<p>Internet banking
Word and Word Perfect
Excel
Quickbooks Pro
AutoCAD
Hi-speed internet
Airplanes
Business Class lie flat seats
Cell phones with texting
Water blasters
Zoom Whitening
Lasik
Hair colour
Hip Hop
Soul
Email
Amazon.com/amazon.co.UK
Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale
Computerized Tile Design
DVD delivery
Laundry Service
Gardening Service
Housekeeping service
Poo Pick up Service
Halogen lights
Dimmers
Convection baking
Microwave
Clip on bike shoes
GUI
Water bottle carriers
Camel Backs
Polyprops
The Pill 
Epidural Anesthesia
Reading glasses
Paper backs</p>
<p>Poo Pickup Service? What the …?</p>
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Isn’t that our spouse or kid? They use the little scooper thing in the back yard :)</p>
<p>Scanners for upc symbols. I like going to a local grocery store so I can check myself out. We also use one at the library since all of our books are bar coded.</p>
<p>Actually, I think the web itself is the most amazing thing I have seen. Think about all the ways you use it now, from this message board, Google (amazing itself), VOIP, music (I love my internet radio station), movies, blogs, maps, Google Earth, and you can make your own TIVO with it (and no monthly fees).</p>
<p>In no particular order:</p>
<p>Internet
Birth control pill
Epidural
DVR (true-not as good as Tivo, but it’s all I got)
Vaccines
Public libraries
Netflix
Contact Lenses
Food Processor
Ebay</p>
<p>Gee the only “invention” I truly love is my daughter. The rest I can do with out, but I do “like” some of them…</p>
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Has she been patented yet?? ~b.</p>
<p>Luggage on wheels</p>
<p>If you like this thread, you may be interested in checking out the book ‘Our Own Devices’ by Edward Tenner (<a href=“http://www.edwardtenner.com/)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.edwardtenner.com/)</a>. It discusses how some inventions have changed society and vice-a-versa, and generally in unintended ways. The first chapter is about the baby bottle. It started to bog down a bit for me around the recliner chapter, but I expect I’ll pick it up again.</p>
<p>I don’t have it here but in the past, I have used a neighborhood poo pick up service. They would visit your yard and pick up all poo for $20.</p>
<p>$20??!! Wow, I know what my retirement career will be. Sure beats being a greeter at Walmart at minimum wage.</p>
<p>As it only took 15 minutes to do each yard, the ‘wage’ was more like $70 per hour. They made enough to advertise in the local papers.</p>
<p>Remind me again … why am I spending over 40 grand a year to send my son to college when I could give him a pooper scooper and a yellow page ad?</p>
<p>Because you want him to be a fully educated intellectual?</p>
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<p>Don’t tell me you actually bought into that scam!!!</p>
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<p>When I go to Walmart to buy products for the kids, I have to write down on a piece of paper exactly what they want because there are so many product choices and heaven help you if you forget to get “wings.”</p>
<p>I have to agree that luggage on wheels has taken the world by storm.</p>
<p>I put in a vote for word-processing/spreadsheets/Printmaster programs. I can make my own charts, flyers, posters and cards now that look pretty good.</p>
<p>Computers and high speed internet connections still amaze me, but I can’t believe no one has mentioned digital cameras. Emom has become a photo junky. I would have to count but I think she has taken about 3000 pictures in the past 6 months. I keep burning CD’s to free up hard drive space. In the past 4 years we have about 30 CD’s and the rate is increasing. I guess I need to get a DVD burner.</p>
<p>audiophile -ROFL.</p>
<p>ellenemope - try buying deoderant for a guy. Even after DS told me he wanted Old Sprice RedZone, there’s about a zillion choices - 3 shelves high, dozens of rows on each shelf. Do you want Classic? Pure Gel? High Endurance? Pure Sport? etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>Don’t get me started on shampoo.</p>
<p>jmmom, I buy whichever anti-perspirant is on sale or discontinued and is priced at a $1.00. I buy a bunch for our family. My older son, on the other hand, has more money than I do. He requires deoderant/fragrance “kits”. He buys “Axe” and they seem to have several gift sets/kits available, and my son finds them all! Last summer, he worked in retail and had too much time on his hands, so he discovered them all. At least he got a few dollars off with his employee discount. Lot of money to be made by selling to customers like my son.</p>