Products that were actually game changers

**GeezerSteve** · 04-10-2013, 08:56 AM

steel

rifled barrels

cotton gin

Henry Repeating rifle

transistors

LCDs

fat waxless skis

**Supermoon** · 04-10-2013, 09:27 AM

The forward pass

Refrigeration

Releasable bindings

Metal edges

**userA** · 04-10-2013, 10:05 AM

retractable roofs

**I've seen black diamonds!** · 04-10-2013, 10:05 AM

paper
the GUI

**The AD** · 04-10-2013, 10:18 AM

A couple that don't get the respect they deserve are canning and frozen food. These two things radically changed agriculture for better and for worse.

**userA** · 04-10-2013, 10:23 AM

like a hundred something years ago

**The Reverend Floater** · 04-10-2013, 11:08 AM

Jimi Hendrix
internal combustion
Domino's

**The AD** · 04-10-2013, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by flowing alpy

like a hundred something years ago

I didn't see the caveat about it being something in the last 20 years.

**Cayuse** · 04-10-2013, 11:17 AM

Air conditioning since without it the earliest computers would have overheated.

**The AD** · 04-10-2013, 11:21 AM

Lossy audio compression, i.e. mp3.

Hugh Conway · 04-10-2013, 11:22 AM

.mp3 was only a gamechanger because of napster/music piracy

**DeathVan** · 04-10-2013, 11:32 AM

Stem cell boobs

**iceman** · 04-10-2013, 11:37 AM

**Binky** · 04-10-2013, 12:00 PM

Thong panties

**iscariot** · 04-10-2013, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by From_the_NEK

Transparent Aluminum

**mud** · 04-10-2013, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by DeathVan

Stem cell boobs

dolphinoplasty

**The AD** · 04-10-2013, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

.mp3 was only a gamechanger because of napster/music piracy

I think it goes way beyond that. Compressed audio more or less was the death knell for music on physical media.

**DJSapp** · 04-10-2013, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

I think it goes way beyond that. Compressed audio more or less was the death knell for music on physical media.

Couple this with ipods and itunes, and it is a complete revolution in the music industry.

Hugh Conway · 04-10-2013, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

I think it goes way beyond that. Compressed audio more or less was the death knell for music on physical media.

CDs were lossy compression

**Mofro261** · 04-10-2013, 02:03 PM

PCR, and currently massive parallel sequencing that is ushering in personalized genomics.

More importantly, the LS9000.

**DeathVan** · 04-10-2013, 02:04 PM

This newer Astroturf shit is ridiculous

**The AD** · 04-10-2013, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

CDs were lossy compression

Incorrect. Unless you consider digital sampling to be inherently lossy.

Hugh Conway · 04-10-2013, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

Incorrect. Unless you consider digital sampling to be inherently lossy.

suck a dick jeopardy - the initial CD parameters were dictated by human audio perception

**The AD** · 04-10-2013, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

suck a dick jeopardy - the initial CD parameters were dictated by human audio perception

Why do you insist on being such an ass? I guess you could say every method of recording ever devised is lossy if you want to be pedantic about it, but you knew exactly what I meant by "lossy."