Some modern inventions we take for granted, but really are tremendously convenient and it'd be a real ball ache if we had to go back.
Online banking, for starters.
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mobile phones
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The new improved forum.
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Sky+
The best invention since gravity.
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Digital Camera
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The Teasmaid.
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internet pron
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Cheese?
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older inventions too - bicycles and electricity for starters
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point of order surely electricity is a discovery not an invention.
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I meant modern as in the last 15 years.
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electricity maker machines
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quite possibly junkyard, how about power sockets, plugs and wires then?
edit: and what tsy said
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T'interweb? I know it might have been invented a few years before but only really come to the main in the last 15 years
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Sky+
The best invention since gravity.
* other TV recorders are available. And are often better.
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i was not being arsey there you could have had the battery as well as the stuff you and TSY said. i think molgrips is not allowing it though.
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Spotify
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no worries, didn't take it arsey
More food for thought. I am trying to think of a modern one but I am a luddite and therefore struggling
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Got to be online porn!
No more shuffling in the aisles down your local newsagent
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Non stick frying pans or teflon.
If you're going down the online porn route I love the engineering behind some of the machines that are in the videos these days. Tecnichally old but what novel applications.
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IPod
Carbon Fibre
Lycra
ErdingerPosted 11 months ago # -
I think Ipod is the only one you can have there LHS (15years) and I'd say mp3 player rather than ipod.
Erdinger your way out.
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The Bic Pen
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ipods, imacs, iphones, laptops, online shopping, sky tv, facebook etc.
They're all great. They add excitement/stress/annoyance/frustration/complication etc. to our otherwise simple boring lives.
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GPS - yeah I know that the system's been around longer than the arbitrary 15 years, but affordable units for the average joe probably haven't.
And @GrahamS -
And are
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Internet banking
It always astounds me the number of my clients who are too scared to use internet banking. I always ask for payment through online bank transfer and one of three will still insist on sending a cheque or going into their branch.
When asked why, they tell me there's too many scams around to use internet banking!??! My clients are typically bright young things between the ages of 20 and 35.
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bright young things
clearly not.
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The wife.
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Bicycle
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The Dishwasher (no..no not the wife)
The Fire Alarm buzzer thingy, I mean smoke detector
Colour Printers
Memory Sticks
The USBPosted 11 months ago # -
I always ask for payment through online bank transfer and one of three will still insist on sending a cheque
When asked why, they tell me there's too many scams around to use internet banking!
And these will be the same guys that won't give out a bank a/c no + sort code for you to pay them online because it sounds scary and dangerous and insecure, but are more than happy to send a cheque that has both the same bank a/c no and sort code and more in clear plain human readable text
Sky+
The best invention since gravity.
Except for when they push an update and nuke your schedules/recordings.
* other TV recorders are available. And are often better.
^^ that
Can't think of modern inventions I like, but online anything is the most dangerous. Spending your money mostly thru the use of right forefinger clicking a plastic rodent (whose tail comes out of its nose rather than its butt). Seems 100% virtual at the time... until the DHL guys turns up.
edit: oh internet proxies etc. Doesn't matter how hard BBC tries to stop non-resident Brits watching Brit TV c/o iplayer or how hard Sony tries to stop people watching Youtube vids with Sony "music"... the Internet is GLOBAL... With a tiny bit of effort, we can all still see it!!!
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Except for when they push an update and nuke your schedules/recordings.
I can honestly say that has never, ever happened to me and we have had it for several years now.Can I also add the Sky+ iPhone app? A great addition to the best invention everereerererer.
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Orange Five.
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It always astounds me the number of my clients who are too scared to use internet banking.
My dad's missus told us the other day that she has never used an ATM and never plans to - because of all(??) those problems with them not giving out money properly.
Try persuading her to use internet banking!
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