Tommorow's World

[Renard]

Here's a question for you. Can anyone think of an invention shown on TW that made it into everyday use?

 

[Maz]

Didn't compact discs appear on TW way back when?

 

[longers]

The lodger says mobile phones were on the show.

 

[rich p]

The shaving mirror that doesn't steam up? Perhaps not!

 

[longers]

Wiki says :-

* The Breathalyser (1967)
* The ATM (1969)
* The pocket calculator (1971)
* The digital watch (1972)
* Teletext (Ceefax) (1975)
* The personal stereo (1980)
* The compact disc and player (1981)
* The camcorder (1981)
* Barcode reader (1983)
* Radio Automation, pioneered on Pirate FM 102 (1992)
* Clockwork radio (1993)

 

[ufkacbln]

An awful lot appeared as either prototypes or theories that ended up on the market in some form

 

[LLB]

I remember watching a quarry lorry fitted with a reversing sensor being shown on there in 1969. I was just a tiddler, but little kids, big tonka toys etc etc, and it stuck in my mind long enough to make sense of it

 

[palinurus]

The Microwave oven.

 

[derall]

All sorts of medical devices from Mobile Kidney Dialasis to Cochlear Implants

 

[BigonaBianchi]

clockwork radio?

the wheel?

 

[ianrauk]

Didn't compact discs appear on TW way back when?

Yep, I remember, they dunked one in water, jam and all sorts of gunk, cleaned it up and played it.. Amazing eh?

 

[Carwash]

Yep, I remember, they dunked one in water, jam and all sorts of gunk, cleaned it up and played it.. Amazing eh?

Yeah! Those things are indestructible, scratch-resistant, the whole thing!!

Oh, wait...

 

[Rob S]

Kirk Presicion?

 

[dodgy]

Where's my flying car, dammit!

 

[Auntie Helen]

I remember them doing a special toothpaste with enzymes in it that would help your teeth avoid fillings. When the product was marketed a couple of years later (Zendium by Oral I switched to it and it made a huge difference. It's now gone out of production but I always remembered that it was a space-age toothpaste as it had been on Tomorrow's World.