What are your moninations for great inventions that we use every dday, but totally take for granted?

[Impret-Sir]

Mine is the ball point pen, very cheap, reliable, convenient, clean and brilliant at what it does.

[Whickerman]

The toilet.

[Clanad]

The pocket on your shirt... In fact here in the western U.S. there's a saying that supplants the old "...sliced bread..." one and it's "Handier than the pocket on your shirt"... Following that, I would nominate electric nose hair trimmers...

[spaced]

the wheel

[Kerplunk]

You use your nose hair trimmer every day !! wow.

But seriously, how about shoes?

[WoWo]

Alarm clock, the world would be Chaos without them.

[OBonio]

WoWo, my world is chaos because of alarm clocks :oP

My nomination would be the internet.

[Impret-Sir]

My other one would be, possibly mankinds greatest ever invention, the written word.

[stevie_c2it]

I moninate - Spell checker :)

[stevie21]

Condoms :-D

[camioneur]

The "off" button on the tele