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  1. CW: Lewd, wheelchair

    Follow me here; sometimes wheelchair users might have difficulties with their clothing options to show off their assets, but, what if the chair could do more than merely assist with mobility?

    I present to you:

    The Assless Wheelchair. Like assless chaps, but built into the chair.

    I know, incredible innovation. I just need several million dollars to make this invention a totally real reality.

    #asslesschaps #wheelchairlife #invention

  2. CW: Lewd, wheelchair

    Follow me here; sometimes wheelchair users might have difficulties with their clothing options to show off their assets, but, what if the chair could do more than merely assist with mobility?

    I present to you:

    The Assless Wheelchair. Like assless chaps, but built into the chair.

    I know, incredible innovation. I just need several million dollars to make this invention a totally real reality.

    #asslesschaps #wheelchairlife #invention

  3. 🌈 TIL: Color #tv had to solve one stubborn problem.

    Millions of black-and-white sets were already in American homes, so #RCA had to encode #color signals that rode invisibly inside existing broadcasts and only color receivers could decode. That backward-compatible #breakthrough, coming after John Logie Baird’s fragile 1928 mechanical system, finally made color TV possible.

    👉 openculture.com/2026/09/why-in

    #television #history #science #invention #engineering #physics #optics #RGB #RCA #technology #tech #engineering #media #20thcentury

  4. 🌈 TIL: Color #tv had to solve one stubborn problem.

    Millions of black-and-white sets were already in American homes, so #RCA had to encode #color signals that rode invisibly inside existing broadcasts and only color receivers could decode. That backward-compatible #breakthrough, coming after John Logie Baird’s fragile 1928 mechanical system, finally made color TV possible.

    👉 openculture.com/2026/09/why-in

    #television #history #science #invention #engineering #physics #optics #RGB #RCA #technology #tech #engineering #media #20thcentury

  5. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎒🏞️ The Smithsonian traces backpack #design from a two-million-year-old practice to Ötzi’s hazel-and-board frame around 3300 BCE, then follows improvements through a #CivilWar cavalry officer’s patented canvas-and-metal pack, a #Duluth #canoe-hauling design, #aluminum-frame #mountaineering models, and the nylon #JanSport that made the #backpack a school staple. Roughly 450 million are sold annually.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #backpack #history #invention #hiking #science #socialstudies #engineering #innovation #industrialdesign #school #outdoors #otzi

  6. A quotation from Voltaire

    If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
     
    [Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer.]

    Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
    Poem (1769-03-12), “Epistle to the Author of ‘The Three Imposters [Trois Imposteurs],'” l. 22

    Much more about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85662/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #atheism #creation #existence #God #invention #meme #myth #theism

  7. A quotation from Voltaire

    If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
     
    [Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer.]

    Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
    Poem (1769-03-12), “Epistle to the Author of ‘The Three Imposters [Trois Imposteurs],'” l. 22

    Much more about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85662/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #atheism #creation #existence #God #invention #meme #myth #theism

  8. A quotation from Voltaire

    If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
     
    [Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer.]

    Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
    Poem (1769-03-12), “Epistle to the Author of ‘The Three Imposters [Trois Imposteurs],'” l. 22

    Much more about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85662/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #atheism #creation #existence #God #invention #meme #myth #theism

  9. A quotation from Voltaire

    If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
     
    [Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer.]

    Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
    Poem (1769-03-12), “Epistle to the Author of ‘The Three Imposters [Trois Imposteurs],'” l. 22

    Much more about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85662/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #atheism #creation #existence #God #invention #meme #myth #theism

  10. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎧☎️ The first headphones weren’t for #music – they were a 4.5 kg (10 lb) harness invented in 1881 by Ezra Gilliland so telephone switchboard operators could take calls hands-free.

    Over 80 years, inventors slimmed them down: the first earbuds with rubber tips (1891), Baldwin’s headband #design (1910), Beyerdynamic’s dynamic headphones (1937), and Koss’s 1958 system that brought headphone listening to the public.

    👉 bgr.com/2188620/first-headphon

    #invention #history #technology #tech #audio #sony #bose #sound #engineering #inventors #vintage #science

  11. Arm in Arm with Chance

    A misdated photograph, two of the largest minds of the last century, and the partnership physics never got. The photograph travels well. A man and a woman walk the edge of a lake, both buttoned into heavy coats against a cold the season should not have brought. He wears the famous hair, gray now at the temples, the drooping mustache, the look of someone who long ago stopped negotiating with his tailor. She is smaller and upright, her face composed into the expression of a person who has weighed sorrow by the gram. Their arms are linked. The internet, which prefers its history pre-chewed, captions the image with confident precision: Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, Saranac Lake, New York, 1929. Nearly every word of that caption is wrong. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/08/arm-

  12. The Glass People: The Materials of Madness, from the Glass King to the Simulation

    More than six hundred years ago, the King of France stopped letting anyone touch him. Charles VI had iron rods sewn into his clothing and moved through his palace with the stiff care of a man carrying something breakable, because he believed he was carrying something breakable. He believed it was himself. The chronicles of his reign record that the king became convinced his body had turned to glass, and that a careless embrace or an ordinary stumble would shatter him to pieces on the stone floor. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/04/the-