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What New Products saved/revolutionized their own industry?

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  1. dragonsnake

    dragonsnake Member

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    What new products you can think of that saved/revolutionized their own industry?

    I can still remember that the craziness in early 90's when Swatch introduce low-cost switzerland Watch to the market or the fancy IPOD that brought us to Digital Music era.
     
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  2. RocketMan Tex

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    The 1952 Fender Telecaster
     
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    Atari 2600
    Apple computer
    Wonkavision
    Napster
    VHS/betamax
    television
     
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    besides the computer itself, the mouse might be the most important innovation in the computer age. I can't even imagine still having to type DOS commands...
     
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    there are lots of examples during the industrial revolution...

    cotton gin
    tractors
    telegraph
    steam powered ships

    if your looking for recent history..

    bar codes/readers
     
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  7. A-Train

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    ...and I don't think that VHS saved an industry, it CREATED the home movie industry

    Computer animation probably saved the animated film industry. Animated films are now a lot less risky because they can be produced more inexpensively.

    How about the propulsion technology that allows a rollercoaster to reach maximum speed in less than five seconds? Can you imagine not having Greezed Lightning?
     
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    The wheel.
     
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  10. Isabel

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    I could name two inventions that should be on the top ten inventions of all time list, but I don't think you guys want to hear them. Besides, both of them are things that men don't use.
     
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    Tampons and...
     
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    Lipstick.
     
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    ...and.....VIAGRA!!!

    :eek: :D
     
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  14. A-Train

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    soap and the vacuum cleaner?
     
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    Bzzzzz...

    Bzzzzz...
     
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    penicillin probably revolutionized the oldest profession in the world. :D
     
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  17. Isabel

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    Nice try, guys, but the only one who got one of them right was RM95. :) (He's married; maybe she's taught him a few things about women's priorities.)

    FattyFatBastard - ummm, no. I haven't worn it in how many years?

    RocketMan Tex - you can always find some guy who doesn't need it. (well, not always, but you can always hope.) So that's more an invention for men...

    A-Train - joking as usual; I won't worry about that one :)

    coma - how do I put this... it is possible to learn how to do that yourself without any assistance from any "invention". (well, you know that, but it's also possible for women :) )

    My other idea was the bra. I think they didn't even have them until like 100 years ago? I can't imagine. How on earth did they manage? :eek:
     
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    TiVo!
     
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    THE INTERNET
     
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    I was thinking the pill.
     
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