Iphone more important than painkillers!

Don’t get me wrong I love the iPhone and it’s a fun, useful and innovative addition to the worlds inventions but it’s hardly the most important invention in history!

A study in by Tesco mobile of 18-65 year olds in the UK rather embarrassingly placed the iphone ahead of the flushing toilet and painkillers as one of the most important inventions in history.

Where did Tesco conduct this survey Hello magazine?

While the wheel was voted as the most important (although I’m sure we could get along without it but how would we live without anti-biotics?) the iPhone came eighth ahead of the internal combustion engine which came tenth!

Painkillers came in at 15th while glasses came in at 20! Interesting that the public are OK having an iphone even if they cant see the damn thing!

Far be it from me to tar the British nation with the stupidity brush but I can’t help feeling that a world without painkillers, cars or spectacles would be hugely different while a world without the iPhone would be a little less fun but would hardly change at all!

Lance Batchelor, Chief Executive Officer of Tesco Mobile said:

“No wonder the iPhone has been flying off the shelves at Tesco, as it allows us to have everything we need at our finger tips.”

He was strangely silent however about the education system in the UK!

It’s a sad reflection on the public (or perhaps on how the survey was conducted) that such items as hair-straighteners appeared fairly high up on the list at number 34 above the bicycle and matches!

Lance Batchelor did add however:

“It’s amazing to see how much the iPhone is valued, sitting alongside inventions such as Penicillin in people’s perceptions and being declared a more important invention than miracle gadgets of their own time, such as the compass.”

I don’t think I would have been quite so diplomatic!

Here are the top 100 greatest inventions according to Tesco mobiles survey!

1. Wheel 2. Aeroplane 3. Light bulb 4. Internet 5. PCs 6. Telephone 7. Penicillin 8. iPhone 9. Flushing toilet 10. Combustion engine 11. Contraceptive pill 12. Washing machine 13. Central heating 14. Fridge 15. Pain killers 16. Steam engine 17. Freezer 18. Camera 19. Cars 20. Spectacles 21. Mobile phones 22. Toilet paper 23. Hoover 24. Trains 25. Google 26. Microwave 27. Email 28. The pen 29. Hot water 30. Shoe 31. Compass 32. Ibuprofen 33. Toothbrush 34. Hair straighteners 35. Laptops 36. Knife and fork 37. Scissors 38. Paper 39. Space travel 40. Kettle 41. Calculator 42. Bed 43. Remote control 44. Roof 45. Air conditioning 46. SAT NAV 47. Wi-Fi 48. Cats-eyes 49. Matches 50. Power steering 51. Tumble dryer 52. Bicycle 53. Sky+ 54. Tea bags 55. Umbrella 56. iPod 57. Taps 58. Crash helmet 59. Wristwatch 60. eBay 61. DVD player 62. Nappies 63. Ladder 64. Sun tan lotion 65. Lawnmower 66. Make-up 67. Chairs 68. Sunglasses 69. The game of football 70. Sliced bread 71. Sofa 72. Razor blades 73. Screwdriver 74. Motorways 75. Head/ear phones 76. Towels 77. Push-up bra 78. Binoculars 79. WD40 80. Mascara 81. Hair dryer 82. Facebook 83. Escalator 84. Hair dye 85. Wellington boots 86. Spell check 87. Calendars 88. Cheese grater 89. Buses 90. Post-it notes 91. Gloves 92. Satellite discs 93. Pedestrian crossing 94. Baby’s dummy 95. Curtains 96. Bottle opener 97. Food blender 98. Dustpan and brush 99. Desks 100. Clothes peg

I don’t think we can conclude anything from this survey other than the fact that Tescos marketing division have a lot of time on their hands!

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