Hawkeye_x_Hawkeye t1_j8rbc7s wrote on February 16, 2023 at 11:54 AM

Reply to This electric toothbrush plays “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child while you brush your teeth by pervertedgiant

I remember when these came out. They vibrated the song against your teeth and used your mouth as the speaker. It was weird.

Hawkeye_x_Hawkeye t1_j69qr8u wrote on January 28, 2023 at 7:42 PM

Reply to this dentist lamp kind of looks like a water buffalo by orcsrool123

It doesn't kind of look like a water buffalo

It looks exactly like a water buffalo

Hawkeye_x_Hawkeye t1_iydeuoi wrote on November 30, 2022 at 4:03 PM

Reply to comment by PM_UR_NUMBER_IN_HEX in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

According to the wiki, it was invented in the 1930s. Its not fictional, it's a theoretical model of a working machine. The concept existed prior to the existence of computers. Would the inventor of image broadcasting owe credit of their invention to the inventor of the camera?

Hawkeye_x_Hawkeye t1_iyddn0x wrote on November 30, 2022 at 3:55 PM

Reply to comment by ChadlyThe3rd in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

Or like those guys at that compression company that discovered middle out compression during a conversion about mass handjob logistics.

Hawkeye_x_Hawkeye t1_iyddewa wrote on November 30, 2022 at 3:53 PM

Reply to comment by ucanttrustapenguin in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

>The OPs headline is incorrect. You can’t say he invented “television” when he didn’t and wasn’t the first to demonstrate a television broadcast.

This is like saying the inventor of the home computer didn't invent it because the Turing machine already existed.