MagazineTime has just released its selection of the 50 best inventions of 2010.
Among those chosen in the field of new technologies, the popularApple iPad tableta; Square, the iPhone payment system devised by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey; theLooxcie headphone camcorder, which can record 30-second clips of our life and share them through social networks instantly; and theSony Alpha A55 photo camera. Also on the list are Google’s driverless car, therobot-salvavidas EMILYthat works by remote control, theultralight car Edison2and the laser device for catching mosquitoes developed by Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures, so specific that it does not harm any other insect or living being. Besides ofTerrafugia Transition, a two-seater propeller plane, with folding wings, considered the first vehicle that can travel on the road and also fly.
MagazineTime also highlights the invention ofPlastics, a boat made of thousands of PET plastic bottles, and a new washing machine from the British company Xeros that uses hardly any water to wash clothes. In addition, in the ranking mention is made of theorgan bioprintercreated by the companies Invetech and Organovo (San Francisco, USA). And to the “algorithm for the identification of sarcasm” developed by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Sugru, an incredible material made from silicone that allows us not only to repair or improve our objects but to personalize them and even create new ones.
