Best and worst inventions of the year

Started by DesmoLu, November 24, 2009, 11:00:05 AM

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DesmoLu

The good news is that society has some awesome accomplishments to show for 2009 like electronic eyes for the blind and best of all...ROCKETS.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1934027,00.html

The bad news is...bra that converts into a gas mask? really? I fear the person who saw the market for this gadget:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934027_1934004_1933998,00.html

zarn02

It's 2009. We're teleporting information between atoms.

Nobody gives a shit.

:P

And I've not heard of many things as heinous as judging the quality of writing using software algorithms.
"If it weren't for our gallows humor, we'd have nothing to hang our hopes on."

Popeye the Sailor

Quote from: DesmoLu on November 24, 2009, 11:00:05 AM
The bad news is...bra that converts into a gas mask? really? I fear the person who saw the market for this gadget:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934027_1934004_1933998,00.html

Idk-if rockets releasing toxic gas were landing all around me, I'd probably stuff my face in the nearest cleavage. It could work, just maybe not so much for the wearer.
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

Holden

a simple respirator/dust mask isn't going to make a very good gas mask. [cheeky]

...and these folks are gonna wonder why when the zombies barf all over their eyes.


Popeye the Sailor

Quote from: Holden on November 24, 2009, 11:52:18 AM
a simple respirator/dust mask isn't going to make a very good gas mask. [cheeky]

...and these folks are gonna wonder why when the zombies barf all over their eyes.



Like I care-if I'm going to die horribly, at least it can be while motorboatin'
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

Buckethead

Browsing their site, I came across the Top 10 Google Earth Finds. I found the description for this one quite amusing.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1881770_1881787_1881777,00.html
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Oldfisti

Quote from: Obsessed? on November 24, 2009, 12:29:35 PM
Browsing their site, I came across the Top 10 Google Earth Finds. I found the description for this one quite amusing.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1881770_1881787_1881777,00.html


Hahaha! 


Stupid Ministry of Defense.


Everyone knows that's a satellite calibration thingy.

























































;D
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Quote from: Obsessed? on November 24, 2009, 12:29:35 PM
Browsing their site, I came across the Top 10 Google Earth Finds. I found the description for this one quite amusing.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1881770_1881787_1881777,00.html


Bwahahahaha.


That pic is quite relevant to this site!
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DesmoLu

Quote from: MrIncredible on November 24, 2009, 11:56:26 AM
Like I care-if I'm going to die horribly, at least it can be while motorboatin'

Purely when taken out of context, this may be his best quote yet!!

TiNi


cokey

i'm ready for the zombies, i know that much...  my wife hates when i talk bout it too.. lol.. she's starting to believe me..
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About the goat...
His name was Bob, but the family called him BeelzeBob. 
make the beast with two backs goats.

LA

Quote from: zarn02 on November 24, 2009, 11:28:28 AM
It's 2009. We're teleporting information between atoms.

Quantum Teleportation Between Distant Matter Qubits, now that's some shit right there.

Magic.

LA
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KnightofNi

pride and prejudice and zombies was a great book.

idk why it's ont he worst list.
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