Major Inventions

benjo plz. · 5 Feb 2006 at 21:51

sfx said:
No DVD and HDTV are evolutions of what was Invented previously.

So by the same line of thought a tv is an evolution of the radio?

zain · 5 Feb 2006 at 21:52

Sat Nav that leads you into a wall

Mr_L · 5 Feb 2006 at 21:52

Tried&Tested said:
Converts chemical energy to electrical energy. They don't actually store electricity.

I'll take your word for it, I can't be arsed to read the huge wiki entry for batteries.

Mr_L · 5 Feb 2006 at 21:54

Tesla said:
What's what I mean called? I don't think my idea of invention is the same as everybody elses.

Nobody is wrong, it's just two opposite views of what an invention is.

ps3ud0 · 5 Feb 2006 at 22:02

G-MAN2004 said:
You can't store electricity IIRC.

Dont capacitors though? - obviously only for a relatively short finite amount of time and cant maintain this as they eventually discharge...

Just being devils advocate...

ps3ud0 :cool:

LabR@t · 24 May 2017 at 10:02

WiFi
4g

dowie · 24 May 2017 at 10:14

Tesla said:
What inventions do you think changed the modern world?

Any you can think of from recent times?

facebook/social media

the smartphone/tablet

both of those have changed the daily behaviour of millions of people

dowie · 24 May 2017 at 10:15

Mic said:
the inter web

that's been around for longer than 20 years

NoobCannon · 24 May 2017 at 10:15

Fleshlight

subbytna · 24 May 2017 at 10:26

Holy thread revival batman

Ryan-3 · 24 May 2017 at 11:10

This thread revival is a good invention?

Steam. Imitations of it don't come close. So easy to use, supports the small developers, keeps everything up to date for you, etc.

G-MAN2004 · 24 May 2017 at 11:14

I last posted in this thread when I was 14, but now I finally have an answer. The fidget spinner.

Nasher · 24 May 2017 at 11:17

I wouldn't say mobile phones belong on the list, they are just a mash of existing technology (a phone, a radio, and pocket computer put together).

It's not even in the same league as something like the internal combustion engine, aircraft, railways, batteries.

There's things society can live without (like mobile phones, social media) and things it needs (like electricity).

Diddums · 24 May 2017 at 11:38

Clocks, calendars and glasses to help people read dates.

Also, the OP's username is probably one of the most appropriate I've seen on here.

cheesyboy · 24 May 2017 at 11:42

dowie said:
that's been around for longer than 20 years

Not when that post was made it hadn't

dowie · 24 May 2017 at 11:54

cheesyboy said:
Not when that post was made it hadn't

eh?

kinobestew123 · 24 May 2017 at 11:55

For me, GPS is one of the best inventions. It's incredible that it can use satellites so far above the earth's surface to pinpoint an exact location. The devices are so small too.

Google search engine has to be up there too.

cheesyboy · 24 May 2017 at 12:01

dowie said:
eh?

Well, the post you quoted was from 2006. 20 years previous to that was 1986. The internet technically existed at that point, but wasn't really the same thing we now think of as 'The Internet'

Haggisman · 24 May 2017 at 13:57

If we're excluding improvements on old inventions, then surely the wheel doesn't count?

After all it's just an improved version of rolling things on logs!

Efour · 24 May 2017 at 14:15

graphene coated fleshlight