Posted on 10/08/2013 9:03:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
From the Sony Walkman to the humble zip: The past century’s top 100 inventions that changed our lives (yet most of us take for granted)
Does it make you feel old to know that Dyson’s dustbag-free vacuum is 20 this year?
Or that the much-loved Sony Walkman and the world’s first ever laptop, the Epson HX-30, are both over 30 years old?
These are just a few of the gadgets that have made it onto the 100 gadgets of the past century that we can’t live without, with technologies ranging from humble zip to the Playstation 4.
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ping
The Thermos ® - the greatest invention ever - isn’t on the list.
Birth control pill. That REALLY changed our lives and society at large.
These are inventions since 1913. The thermos was invented in 1892.
A bit presumptuous, no?
Well that explains it.
I bought the Sony Walkman Pro....in 1987
Metal Case...Speed Adjustment so one could tune it to a piano...
250 Bucks...
26 years and one bicycle accident that Dented the case fairly severely. it still works.. although I never use it.
It was the deluxe Ipod of its day
One invention I’ve wondered about is pockets. It’s pretty hard to imagine, but we didn’t have them until a few centuries ago. Can you even imagine having to carry everything you needed with you in a bag, or in your hands, or even stuffed in your clothes, all the time?
I’ve read up on it, and nobody seems to have a clue who invented the first pocket. We can pinpoint a general time when we went from no pockets to pockets, but the inventor, probably some nameless tailor or seamstress, is lost to history.
Nothing can beat the artificial intelligence of a simple thermos which can independently determine when to keep the contents cold and when to keep them hot!
bump for later
What about Smell-O-Vision?
my vote is for the zip-lock baggie
Heard of a walkman but don’t kmow what it does, as far as a humble zip, I have no idea.
Excuse me if I curb my enthusiasm (no pun intended) until a working model of a flying car is invented and made available to the general public and Wal-Mart customers.
Complete with a ‘party line’ and 3 of your neighbors?!!
I have not read the article yet.
But, my Great Grandmother told me the greatest invention was the push button starter for cars.
She worked as a teen and hated that she had to wake her brother every morning very early in order to crank start the car for her.
She was about 5 foot tall and probably never weighed more than 100 pounds.
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