Editing Doraemon (section)

=== Gadgets ===
[[File:任意門 (29052459944).jpg|thumb|upright=1.14|"Anywhere Door", a gadget in the manga series as seen in the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum|alt="Anywhere Door", a pink door used as a gadget in "Doraemon"; users can travel anywhere on their wish by turning the door's knob]]
Gadgets, or {{nihongo4|"himitsu dōgu"|ひみつ道具}}, are Doraemon's tools from the future, usually used to help the characters. Fujio said that Doraemon has a total of 1,293 gadgets;<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2004-04-20|title=ぼく、ドラえもん 第4号|trans-title=I, Doraemon No. 4|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%81%BC%E3%81%8F%E3%80%81%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93-%E8%97%A4%E5%AD%90%E3%83%BB%EF%BC%A6%E3%83%BB%E4%B8%8D%E4%BA%8C%E9%9B%84%E2%98%85%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89-4/dp/B005NH6RU2|magazine=Fujiko F. Fujio Wonderland|language=ja|asin=B005NH6RU2|access-date=2021-05-25}}</ref> according to a 2004 analysis by Yasuyuki Yokoyama of [[Toyama University]], there are 1,963 gadgets found in 1,344 sketches.<ref name="The Japan Times-2004">{{Cite news|date=2004-04-03|title='Doraemon' fanatic boasts Ding Dong's 1,963 gadgets|work=[[The Japan Times]]|publisher=|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp:80/cgi-bin/nn20040403f1.html|url-status=dead|access-date=2013-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129112232/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20040403f1.html|archive-date=2009-01-29}}</ref> The most important gadgets include "Take-Copter", a small piece of headgear made out of bamboo that can allow its users to fly; "Time Machine", a machine used for [[time travel]]; "Anywhere Door", a pink-colored door that allows people to travel according to the thoughts of the person who turns the knob; "Time Kerchief", a handkerchief which can turn an object new or old or a person young or old; "Translator Tool", a cuboid jelly that allow one to converse in any language; and "Designer", a camera used to instantly dress-up the user.<ref name="The Japan Times-2004" /><ref name="Shiraishi 2000">{{Harvnb|Shiraishi|2000|p=296}}</ref>

Saya S. Shiraishi wrote that most of the gadgets were "an impressive testimony to the standards of quality control and innovation that exist in the twenty-second century".<ref name="Shiraishi 2000" /> The gadgets were an essential part of the series so as to reflect a positive point of view about the association of technology in children, and to express the wishes of modern society.<ref>{{Harvnb|Shiraishi|2000|pp=292, 296–297}}</ref>