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Gallery: The 100 Best Innovations of 2010

Our Best of What's New 2010 winners, all in one place

Posted 12.20.10 at 12:42 pm 5 Comments

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Home Technology: Beaton Innovations Waletale

Tile-setter Joel Beaton spent 17 years inhaling dust from powdered grout and mortar, which often leads to “potter’s rot,” or silicosis, an occupational lung disease marked by asthmatic symptoms. Now Beaton has invented a vacuum attachment that snaps onto a mixing bucket and keeps dust from escaping. The tool evenly distributes the vacuum’s suction so it draws in the maximum amount of debris. It’s a simple idea, with brilliant results. $20; waletale.net

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holabird

12/20/10 at 2:38 pm

Pikes Peak is in Colorado. EH?

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inaka_rob

12/20/10 at 11:34 pm

I am sorry. I have a single HDMI wire running from my pc to my TV. how much is it going to cost to get rid of this wire. its free right? no I have to PAY to get rid of one tiny almost loss less HDMI cable.
also my TV is my PC. I guess stuff like this and apple and google TV is perfect for people like parents.

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inaka_rob

12/21/10 at 1:56 am

Coolest: USB 3. Wifi Alliance. Improved Scramjet tech. Unmanned reusable space ship. Palm Nailer, Hand held ultra sound. Sealegs boat with wheels. Patriot AR drone. FAIL: Sony move. The product is cool and not a fail. It just shouldn't be on this list becuase of it is simply sony's version of the Wii mote. Also fail: onLive. onLive can and probably will be really cool. Right now it doesn't offer a single recent game. All the games are years old. you can put a pc together for 200 bucks that will run most of the games they are offering at this point. Fail: Google TV. Any body who is tech savy has had their pc or laptop wired to their TV for years. It is the only way I watch tv or movie now. The only time I use a remote control is when I turn on my TV. I control everyone thing from my pc after that.

I actually want to buy the Kor-fx but 200 bucks is way too much.

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Moon born

12/22/10 at 1:10 am

Philips EnduraLED's make trees in the Sahara live.

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Observer

12/31/10 at 12:21 pm

"398 pound-feet of torque"?? Torque is measured in foot-pounds. 398 foot-pounds of torque. "pound-feet" is meaningless. Unless one is weighing feet (recipe for pigs feet perhaps)? Pounding feet (medieval torture)?

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