Best Inventions This Decade

[JNEWFIFTY]

I just finished up this debate in the office and I feel the clear winner is.....DVR/Tivo.

Thoughts?

 

[Colton]

When did digital cameras become mainstream for our industry? No more film, D76, fixer (ugh!), negs or prints.

Ipods.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Yup. I'd go with the iPod. Not the first digital music player, but it was a game changer.

By the way, I did check this -- TIVO is a bit more than a decade old now.

 

[pressboxer]

air cards

 

[RickStain]

Pitch f/x

 

[cougargirl]

YouTube
Flash drives/memory sticks
iPod - agreed on both mentions
Wireless cards/wireless internet
High definition television. For sports.
Satellite radio

 

[JNEWFIFTY]

lash drives/memory sticks
ireless cards/wireless internet
Satellite radio

Can't disagree

 

[Jake_Taylor]

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Yup. I'd go with the iPod. Not the first digital music player, but it was a game changer.

Certainly not the first. I think those arrived in 1997 or so. I remember doing a story on the Diamond Rio players (the second portable music player to arrive) around that time. Most sales clerks were convinced those things had no future and they were right to a degree. Most of those first portable players ended up in the dustbin of history around 1999 or 2000.

I think it took about one more year before the IPod really made inroads into the portable digital music market.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Even though they're not an inventions, I'd put Facebook and Twitter up there.

 

[RickStain]

Blogs.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

We still have five and a half months to get those damned flying cars we were promised, so I'm abstaining from the vote until then.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

 

[Sam Mills 51]

HDTV

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

HDTV

Was developed in the mid-90s.

 

[RickStain]

HDTV

Was developed in the mid-90s.

That's sort of the problem. The really great stuff invented in this decade won't become popularly available until next decade,

 

[duckncover]

Porn movies on my desktop computer delivered via high-speed connection. Thank you Al Gore.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Just Set It And Forget It!

 

[da man]

Come on, no love for the Awesome Auger? Why, it's ... it's ... it's ... AWESOME!

 

[schiezainc]

Wireless internet.