Travel to the past but can bring just one piece of modern tech with you

[pinbi7]

Would be annoying more than anything. Would have to make your own custom charging method.

i might be out of the loop,i use android not iphone , but can't you just plug it into the wall or use an induction coil?

 

[H1B1Esquire]

Ay, why don't you guys state that you know how to make a Baghdad battery? Maybe, can we all agree that we all have solar charging cases on our phones before going back in time? As well as the ability to "communicate our ideas effectively without being tried for: heresy, witchcraft, seditious acts, etc,?

 

[x65943]

Would be annoying more than anything. Would have to make your own custom charging method.

idk does bringing a device back with you really not involve its charger?

 

[pinbi7]

Ay, why don't you guys state that you know how to make a Baghdad battery? Maybe, can we all agree that we all have solar charging cases on our phones before going back in time? As well as the ability to "communicate our ideas effectively without being tried for: heresy, witchcraft, seditious acts, etc,?

1999 i'm taking my smartphone back to 1999

 

[H1B1Esquire]

Ay, all you guys trying to make money, Murrica will jizz in your butt:

Andy Carlssin took $800.00 to $350,000,00.00 in two weeks.
Even if you're good, great, amazing, godly, they gonna hate.
Welcome to Earth.

 

[Ryab]

idk does bringing a device back with you really not involve its charger?

I would count the device and its connectors as separate items.

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i might be out of the loop,i use android not iphone , but can't you just plug it into the wall or use an induction coil?

Not if you don't have the cables

 

[x65943]

I would count the device and its connectors as separate items.

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Not if you don't have the cables

I think you should be able to take the whole sealed box back with you - which for most phones involves a charger

 

[pinbi7]

Not if you don't have the cables

I would count the device and its connectors as separate items.

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Not if you don't have the cables

seems a bit stubborn to say "oh you can't do X" on a totally hypothetical question
but w/e i'll just whip up a iphone charger when i finish building my time machine

 

[Ryab]

seems a bit stubborn to say "oh you can't do X" on a totally hypothetical question
but w/e i'll just whip up a iphone charger when i build my time machine

I mean it can be taken any way you wish. That was just my interpretation.

 

[SylverReZ]

Go back to the Stone Age and demonstrate them the gun.

 

[x65943]

Go back to the Stone Age and demonstrate them the gun.

AKA Robinson Crusoe

 

[mrdude]

I think you should be able to take the whole sealed box back with you - which for most phones involves a charger

It's kind of pointless having a charger without electricity and an AC outlet to plug it into though. You'd also need to be able to generate elecricity - and you'd then become the guy that invented that as well???

 

[JuanMena]

It's kind of pointless having a charger without electricity and an AC outlet to plug it into though. You'd also need to be able to generate elecricity - and you'd then become the guy that invented that as well???

Easy, magnets, bobine and coil.

 

[mrdude]

Easy, magnets, bobine and coil.

I know how to make elecricity dude, but you're only allowed to take one thing back with you back with you - you'd be taking more than one thing with all of that.

 

[FAST6191]

Sink the ship from Christopher Columbus...
Even Hitler would be solved, he would not have the idea, money and support from usa.
In 1928, Hitler remarked, approvingly, that white settlers in America had “gunned down 5 million of redskins to a few hundred thousand.”
And 90-95% wars would have been prevented.

Given the vikings had been there before and blue water navigation was becoming a thing there would surely have been someone along at some point, and in enough time to introduce the diseases. Aztecs might have been saved as that was a bit of a gambit but that might just as easily be delayed.

Wars wise plenty of scope for such things -- populations would grow in Europe (can't be having youth milling about doing nothing), famine would hit at one point, industrial revolution would give someone an edge...

edit. Forgot to mention re calculator. Certainly could have some fun but for accounts the bigger invention depending upon how far you go back is double entry book keeping and that is an idea more than an invention. Similar things would also see you do standardisation of engineering parts and measurements.

 

[x65943]

It's kind of pointless having a charger without electricity and an AC outlet to plug it into though. You'd also need to be able to generate elecricity - and you'd then become the guy that invented that as well???

That specific person chose to go back to 1999 with the phone tho

 

[caipora]

I wish i could go back the exact point in time and space where people were creating Pong, Tetris and these really old games and simply blast on those PCs with last generation hardware plugged on a 4K monitor and launch Elden Ring.
Their faces would be priceless. Then i would vanish like an hallucination.

 

[x65943]

I recently bought a bootleg English version of pokemon green from AliExpress, I would bring it back to the late 90s and instantly become the coolest kid on the playground

 

[shaunj66]

Does medicine count? If so, I'd take the smallpox vaccine back to the 1800s

 

[x65943]

Does medicine count? If so, I'd take the smallpox vaccine back to the 1800s

Interestingly the smallpox vaccine was created in the late 1700s and already compulsory in some places by the very early 1800s (before 1810)

But anyhow since vaccine is inoculation with cowpox, you could actually go to any prior time and start to vaccinate directly from a cowpox lesion without bringing back any tools/vaccine material with you