Welcome back, it's time for the new Community challenge! 
The conditions are as flexible as you could imagine - maybe you're proud of your computer & working set as an IT nerd? Or are you a explorer of landscapes with your drone? Or maybe you're passionate about music, having instruments or DJ consoles? Or are you owning other unique gadgets? 🔍
Sky is the limit! Every participant gets 100 bonus points, a dedicated "Inspector Gadget" badge, and endless fun. Who knows, maybe your set of devices will inspire someone to explore a new passion... 🤔 Remember, rewards are submitted till the end of the challenge, May 13th!
Can't wait for your answers!
I am sorry, @Michal_Gebacki , but the sky is not the limit.
My favorite gadget is this binocular, a Celestron UpClose 12x50. I have it since before my graduation in college. It is cheaper and portable than a telescope, the best gadget an amateur astronomer can have.
On these pics we can see Moon and Venus.
On this other we have Saturn, Jupiter and 4 of its biggest moons.
Here we have Orion constellation
Some say I like observability... wondering why....
Hi EveryOne,
I love this challenge,
I have a multitude of gadgets at home.
Smart watches, Speakers, googlehome, connected bulbs, ...
But google home (or Alexa) remains my favorite, it is also used for an interactive game for children...
And we took this gadget even to the office in our service center where we connected
Alexa on amazon (to follow our orders :D)
and GoogleHome to Service Now and ITSM to be notified as soon as we receive customer tickets (don't have an excuse and say I didn't see the email 
...)
By the way, we were inspired by the dynatrace UFO
I can't wait and I'm super excited if one day I can get one.
Have fun and take care.
Maybe you will build your own UFO? 
It can be a challenge, but I think other Community users will be eager to help! 🤗
I was going to say smartwatch ⌚ , but as it was already mentioned 👀, I'm going with music/music-tech stuff 🤓, as Michal suggested!
Learning music from a young age, it was only natural that music-tech would be the way to go, when I got older and realized my future would be in IT 💻
For the great part of the last decade, I've been working with sound & lights on shows in the Phillarmonic Society where I volunteer, and I think my "office" speaks for itself:
That's the Front of House booth, where I spend most of my "free" time 🙂
The leftmost part is the dullest, just a MacBook to playback content and record stuff.
In the center, there's the beauty to my eyes: a Midas M32 sound mixer. A fantastic piece of engineering! It sounds amazing, never fails, and it's even remote controlled on a tablet or smartphone... allows me to work the sound without having to be stuck on that lonely booth all the time 😁 👀
On the right, the other half of it: lights! An Avolites Titan Mobile, works with everything from halogen conventional lights to robotic-moving LEDs 🤖 and... it's also remote controlled 📲 🎉
So, besides an Inspector Gadget scenario, also something of a Dexter Laboratory of Stage Arts 🎼 🎹 🎵 😅
Wow, that's so inspiring! Asking about music totally wouldn't expect something like this! 
Joining gadgets with an inspector mentality, I'll have to talk about a pair of temperature dataloggers that I have been using for some 10 years now. I have used a lot of sensors, but these are the ones that amazed me the most! They had such a big resolution (0.01ºC) that they would detect me when I passed by! I posted dozens of experiences in a blog I have with a friend (disclaimer: in Portuguese, and haven't written much in the last years). My favorite two are the following:
- Measuring if a zeerpot really works: https://www.pouparmelhor.com/praticas/zeer-em-lisboa/
- Detecting the cold coming in from a keyhole: https://www.pouparmelhor.com/praticas/frio-pelo-buraco-da-fechadura/
This is one of them in a zeer beach experience: 🤣
Great to know! And I'm not surprised that the sensor can sense you when you're passing by.. After all, you are one of the "hot" DynaMights! 
😉
I will also share one, that is not that obvious, one that I found really helpful recently. It's definitely my gadget of 2021! It's just an ergonomic wrist rest. With this - my work is so much more pleasant! It's very innovative, designed with physicians and very very comfortable.
Can only agree, that every day spending so many hours in front of the computer affects in a negative way on the wrist. Thanks for sharing! 
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I have my MacBook Pro and the Teddy bear that I like to keep while working. This is really a cool challenge though!!!
Not the biggest gadget person in the world, but I have a couple of items, that are really helpful 😉 My number one at the moment are noise canceling headphones, that are a real live-saver from time to time. When I've got them, I thought they would only cancel some of the sounds in the train rides or during the flights, but they are a little bit more powerful than I've expected. When neighbors are having a party, I can also cancel all their music that is coming through the walls! This for sure saved me at least a couple of nights of sleep 😁
Hm, I worked a long time with Smart Glasses like Hololens, Google Glass, etc. One of my favourite gadgets back then was the Recon Jet. Simply the best looking Smart Glasses of its time. 😉
Smart gadget! 😉
And I don't know why, but when I saw a photo of you with Smart glasses that you shared above my first thought was...
I have my Notti "cube" that I use for notifications (outlook, slack, phone, messages...etc) for when I have everything on silent but still want to be alerted immediately. It sits in the middle of my desk so that I can see it all the time. I use it with my phone notifications when it is on silent and away from me. It can be customized and assign a specific color/brightness to a specific app notifications. All done through a mobile app. My friend and I send each other random gifts from time to time for no reason, just to confuse one another (I once received a gigantic hello kitty cookie jar😂), this cube was one of the gifts that I kept on display and not in storage 😊.
Colors almost like at a party in the club 😎
I would love to see this Hello Kitty jar as well! 😅 
I could name several ones: my apple watch, my jabra earbuds, ... But if I would name one that is helping me so much, it would be by connected vacuum robot!
My Favorite gadget I'd say is our collection of UFOs and our Dynatrace Davis Car integration!
The UFOs are great, at a moments glance we can see the status of everything, Is it green? yeah okay then I can go get some Coffee, Is it red? then I should have gotten an alert and Coffee can wait.
Lastly I love our Dynatrace Davis Integration for your car!
https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-tips/Dynatrace-Davis-Power-in-your-Car/m-p/117000#M85
Mentioning UFO and coffee reminded me of this picture 😉
And about Dynatrace Davis Integration for the car - You ROCK, Chad! 🆒 
I'd say my smart home managed by home assistant. There are so many useful automatons that help every day.
But as it consists of many many gadgets, I'd pick something that helped with augmenting it: My 3D printer(s).
There are also quite a few of them, so I just pick a random one 😉
I was about to write to write about my Garmin Fénix smartwatch, then I realized I have another gadget I like a lot. It a follow-up to the Chef's challenge - my gadget is the KitchenAid mixer with all the cool accessories I use daily in my kitchen. I highly recommend it to everyone with passion for cooking and baking.
Late answer, but better late than never 😂
Don't know if this counts, but at the moment my new mechanical wrist watch is my new favorite "gadget", to be honest. A Traska Commuter Min Green with date-window. I got into the world of wrist watches during the pandemic, and never looked back ⌚
Other than that, I am quite enjoying my JBL UA "The Rock" headphones, as well as my M1 mac.
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