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Time Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year

» Time's Inventions of the Year. Their choice for Best Invention of the Year is YouTube—and the list is filled with many other worthy contenders. A bike-riding robot, a levitating bed (suspended midair using repelling magnets), a device that cleans foods by superoxygenating ordinary tap water, a flower-shaped lamp that monitors household energy usage and rewards low power consumption by opening it's "petals", and something I've wanted for a long time: the home wind turbine, which can generate up to 80% of the average household's electricity. Now, it Time would invent better navigation for their selections next year (what's wrong with a list?), I'll be a confirmed fan.
 [ 11.14.06 ]




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