"I'm picking out a Thermos for you. Not an ordinary Thermos for you. But the extra best Thermos that you can buy, With vinyl and stripes and a cup built right in!"
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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It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How does it know?
Clothes washing machine!
Divorce!
Missing is the stuff rotating in that oven at 7-11, air bags and the designated hitter rule.
The mute button!
Flying Car! LOL!
98% of the idiots out there can’t handle 2 dimensions, adding a 3rd will be a bloodbath.
I Guarantee, there can be 50 vertical lanes and 10 Horizontal lanes and there will still be some moron in the top left lane flying under the speed limit blocking traffic
they had belts and pouches. visible and hidden pouches.
Walkman = originally, a portable audio cassette player
zip (UK) = zipper (USA)
That electric starter for cars was invented by Charles Kettering, a most humble genius with many patents in his name.
I was fascinated by his biography. He cared little about the millions he made and gave it away during his lifetime. He is the Kettering in the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute.
And here I was hoping it was the Zip-Drive.
:D
From the point of view of a Euro pickpocket: Fanny packs!
From the point of view of a Euro pickpocket: Fanny packs!
"I'm picking out a Thermos for you. Not an ordinary Thermos for you. But the extra best Thermos that you can buy, With vinyl and stripes and a cup built right in!"
True, but I don’t think it’s quite the same. Pockets were still pretty revolutionary. Much better than a fanny pack :)
.......with their up blinker flashing for the past 3 light years.
1985 The Leatherman
I agree.
Thanks for the info!
” a portable audio cassette player”
I totally canned music when I was 8 when I played in the Los Angeles junior philharmonic orchastra and my mother let me quit music lessons..
I took up hot rods and drag racing and never looked back.
I’ve never owned any form of recorded music and I don’t miss it one bit!
Oh man, when the black kid immediately figured out how to work the turntable and started “scratching” on it, I just lost it. Way to perpetuate stereotypes, kid, way to go.
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