TIME Magazine's Inventions of the Year

[jeffy777]

Thought this was interesting:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/20...677346,00.html

Use the menu at the top to navigate to different categories.

Couple samples:

In the Law and Order category:



"High-speed chases may be money shots in Hollywood, but everywhere else they're just dangerous. The StarChase Pursuit Management System uses a laser-guided launcher mounted on the front grill of a cop car to tag fleeing vehicles with a GPS tracking device. Then the fuzz can hang back as real-time location data are sent to police headquarters."


Computers:



"Imagine a cell phone you could roll up like a sheet of paper, or a computer screen flexible enough to wrap around a pillar. This spring LG.Philips and Sony demonstrated flexible displays that can do just that. Both ultra-thin screens use organic leds that display 16.7 million colors. Flexible screens have been shown before, but these mark a step up in durability and quality, and bring us closer to a future when the unyieldingly rigid gadgets we now covet will be obsolete."

[Hidden_Hunter]

iPhone winning, wow what a surprise.
I think that the flexiable display is much more deserving personally, invention of the year for me should be something that shows us a glimpse of the future not something that while it maybe good is still essentially a product that's been on sale for 20 years.

[jeffy777]

Originally Posted by Hidden_Hunter

iPhone winning, wow what a surprise.
I think that the flexiable display is much more deserving personally, invention of the year for me should be something that shows us a glimpse of the future not something that while it maybe good is still essentially a product that's been on sale for 20 years.

Agreed. Seems more like a plug for Apple than anything.