‘Color TV, Rolling Luggage, Ranch Dressing’: Old people share inventions that didn’t exist when they were kids

Every generation has an invention that their kids won’t believe they once lived without. I think that my future children will be shocked to learn that iPhones and iPads were introduced when I was in elementary school. I remember a kid in my 4th-grade class talking about getting an iPad and thinking it was the …
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Man asks girlfriend for $4000 to fund his plan to invent a new color, sulks when she refuses: ‘[He’s] telling everyone I’m unsupportive and afraid of innovation’

We’re all allowed to have crackpot ideas every now and again, or else life would be no fun and we’d never have Shark Tank. That program showcases the breadth and depth of the human mind more than any other show. An amazing sponge in the shape of a smiley face? Making millions. A stool to …
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‘So much in this world could be driven by a 3.5mm audio jack’: 25+ of the the most underrated inventions we couldn’t live without

It’s all too easy to talk smack about the human race, but if we put aside the countless atrocities we are responsible for some pretty cool things. We’ve come up with some amazing inventions during our limited time on Earth, many of which we take for granted in our everyday lives. To state the obvious, …
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20+ Ingenious Practical Inventions That’ll Leave You Wondering Why You Didn’t Think of Them First

Well, well, well, brace yourselves for a good old-fashioned facepalm session, folks! We’ve scoured the depths of innovation, and it turns out there are some clever folks out there who’ve been living in the future while we’re still stuck in 2023. Behold, the headline that’s about to unleash a tidal wave of «Why didn’t I …
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Scientists Invent ‘Liquid Trees’, Get Roasted by Twitter

We’ve gotta hand it to nature, a lot of the time it really seems to know what it’s doing. We wouldn’t have come this far if it hadn’t been able to change and adapt to everything the world had to throw at it, even if the whole climate change catastrophe might be threatening to change …
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Feast Your Eyes On the World’s First Piano-Grillmobile

Picture this: A beautiful piano, just waiting for its ivories to be tickled by a gentle, talented musical soul. But wait. What if the piano…was also a vehicle? Let’s think bigger. What if it this movable instrument was also a functioning grill? The thought of the pleasure of simultaneous music and meat send chills down …
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