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Top 10 Inventions of 2008

Top 10 Inventions of 2008. By: Jack Bullis. #10: Bionic Contacts. University of Washington’s Babak Parviz created prototype bionic lens Creates display over user’s eye: images, maps, data, etc. Appear to float in mid-air Used tiny LEDs, powered by solar cells, and a radio frequency receiver.

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Top 10 Inventions of 2008

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  1. Top 10 Inventions of 2008 By: Jack Bullis

  2. #10: Bionic Contacts • University of Washington’s Babak Parviz created prototype bionic lens • Creates display over user’s eye: images, maps, data, etc. • Appear to float in mid-air • Used tiny LEDs, powered by solar cells, and a radio frequency receiver

  3. #9: Shadowless Skyscraper • Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron • Designers of Beijing’s “Bird Nest” • 50 story tall building • Le Project Triangle, combination office/hotel building • First skyscraper approved in 31 years since the Paris ban on high-rise buildings • Slender glass-steel triangle, shark fin, apparently won’t cast shadows

  4. #8: Green Crude Oil • Scientists use algae to make a biofuel literally the same as gasoline • Quang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld at Arizona State • Carbon-neutral, allowing no carbon-monoxide emissions from cars using the fuel

  5. #7: Internet in Space • Send email, use internet in space thanks to new protocol • Internet have to be especially tolerant of delays and disruptions • Makes space life easier for tourist and other astronauts to stay connected to life on Earth

  6. #6: Hulu.com • Internet TV, movies, amateur vidoes, etc. • Make cable TV obsolete • Free videos • Alternative to Youtube’s wide assortment of videos, Hulu more orderly • Proved that studio content can coexist with user created content online

  7. #5: Bullets that shootbullets • Active Protection Service • Star Wars for soldiers • Detects incoming RPG’s or bullets • Fires counter missile to destroy • Happens within split second • Equals less armor for army vehicles

  8. #4: Moving Scyscraper • All 80 floors rotate 360 degrees • Designed by Italian architect David Fisher • Located in Dubai, another planned to be built in Moscow • Rooms sell from $3.7 to $36 million • Total cost to be built $700 million

  9. #3: Tesla Roadster • Battery powered • Reaches up to 125 mph, costs $100,000 • Celebrities like George Clooney on waiting list • First proposed in 2003, first cars delivered 2008

  10. #2: Synthetic Organism • J. Craig Venter pieced together the genome of living organism with all man-made materials • Within next year is predicting a full-blown cell • Could mix/match genomes to form endless mix of organisms • Possibly one that cures cancer

  11. #1: Sixth Sense • Wearable computing system • Cellphone • Camera • Turns any surface into display • Access to internet; social networking, food info, etc. • Costs only $350 to make • Use fingertips to use • Change the world we live in http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

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