Leaf blower. They are loud and the "breath" coming from them is pretty awesome.
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Bicycles. If we could have gotten bicycles a few centuries before cars, I don't think modern cities would be so damn car centric.
If I may ask, where are you from? The city I live in is a nightmare for cars, the roads were made for horses and walking, narrow and winding cobblestone streets and the city tries its best to keep cars out of the center.
A Furby.
A single glass coca-cola bottle
You must be crazy. ;)
Hey this might help us out. If Neanderthals learn how to sit for hrs a day we would get that evolutionary advantage.
An LED light bulb.
That singing fish animatronic. Convinced people itβs a god. Wait for the battery to die and the eventual religious crisis.
A solar panel with a light attached.
A bicycle.
Anything mechanical, even someone in 5000bc would be able to figure out how it works.
I think the problem would be recreation. Can't really make an effective chain out of wood I assume.
A Nintendo Switch running Animal Crossing. Assume it has some kind of perpetual battery, and they can figure out how to operate it/play the game, and read our modern English.
I'm thinking they figure modern civilisation is about (or back to) fishing and farming... and that animals are intelligent. Like validating TF outta the Egyptian pantheon. You're a human but you have a dog for a neighbor, here's a koala, a gorilla, an eagle... and they all talk and wear clothes.
(Of course, if we wanna blow their minds with a game AND we can assume they can play it, why not just go straight to Cyberpunk?)
Something with gears. Like a cranked egg whisk. Huge amounts of science went into this, but all of it should be replicable in a few generations of experiment with even bronze working. And it should inspire inventors of the age too
A snow globe from Niagra Falls, a clothes hanger, A Buttplug, a die cast Model of The General Lee, some Tide pods, an assortment of Weeble Wobbleβs, The Complete Jane Fonda Workout (large print, hardback edition), A magnifying glass, A bag of Candy Corn.
You're just listing all the things within arms reach, aren't you?
These items are in my go bag.
Arms reach because theyβve all just been pulled out of an ass.
Need justifications
i would give them nuclear weapons
Yeah finish off human race before it begins
One of those pens from bawdy seaside resorts where you press the button on the end and the lady's clothes disappear. Might as well be magic.
Magnets
And for generations people will ask βMagnets, how do they fucking work?β
Just wait til they discover long neck giraffes, pet cats, and dogs
oh I'd teach 'em modern english, and then dump a truck load of People's Magazine's outside their hut
Going for a hunt today? Can't. Need to know what Janniston said to Branjelo on page 4
a slot machine and a battery to keep it running
Condoms
Flashlights.
Fleshlights
Flushlights.
Yes, toilet illuminators, what of it?
A bottle with a highly concentrated solution of polonium, radium, plutonium or anything spicy and ionizing.
Preferably coupled with something that glows nicely, like ZnS. Just pick a suitable fluorescent dye and make it blue or green for bonus points.