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A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Auditor #9 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:30 pm

List of important inventions and discoveries
http://www.inventionreaction.com/invention-timeline/

What's the best machine/invention/discovery in the world in your opinion? There's a lot in the list above but in today's modern kitchen I think this particular design is the best of its type...




This is not as good - it takes off way too much skin (important when you're a student) and it sprays potato stuff everywhere. I'm not fascist but it should be banned or at least boycotted.


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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by SeathrúnCeitinn on Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:23 pm

The bravest invention I can think of is the first lunatic to try and put a ring through a Bull's nose. Hence begining pedigree.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Kate P on Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:24 pm

I call my dishwasher The Liberator....

In our old rented lovenest, under the traditional rules of newly married division of labour I had a two legged, leaky and splashy dishwasher that was forever breaking down and just never worked when it was needed.

I love my new dishwasher, sometimes even a little bit more than the old one...

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Ard-Taoiseach on Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:47 pm

The dishwasher is a pretty handy device. It is the centre of cleaning up any kitchen. Unstack and stack one up and you're half-way to a clean kitchen.

The mobile phone is quite useful, especially in times of emergency. Delays can be explained, important communication immediately relayed and things sorted out.

Oh, and this is my 100th post! Woohoo!!!

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Kate P on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:07 pm

What about the scissors - with applications in dressmaking, butchering, everything really...?

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Ard-Taoiseach on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:10 pm

Kate P wrote:What about the scissors - with applications in dressmaking, butchering, everything really...?


Scissors are quite versatile. They're useful in surgery as well.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by EvotingMachine0197 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:12 pm

One of my favourites:

I always keep one handy.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by EvotingMachine0197 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:14 pm

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:
Kate P wrote:What about the scissors - with applications in dressmaking, butchering, everything really...?


Scissors are quite versatile. They're useful in surgery as well.


And homicide

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by MikeW on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:17 pm

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:One of my favourites:

I always keep one handy.


Aaargh, don't do that. Successive weekends of hauling tons of soil from a to b (and occasionally back again). I'm developing a phobia of the damn things.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Kate P on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:20 pm

A scissors can also be a rather handy prosthesis.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by SeathrúnCeitinn on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:22 pm

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:
Ard-Taoiseach wrote:
Kate P wrote:What about the scissors - with applications in dressmaking, butchering, everything really...?


Scissors are quite versatile. They're useful in surgery as well.


And homicide


And the stone age women would have used these microliths.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by EvotingMachine0197 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:24 pm

MikeW wrote:
Aaargh, don't do that. Successive weekends of hauling tons of soil from a to b (and occasionally back again). I'm developing a phobia of the damn things.


Maybe you should try JCB.com Mike. Laughing Laughing

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by MikeW on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:32 pm

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:
MikeW wrote:
Aaargh, don't do that. Successive weekends of hauling tons of soil from a to b (and occasionally back again). I'm developing a phobia of the damn things.


Maybe you should try JCB.com Mike. Laughing Laughing


Actually did rent one of the mini excavators a while back. Now there is a fun bit of kit!


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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Ard-Taoiseach on Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:11 pm

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:
Ard-Taoiseach wrote:
Kate P wrote:What about the scissors - with applications in dressmaking, butchering, everything really...?


Scissors are quite versatile. They're useful in surgery as well.


And homicide


Well, now that you brought it up...

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by cactus flower on Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:14 pm

The Bicycle I suppose.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by cookiemonster on Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:23 pm

The condom. Hey, it's a contraceptive device.

The Baygen Radio. 

The Darfur cookstove.  

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by cactus flower on Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:29 pm

My wind-up solar radio is pretty good

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by cookiemonster on Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:22 pm

cactus flower wrote:My wind-up solar radio is pretty good


I think it's GREAT. It's such a simple idea I wonder why nobody thought of it years and tears ago. And it's impact and potential is huge.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Ard-Taoiseach on Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:27 pm

The kettle is quite nice. Many goodnesses have had their genesis in my trusty Morphy Richards kettle. Mmm... I'll be making myself a cup of tea in the next few minutes.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by cactus flower on Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:33 pm

Flushing loos are pretty good too.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Ard-Taoiseach on Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:34 pm

cactus flower wrote:Flushing loos are pretty good too.


Yes. Very.

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by SeathrúnCeitinn on Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:38 pm

The plumb line

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Auditor #9 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:55 pm

That's a good one Seathrún - using a simple object or two and the earth's gravity to map out a straight line...
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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Auditor #9 on Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:08 am

Is it an invention or a discovery ?

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Re: A gadget/machine/device or discovery you like or admire

Post by Auditor #9 on Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:30 pm

Might splash out today lads (cad é seo?)

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