Everyday Innovations

Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

Today we’re going to talk about one of the most multifaceted items humanity has ever invented, yet one of the most overlooked due to its simplistic nature — the safety pin.

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

This episode gets us in a sticky situation amidst wartime efforts as we explore Silly Putty, the forefather of slime, and the proof that science is, more often than not, just the result of contrived coincidences, accidental brilliance, terrible business choices, and a sprinkle of unpaid labor.

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

Today we are going to explore the origins of one of the world's most distinguished novelty items, a mainstay in the playgrounds of both children and slightly tipsy adults, and one of the most eye-catching paperweights ever produced — the Magic 8-Ball.

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.” This gem came from the genius of George Carlin and if you’ve ever played with a Frisbee (and honestly, who hasn’t?) it rings so very true.

There are very few activities that are so simple, fun, cheap and many times infuriating as tossing around a Frisbee. This episode of EVERYDAY INNOVATIONS explores that crazy little flying disc known as the “Frisbee.”

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

“To err is human.” Alexander Pope’s proverb will remains accurate, but even those mistakes he spoke of can also give birth to inspiration. In this episode we focus on the attempt to correct our imperfections and the invention resulting from that endeavor. This is EVERYDAY INNOVATIONS: “Correction Fluid.”

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

Picture this: It’s a dark and stormy night and you are struggling to make your way home. The rain is sheeting and blowing at turns. There aren’t many other cars on the road—okay, you are THE ONLY car out on such a miserable evening—because the year is 1905.

This episode explores the innovations leading to the creation of the modern automobile windshield wiper.

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

While serving a practical purpose to shield our sensitive eyes, sunglasses may be at the apex of fashion’s definition of cool. And that’s just what this episode is about…Sunglasses.

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

This episode explores the innovations leading to the creation of the hook-and-loop fastener. Doesn’t ring a bell? How about the ‘zipperless zipper’ or ‘touch fastener,’ as it’s sometimes referred to? No? This handy little invention is also an example of a metonymy, in which a brand name product comes to represent all of the products in the industry. Give up? It’s Velcro!

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Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

Mirrors have been treated with an almost magical reverence throughout history, as reflected in oral tradition tales and literature. From Alice slipping through one to enter a magical world, to the hag’s talking mirror in Snow White telling her who is the fairest of them all, mirrors have come a long way to claim its present-day prominence.

Everyday Innovations is a short form podcast. On the Everyday Innovations Podcast we take a look at small things that make a big impact.

This episode dives into the world of exotic glamour or, at the very least, the easily accessible kind with the Cocktail Umbrella.