TiVo TCD540040 Series2 40-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Without question, the best gadget ever
Put simply, Tivo transcends mere description of how it impacts your life.  By analogy, not having Tivo is like not having plumbing or electricity in your house.  It revolutionizes how you watch television infinitely for the better.  Now you can pause West Wing to go to the bathroom, rewind it to listen again to the complicated dialogue you didn't catch the first time.  One even discovers new shows or old favorites - programs that come on at inconvenient times - and saves them for later use.  Anyway, Tivo's features are well-known.  But trust other Tivo enthusiasts when we say that it is transforming and wonderful.  You, too, will become a member of the Tivo cult.