare gadget, widget, thingamajig, and blobject. It has been suggested that Metasyntactic variable be merged into this article or section. ... An Apple iPod, a popular gadget A gadget or gazza is a device that has a useful specific practical purpose and function. ... Widget is a general-purpose term, or placeholder name, for any unspecified device, including those that have not yet been invented. ... A placeholder name occupies a syntactic space between nouns and pronouns. ... A Blobject is most often a colorful, mass-produced, plastic-based, emotionally engaging consumer product with a curvilinear, flowing shape. ...

Gizmo may refer specifically to:

In technology:

• The Gizmo or "Gizmotron", an effect unit for the electric guitar
• The Gizmo key, a key found on certain flutes
• Gizmo Project, a peer-to-peer Internet telephony and instant messaging software application
• Gizmondo, a handheld gaming console
• Gizmo, an OpenGL compiler to use in Wavemetrics IGOR Pro software

In sports: The Gizmo was an effects device for the electric guitar, invented ca. ... Gizmo key is a key commonly found on the B foot joint of certain models of flute that closes the low B tone hole. ... Gizmo Project is the name of a peer-to-peer VoIP network and of a proprietary freeware soft phone for that network. ... The Gizmondo is a handheld gaming console with GPRS and GPS technology, which was manufactured by Tiger Telematics. ... OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a standard specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 3D computer graphics (and 2D computer graphics as well). ... A diagram of the operation of a typical multi-language, multi-target compiler. ... IGOR Pro is a software software package for scientific data analysis produced by Wavemetrics Inc. ...

• Gizmo Williams, a former kick returner in Canadian Football.

In entertainment: Henry Gizmo Williams (b. ... Canadian football is a sport in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (100. ...

• Gadgets and Gizmos, a Canadian television show about technological devices
• The Gizmos, a 1970s proto-punk band from Indiana
• DJ Gizmo, a Dutch hardcore/hardstyle DJ/producer
• Gizmo a Swedish trip-hop and acid jazz duo that recorded for Clean Up Records and under the name Ipcress appeared on the Totally Wired Sweden compilation album

In fiction: Gadgets and Gizmos is a Canadian television program about technology gadgets and reviews shown on G4techTV Canada. ... The Gizmos were a proto-punk band that formed in Bloomington, Indiana in 1975. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap) is a term coined by British dance magazine Mixmag, to describe DJ Shadow s hip hop instrumentals that (inspired by Organized Confusions track Releasing Hypnotical Gases) changed-up the beat and pallet mid-cut, giving the listener... Acid jazz (sometimes groove jazz) is a musical genre that combines jazz influences with elements of soul music, funk, disco and hip hop. ...

• Gizmo (comics), a member of the H.I.V.E. Five in the Teen Titans animated series
• Gizmo Duck, a character in the DuckTales series
• Gizmo (comic book), a 1986 comic book series created by Michael Dooney
• Gizmo, a mogwai character in the films Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• Don Gizmo, a character in the Fallout computer game

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Gizmo Balbin was a superb role mode for many young dogs that felt unwanted. She rose through the ranks, never giving up and eventually through many struggles was able to find a loving family that looked after her and that family was the Balbin family. One of the members of this great family is sir Jonathan Asher Balbin who was and will be always gizmo's closest and best friend. We celebrate every year the greatness of this brilliant dog. But for all the good heart warming stories like gizmo's there are the sad ones as well and we urge you to take a minute every once in a while to remind ourselves of those unfortunate situations. Gizmo, from Outsiders #13, (August 2004). ... Fenton Crackshell is a fictional character created by The Walt Disney Company. ... A pin-up page dedicated to Frank Herbert from Gizmo #2 June 1986. ... Michael Dooney is an American comic book artist best known for his works on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. ... The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔鬼 (Yale: mo1 gwai2) (Mandarin Chinese: 魔鬼; pinyin：móguǐ) meaning ghost, evil spirit, devil or demon. Mogwai in the Gremlins series As depicted in the 1984 Joe Dante film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, the word... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...