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Patented: History of Inventions

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The magna vox odise was released in 19 72. It was designed by ralph ber who'd had this idea of, how can we make television more exciting? How could we interat with it? This was a very radical idea. People had embraced television into their lives in the fifties and sixties,. but the most intractive it got was pressing a remote control button. And he came up with this idea, almost like a game box, very similar to a modern consol. So when you bought it, you would get overlays to put across your television. You'd get board game elements, so you had some dice, poker chips, paper money. There

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