Inventions during your lifetime that changed your life?

To those I'll add the cassette player, the VCR, the mini-computer, the calculator (I remember only having a slide rule), the digital phone pad, instead of the circular thingy you had to dial, the flat screen TV (CRT's used to be curved... and small. I remember my grandmother's TV had a big magnifying glass to increase the size of the screen!), the color TV.

I'll stop there. Just too many things I could list. Great topic!

 

Yup!

Here are the websites for AMC Theaters and Edwards Cinema.

http://www.moviewatcher.com/jsp/amg.jsp
http://www.regmovies.com/nowshowing/opencaptionedshowtimes.aspx

There are two options to watch the subtitles, open captions or rear window captioning. I prefer open captions because it's already included in the movie. Rear window, you have to use a device to read the subtitles that is on the back of the wall.

 

Really? You're deaf?

 

No, it's just funny to joke about.

Being that most folks in here are older than me, not much I can add. But mobile, wireless internet ranks pretty high for me.

 

Yeah, durrrrrr. Do you read english?

 

Personal computer
The Internet
Cell Phone
Microwave

I've become so dependent on those technologies I'm not sure what I would do if I had to go for a long time without them.

 

wasnt the internet invented in like the 1950s? are most of you >50?

the advancement of communications through-out the world in the past 1.5 decade surely has improved the lives of many

'personal' computers
wireless technology

 

Yeah, but I don't think it was available for commercial use until the 80's, and really didn't exist in a form resembling what it does now until nearly the mid-90's.

That aside, there's a few old farts wandering around in here.

 

So, let me get this straight. You're deaf?





Just kidding.

 

Crystal Pepsi and New Coke

 

for deckard and dr of dunk.


Fire.
The wheel.

 

Credit Default Swaps

The Anne Hathaway was invented long before any of us were born.

 

remote control
microwave
microwave popcorn
PC's
cell phones
Totino's frozen pizza

 

Pong.

 

Do you remember going to bars and playing Pong when it came out? It was such a big deal! I always prefered air hockey and foosball, but Pong had the crowds for awhile.

 

Epiphone Zephyr Blues Deluxe
Boss BD-2 Blues Driver pedal

 

mortgage backed securities

 

Frito Burrito.

 

Nintendo

 

Not bars (I was a little kid), but there was a pizza place in the town where I lived that had one. I remember it being the most awesome thing I'd ever seen in my life up to that point.

It seems so stupid now, but it was amazing at the time.

And then when Dr. Isern next door got one of the ones you hooked up to your TV, my tiny little mind was blown again.