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The 50 Greatest Innovations of the Year.

posted by hubie on Monday December 25, @03:37PM   

Snotnose writes:

Come for the Loona bedside urinal, stay for the ShockStop power-dildo, and enjoy the Army Tactical Bra. (Stolen from fark.com)

Here at Popular Science we celebrate innovation. Whether it's a new medical treatment, infrastructure project, consumer product, or big idea, they almost always spring up as the solution to a problem. Some honorees address age-old annoyances while others speak to larger and even existential issues that profoundly affect people around the globe. This year, we've selected honorees that exemplify this desire to improve people's lives, just as we have every year since 1988.

You can read all about it here.

[It looks like quite a few of these have been submitted as SoylentNews stories by our community over the last year, so thank you all -- Ed.]

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• They're making model F keyboards again... They're making model F keyboards again... (Score: 5, Informative) by RamiK on Monday December 25, @04:23PM (3 children)

  by RamiK (1813) on Monday December 25, @04:23PM (#1337708)

  Metal top to bottom but with modern controllers: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/store/ [modelfkeyboards.com]

  Wouldn't have mentioned it but that popsci piece mentioned one of the cherry keys so...

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  • Re:They're making model F keyboards again... Re:They're making model F keyboards again... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25, @07:48PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25, @07:48PM (#1337728)

    They have been around a long time. Was that a secret?

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    • Re:They're making model F keyboards again... Re:They're making model F keyboards again... (Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday December 25, @09:40PM (1 child)

      by RamiK (1813) on Monday December 25, @09:40PM (#1337740)

      I figured if a keyboard switch can get a listing under "50 greatest innovations of 2023", the end-of-the-year sale for a real buckling spring in metal frame keyboard that's going for about the same price is worth a mention.

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      • Re:They're making model F keyboards again... (Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday December 25, @10:12PM

        by RamiK (1813) on Monday December 25, @10:12PM (#1337741)

        Oh, and in case it wasn't clear, I wasn't talking about the Unicomp model M (plastic) or even the 2021 model F. I'm talking about the new "new" beam spring switches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR_Uiw83y3k [youtube.com]

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• Short list (Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Monday December 25, @07:50PM

  by looorg (578) on Monday December 25, @07:50PM (#1337729)

  A lot of the consumer stuff just seems to be minor tweaks to things that already existed -- sleeping bags, headphones, coffee makers, various vehicles, hammers etc etc. Hardly the greatest innovations of our time. So I'm not sure a lot of them would even be considered as ground breaking. Perhaps that bio-printed knee replacement from space, they just have to fix it so you can print it on earth or they'll be very expensive with the shipping and such.

  Out of the list the only one I tested or seen in real life is the Bambu Labs 3D printer. It's nice. Not sure it's that much better then the rest of them but it was just a lot less fiddling around. Now if they can make it print resin quality without the resin ... Also the price will come down I assume to the level of others with time and quantity. Or all the others are going to start to copy everything that Bambu does with theirs. Cause I don't want to play around with thousands of little settings, most of the time I just want to print stuff.

• Disguised advertisements? (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26, @05:58AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26, @05:58AM (#1337765)

  My guess is it's a few innovations mixed in with a bunch of advertisements?