The 100 fastest, biggest, safest, greenest and most powerful innovations of the year
Posted 12.09.2008 at 12:36 pm
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For decades, we've fantasized about watching paper-thin TVs, soaring hundreds of feet with personal jetpacks, riding in cars that drive themselves, and re-growing organs.
The 21st annual Best of What's New celebrates all of those dreams coming true. Now we've collected them all into one single slideshow. Launch it here to learn about these achievements and 96 other breakthroughs that, whether long awaited or completely unexpected, are equally amazing.
Please click here to launch the list.
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wow.. this is a damn good compilation.. hadn't heard about many of these things earlier.. a few things could have been added, like green fuels (such as the ones from algae)..
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Wonder when the 2009 results come out especially as we are now in a recession - will we still see the same R&D development going forward?
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That's just crazy... I really like to see how scientists and engineers work to change our world, that's fascinating !
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I've heard about a lot of these, in the news, on the science and history channel, on other websites, but still a surprise and still amazing!!!
In 1980's we could watch like these things on cartoons. Very nice post for me, thank you.
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So many great innovations. I can't even begin to imagine what we'll see in another 25 years...
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So many fantastic inventions but for some reason I cant get past number 68 as the same page keeps loading.
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