#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.
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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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The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator
https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453232
#HackerNews #Einstein #Szilard #Refrigerator #Invention #History #Science #Innovation
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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. 22Much more about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85662/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #atheism #creation #existence #God #invention #meme #myth #theism
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Resurrecting Plant Inspires ‘Fridge Free’ Vaccines That Could Save the Millions of Doses Wasted Annually
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Inventor Envisioned a Waterless Toilet for Astronauts, Realized it Could Solve a Global Sanitation Crisis Instead
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🗂️🔗 Starting in 1895, Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine built the #Mundaneum, a vast paper #archive of over 15 million index cards meant to gather and classify all human #knowledge.
Otlet also imagined “electric #telescopes,” networked screens users could query by phone, an early blueprint for the #internet. The project was dismantled after the 1940 Nazi invasion, but survives today as a #museum in #Mons and an online catalog.
👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/discover-the-mundaneum-an-early-20th-century-internet.html
#history #belgium #library #invention #concept #classification #tech #technology #education #discovery
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
-- Pierre Bayle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBayle #Invention
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah
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🇨🇦 Canadian Word of the Day: Garburator
In Canada, that noisy machine under the kitchen sink that grinds up food scraps is called a 'garburator.' In the US and elsewhere, it's typically known as a 'garbage disposal.' The term 'Garburator' was originally a brand name for a unit made by General Electric, but like 'Kleenex' or 'Zamboni,' it became the common term for the device itself across the country. #Canada #CanadianSlang #WordOfTheDay #Invention
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”Jeff Ding’s book ’Technology and the Rise of Great Powers‘ traces the relative impact of #invention and #diffusion during #technology revolutions. Ding argues that nations that dominate the “leading sector” of a general purpose technology don’t reliably grow more powerful as a result. Diffusion is the defining factor. He posits that Britain’s edge in the first industrial revolution came less from inventing the steam engine and advances in steelmaking than from diffusing machinery through the whole economy so that many businesses, not just the steam engine manufacturers and the steelmakers, became more profitable. And America’s edge in the second industrial revolution had less to do with any single American breakthrough than with how fast interchangeable manufacturing, electrification, and eventually the automobile spread into every sector at once. Germany dominated many frontier industries, but there, growth and profits were concentrated in a few leading companies rather than diffused widely through society.
According to Ding, the importance of diffusion over frontier dominance continued in the 20th century. Though the US pioneered the electronics revolution, Japan appeared for a time to be winning the frontier race, at least in Ding’s narrative. It led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware through the 1980s, yet in the long run it still lost the information revolution to the US, a country that was worse at making the chips and better at putting computers to work throughout society.“
Google’s Westinghouse Bet - by Tim O'Reilly
https://asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/googles-westinghouse-bet
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Those yellow bumpy tiles exist because a man in Japan had a friend going blind
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Self-Healing Contact Lenses Repair Scratches with Just 1 Hour of UV Light Exposure
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Sciencepost: On pensait connaître l' #histoire de l' #invention de la #roue : une nouvelle étude pointe vers de simples mineurs que personne ne soupçonnait
C’est ce qu’on appelle réinventer la roue... 😅
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🇨🇦 Canadian Word of the Day: Garburator
In Canada, that noisy machine under the kitchen sink that grinds up food scraps is called a 'garburator.' In the US and elsewhere, it's typically known as a 'garbage disposal.' The term 'Garburator' was originally a brand name for a unit made by General Electric, but like 'Kleenex' or 'Zamboni,' it became the common term for the device itself across the country. #Canada #CanadianSlang #WordOfTheDay #Invention
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Who invented the first compound microscope?? Turns out the answer is a lil *messy*
To find out more, check out this week's #podcast episode: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/microscopium-myths-and-retconstellations/
#history #Invention #StarLore #microscopium #Microscope #science #humor
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SELF-INFLICTED STUPIDITY
"I've just invented something that can destroy humanity at the drop of a hat. However, to keep it from doing so is going to require more funding."
#irony #humor #errtling #bookcafe #law #gov #governance #android_dreams #writing #invention #society #ai -
💁🏻♀️ TIL: Engineers at #PennState have developed a conductive #ink that works like face paint to create customizable electrodes for monitoring #heart, #muscle, and #brain activity.
The #water-based ink dries on #skin within minutes, conforms closely for more accurate readings, and can be washed off and reapplied. In tests, the sensors tracked #ECG for 12 hours and fed muscle signals to a robotic #prosthetic.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/colorful-paint-on-health-sensors/
#sensors #health #wearables #stem #ecg #emg #science #invention #engineering #biotech #tech #technology
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧊🤖 A British led #expedition launching this month will deploy a fleet of #drones, subs, and sensors to study #Greenland’s melting #glaciers in detail.
The #GIANT project aims to improve #climate models by observing the tiny scale #physics of #ice #ocean interactions. The mission, funded by the #UK’s Advanced Research and #Invention Agency, runs from the #research ship Sir #DavidAttenborough.
👉 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/robot-mission-map-greenland-ice-climate
#robots #climatechange #science #submarine #arctic #engineering #earthscience #currents #amoc
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Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world
https://thisbugslife.com/2021/11/21/dolosse-a-south-african-invention-used-over-the-world/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786124
#HackerNews #Dolosse #SouthAfrica #invention #engineering #innovation #globalimpact
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travailleurs de première ligne : les grandes inventions du quotidien
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https://www.fogolf.com/1310103/this-92-year-old-retired-chemist-wants-to-fix-your-slice-with-a-golf-glove-golf-news-and-tour-information/ This 92-year-old retired chemist wants to fix your slice … with a golf glove | Golf News and Tour Information #CureYourSlice #DrLawrenceRocks #Golf #GolfCourses #GolfGlove #invention #news #products #Science #Story #This92YearOldRetiredChemistWantsToFixYourSliceWithAGolfGlove
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Cool short report of how we came to have automatic rice (and other grain) cookers. I use an automatic grain cooker regularly now — very convenient.
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Cafe Chill Episode 2024-18: beachowl, Rejoicer and more
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Listen on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/526947-cafe-chill-episode-2024-18
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Café Chill, a weekly radio program featuring chill music mixes, is produced by KNHC National Productions (C89.5 FM) in Seattle and broadcast on public radio stations across the USA. This week’s show includes tracks from artists like beachowl, rosequartz, Helios and Hollie Kennif, and more.
Hosted by Seth. Working in the background is me (Richard).
Playlist:
•beachowl–Abysmal
Release: Motel Pools – EP
Label:3361561 Records DK•rosequartz–interlude
Release: interlude – Single
Label:SVNSET WAVES•Helios and Hollie Kennif–Wild Light
Release: Wild Light – Single
Label:Helios and Hollie Kennif•Rejoicer–Graveyard Party
Release: This Is Reasonable
Label:Circus Company•Brothertiger–Outer Zone
Release: Fundamentals, Vol. V
Label:Brothertiger•Invention–Landrace
Release: Landrace – Single
Label:Chillhop Music•Boards of Canada–Nothing Is Real
Release: Tomorrow’s Harvest
Label:Warp Records•Eagle Eyed Tiger–Feathers
Release: Feathers
Label:Orbital Rendezvous•Firephly–A Fracture In Time
Release: A Fracture In Time – Single
Label:Firephly•Site Nonsite–Caravan Tokyo
Release: Tokyo – EP
Label:Obvious Things•Joe Nora–Cat Creek
Release: SVMMER SVN, Vol. 7
Label:SVNSET WAVES•King Shi–Father’s Love
Release: Jupiter Blues
Label:Tekhedz, Millennium Jazz Music•RUMTUM–Shade Fader
Release: Isles in Indigo
Label:Bastard Jazz Recordings•Arovane–Tides
Release: Tides
Label:MERLIN – City Centre Offices•Caleb Belkin–Waves
Release: Natural Sounds
Label:SXNYou can also listen at:
https://www.c895.org/show/cafe-chill/
https://cafechill.orgPhoto: “Sunset Point”. Credit: Capitol Reef National Park/National Park Service, public domain.
Have a wonderful day!
#Ambient #Arovane #beachowl #BoardsofCanada #Brothertiger #C895 #C895CafeChill #cafeChill #cafechillradio #CalebBelkin #Chill #danceMusic #downtempo #EagleEyedTiger #elm #Firephly #HeliosandHollieKennif #Invention #JoeNora #KingShi #KNHC #PRX #publicRadio #radio #Rejoicer #rosequartz #RUMTUM #seattle #SiteNonsite