#invention — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #invention, aggregated by home.social.
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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 -
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 -
🌈 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.
👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/09/why-inventing-color-tv-was-so-difficult.html
#television #history #science #invention #engineering #physics #optics #RGB #RCA #technology #tech #engineering #media #20thcentury
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🌈 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.
👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/09/why-inventing-color-tv-was-so-difficult.html
#television #history #science #invention #engineering #physics #optics #RGB #RCA #technology #tech #engineering #media #20thcentury
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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In this skit, Cordova asks whether AI will be a net benefit for humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488
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💁🏻♀️ 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.
#backpack #history #invention #hiking #science #socialstudies #engineering #innovation #industrialdesign #school #outdoors #otzi
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#Check out : #Israel is a #democracy, perhaps in the way that all our so-called democracies evolve, more #authoritarian, more #oppressive, more #oligarchic, more #differential and #unequal - anyway #Israel is an #occidental #invention
« The next morning I left the festival and made my way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I had to wait an extra hour or so for a taxi with the right color license plate, yellow, and so be allowed to cross through a checkpoint in Israel’s wall and onto the road to Jerusalem on the other side. I made small talk with my driver, then retreated back into my thoughts of the journey so far. It was my sixth day in Palestine, but I felt like I had been here for months. The days were filled with tours, the nights with talks—even the meals felt like seminars. Some of this is just being abroad somewhere far from home. But most of it was the specificity of this place—how much it seemed to embody the West and its contradictions, its claims of democracy, its foundations in exploitation. Of all the worlds I have ever explored, I don’t think any shone so bright, so intense, so immediately as Palestine.
But when the light cleared I had new eyes, and I could see my own words in new ways—and the words from which they were derived—the stories, columns, speeches, and talks presented by “willing intellectuals.” So much seemed obvious. I now noted a symmetry in the bromides—that those who claimed Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East were just as likely to claim that America was the oldest democracy in the world. And both claims relied on excluding whole swaths of the population living under the rule of the state. Riding in that taxi toward Jerusalem, the truth of this struck me as undeniable. I’d spent most of my time in the Occupied Territories, a world of minority rule. But even in the state proper, caste reigned. Palestinians living in Israel have shorter lives, are poorer, and live in more violent neighborhoods. Certain neighborhoods in Israel are allowed to discriminate legally against Palestinian citizens by setting “admission committees.” The committees, operating in 41 percent of all Israeli localities, are free to bar anyone lacking “social suitability” or “compatibility with the social and cultural fabric.” Openly racist appeals are the norm, as when Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2015 that “the right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.” For all my talk of being fooled by the language of “Jewish democracy,” it had been right there the whole time. The phrase means what it says—a democracy for the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone. »Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
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As the grid loses power in heatwaves, and communities & landscapes face mounting extraction for battery supply chains, this video shows how we can make environmentally just transitions to solar at scale — cooking, heating, refrigerating food, and living our daily lives.
This is especially important in the context of mining, and furthers the vision of the newly announced Indigenous Peoples Principles and Protocols for Just Transition.
We're looking to support this vision in urban and residential areas through new housing projects, resilience hubs, and retrofits/conversions to existing buildings. If you're interested, we're very up to collaborate and connect with new partners on that!
Finally, please watch and share! We're hoping for a lot of people to see this, and watching till the end helps algorithms recommend it to more people. Hoping to bring a lot more of the conversation to this direction.
#JustTransition #GreenNewDeal #Solar #Resilience #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #Community #Lithium #Mining #Extraction #Indigenous #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice #EJ #Postgrowth #Transitions #Solidarity #RareEarthMetals #Batteries #Storage #Sustainability #Sustainable #Grid #Electricity #Heat #Degrowth #Autonomy #Municipalism #LowTech #Hardware #Engineering #Invention #Inventor
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Film Review: INVENTION: Callie Hernandez Carries an Experimental Drama Through Some Minor Technicalities [Locarno 2024]
#FilmBook #CallieHernandez #CavehZahedi #CourtneyStephens #FilmFestival #Invention #JamesN.KienitzWilkins #JoeSwanberg #LocarnoFilmFestival #LucyKaminsky #MovieReview #SahmMcGlynn #TonyTorn
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‘Invention’ Filmmakers Courtney Stephens, Callie Hernandez Talk Dead Dads, American Mythology and Innovative Filmmaking from Locarno
#Variety #Global #MarketsFestivals #News #CallieHernandez #CourtneyStephens #Invention #LocarnoFilmFestival -
Très heureuse d’annoncer la publication de cet article plus personnel (moins bergsonien) que d’habitude. J’espère cependant qu’il apporte des outils conceptuels pour penser l’agentivité (agency) non humaine et son rôle dans l’évolution : https://www.spontaneousgenerations.com/s/Tahar-Article-4ndr.pdf #animalagency #biologicalagency #invention #evolution #animalbehaviour #evolution