What do you believe is the coolest invention of the decade
simple enough, Ill post mine after i get some replies
um...Instant noodles?? (lol that's old..). Nuclear weapons? Can opener? Refrigerator?
Man...I don't know! :P
Liquid jet impingement
Playstation 2
robot sex
definitely robot sex
Google told me it has something to do with cooling, probably computer cooling but i am not sure.
Mine would be the digital camera, for various reasons (some i am unable to talk about on the Internet, a girl IS involved ;) )
>a girl IS involved ;) )
Ho~ho~ho~ ^^
I invented a sandwich with peanut butter and catsup and pickles and baloney. It's pretty cool.
>>9
Make me hungry in this early morning =.=
It's probably something really obscure. Most of the cool stuff was invented in the 19th century.
They made Ununoctium this century. It has no practical value whatsoever, but it's the first synthetic noble gas ever created!
porn
nope robot sex
the ipod probably, cus i bet you the president has one and steve jobs uses it to steal the secret codes to the bombs
Yes, the military operates exactly as it did in War Games. When will they realize this and beef up the security?
Actually, after having met a navy launch officer, I learned that the US Navy, at least, has REDUCED security. You no longer even need to enter a code to launch. You just select a missile on your console and pull a little trigger and it starts the automated launch sequence. No checks at all, no security.
Two experienced launch officers are now sitting in brig because they were so shocked and alarmed by this new design that they decided to defy their orders and change their system back to the old, secure launch method.
Michio Kaku
hrm, since 1998... most of the things I think that are cool were (in some form or other) around then:
broadband and wireless internet, multiplayer gaming, LEDs, TFTs, SSDs.
Actually bad: x86 has become the only platform for consumers.
Most things I can think of are pieces of code like Freenet, Bittorrent or porn video sites, but in the end I say:
USB flash drives.
They work by quantum tunneling!
How cool is that?!
First quantum computer, 2007.
Even though it was thought of a long time ago.
the mp3 player?
>>2,6,7,13,14,21,22
which decade are we talking about here?
Digital SLR camera.
> First quantum computer, 2007.
http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Dec05/r121205b
First hard disk that big enough. The size is Half of my room, with just 20 MB.
Memristors
seconded "penis \(^o^)/"
vc: to
The Internet...or at least it's mainstream availability.
Personally, I can't really remember what I was doing in my spare time before we all had access to it. Maybe living. Haha.
>>29
1993 was more than a decade ago.
Most definatly 4-ch.net, and this thread. Yah beat that!