Top Inventions of 2010 by Time

As I was looking for an idea for my post after sometime, i got this idea from Time.com....Here are the to inventions of the year 2010 divided into few categories


TECHNOLOGY




 iPad


Tablet computer by Apple and at about 1.5 pounds (680 grams), its size and weight fall between those of contemporary smart phones and laptop computers. Apple released the iPad in April 2010, and sold 3 million of the devices in 80 days



Flipboard

iPad app Flipboard grabs updates, photos and links from your friends and other interesting people, then reformatting everything in a wonderfully browsable, magazine-like format

Looxcie

a camera worn over the ear, ups the ante

Kickstarter

a website where anyone can donate any amount to a project in development, with no money changing hands until a minimum threshold has been met

Square

Square lets anyone process credit cards. you certainly don't need to wait for a receipt: sign on the screen, and Square sends a copy straight to e-mail

Sony Alpha A55 Camera

A hybrid camera like a compact camera, is from the ground up built around live view, but one that is also capable of offering full-time DSLR-style phase-detection autofocus.






TRANSPORTATION


Amtrak's Beef-Powered Train

The biodiesel is made from rendered cattle fat. Biodiesel from beef burns cleaner than plant biodiesel, though it may not be scalable outside the beef belt.

Google's Driverless Car


A project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars







Martin Jetpack

the world’s first practical jetpack. It consists of a purpose-built gasoline engine driving twin ducted fans which produce sufficient thrust to lift the aircraft and a pilot in vertical takeoff and landing, enabling sustained flight.











Edison2

a car weighs less than 800 lb/ 363 kg







Antro Electric Car

A three-seater with a hybrid drive and solar cells on its roof that are capable of deliver enough power to propel a single three-seater 12.5 miles before the other power source is required.






Electric-Car Charging Stations


 













The Straddling Bus

The partly solar-powered behemoth will span two lanes and carry up to 1,200 people in a carriage raised 7 ft. above the roadway, thus allowing cars to pass, or be passed, underneath

Road-Embedded Rechargers

Engineers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology are experimenting with embedding

electric strips in roadbeds that magnetically transfer energy to battery-powered vehicles above

Terrafugia Transition

Transition is a street-legal, airworthy, airbag-and-parachute-equipped flying car that at $200,000 is priced less than a Lamborghini





The Plastic-Bottle Boat

60-ft. catamaran built with 12,500 recycled plastic bottles and a fully recyclable plastic material called Seretex and held together with organic glue made from cashew-nut husks and sugarcane

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

The Malaria-Proof Mosquito and The Mosquito Laser

A laser that can zap mosquitoes without harming other insects or humans.














The laser targets the mosquitoes' size and signature wing beat and sends the bugs down in a burst of flame




NeoNurture Incubator

An incubator using old car parts functioning as an incubators to nurture premature newborns. Headlights provide heat; a repurposed dashboard fan circulates air; a door-chime and signal-lightinto assembly is assembled an alarm system that alerts nurses when any faulty is detected from the heating system












eLegs Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton which is robotic prosthetic legs use artificial intelligence to "read" the wearer's arm gestures inspired by military exoskeletons via a set of crutches, simulating a natural human gait and it was that soldiers strap on to lift heavy packs. The device is initially available only at rehabilitation centers.





  


EyeWriter

Uses low-cost eye-tracking glasses and open-source software to allow people suffering from any kind of neuromuscular syndrome to write and draw by 

 tracking their eye movement and translating it to lines on a screen. Kinda saying drawing with your eyes.

BIOENGINEERING

First Synthetic Cell

J. Craig Venter managed to reconstruct the genome of a bacterium that successfully "booted up," dividing and replicating just like any other bug 


 
Lab-Grown Lungs

Researchers have re-created the delicate architecture of a rat lung accurately enough for it to assume 95% of a normal lung's inhaling and exhaling functions
The ultimate goal is to replicate the feat on a larger scale: to replace enough human lung tissue to aid patients with emphysema or lung cancer




3-D Bioprinter

Is a printer for human organs consists of two printheads
one that sprays out a gel that forms a sort of armature for an organ and another that fills in that scaffolding with living cells with a precision within microns
Livers, kidneys and other replacement components including teeth  could be built on demand, with no wait for a donor and less risk of rejection, since the cells are harvested straight from the patient





Faster-Growing Salmon

A gene from Chinook salmon with DNA from an eel like creature called an ocean pout makes salmongrow twice as fast can , making them easier to farm.

Green Energy

Deep Green Underwater Kite

Resembles a child's toy as it swoops and dives in ocean currents and as a small turbine attached to the kite, it can generate 800 times more energy than if it were in the sky. It can even generate 500 kilowatts of power in calm waters






Body Powered Devices

Everything we do generates power — about 1 watt per breath, 70 watts per step
Turning locomotion into power is successfully done by embedding piezoelectric crystals into a flexible, biocompatible rubberlike material that, when bent, allows the crystals to produce energy.
Put the crystals in shoes, say, or implant them directly into the body and they could produce enough power to charge personal electronics or internal medical devices.





Power-Aware Cord

This cord embeds wires around a cable that pulse light in relation to how much electricity is being drawn off the grid. The more current, the brighter and faster the blue light spirals









Bloom Box

Being at about half the size of a shipping container, it generates electricity using solid oxide fuel cells, which provide juice by oxidizing a fuel source
In the case of the Bloom Box, that fuel source is natural gas. Companies like Google and eBay are already using Bloom Boxes for greener backup power, at a cost of about $800,000 each

The (Almost) Waterless Washing Machine

The company is developing a machine that draws cleaning power from reusable, stain-absorbing nylon beads, requiring much less water; as much as 90% less than a normal washing machine






CLOTHING


BioCouture

A material made by the bacteria that are usually used to turn green tea into the fermented beverage kombucha. As they digest sugar, the bacteria produce a mat of cellulose, which Lee figured out how to harvest and dry. The resulting fabric, which has a vaguely skinlike texture, can be molded and sewn into shirts and coats.



Spray-On Fabric

The British company Fabrican has developed a way to bond and liquefy fibers so that textiles can be sprayed out of a can or spray gun straight onto a body or dress form. The solvent then evaporates, and the fibers bond, forming a snug-fitting garment.





The Plastic-Fur Coat

Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal used 29000 annoying plastic price-tag fasteners + 42 hours embroidering to create a herringbone pattern on a leather coat, turning the disposable into a fashion statement: fake fake fur.

Woolfiller

Take the special wool and felting needle and poke the needle, which has small hooks along the point, through the wool and your moth-eaten garment. The repeated action binds the fibers together, making a felt patch on your cardigan, sock or rug.

ROBOTS AND SOFTWARE

 
The Deceitful Robot

Georgia Tech's new robot, which uses algorithms to detect conflict and then assess the best method of escaping from it, can create a false trail, send erroneous communications and hide from an enemy



 The English-Teaching Robot

The brightly colored, squat androids are part of an effort to keep South Korean students competitive in English.









Lifeguard Robot

EMILY, or the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, is a robotic buoy that can swim through riptides at a speed of up to 24 m.p.h makes her about 15 times as fast as human lifeguards. Powered with a tiny electric pump that shoots a forceful stream of water, the 4-ft.-long robotic buoy has been tested at California's Zuma Beach. The device is operated by remote, but next year's model features sonar technology controlled with an iPhone app that will allow EMILY to detect riptides and submerged objects








Sarcasm Detection

Is designed to spot sarcastic sentences in product reviews. The algorithm has been fairly accurate even in its earliest stages: in a trial involving 66,000 Amazon reviews, it was right 77% of the time, pointing to a future in which computers won't just store your words, they'll interpret your intent

MILITARY

Super Super Soaker

The clear plastic device is filled with water and a small explosive charge that, when set off, generates a thin blade of water that pulverizes the target



Less Dangerous Explosives

Traditional TNT is relatively unstable and can detonate when dropped or when a vehicle carrying it is hit by an IED or a bullet. But the IMX-101 explosive housing the same force as TNT is "more thermally stable''.



The X-51A WaveRider

The X-51A WaveRider demonstration project, part of the U.S.'s Prompt Global Strike initiative to attack any spot on the globe within an hour, is a prime example. The WaveRider is hypersonic, traveling 600 miles in 10 minutes






X-Flex Blast Protection

X-Flex wallpaper would be able to prevent walls collapsing with lethal force. Will becomes virtually stronger than the wall it's shielding

 

Iron Man Suit

Resembling the Iron Man suit, the XOS 2 allows even its least muscular wearer to lift 200-lb. weights without breaking a sweat and punch through slabs of wood






MISCELLANEOUS




The Seed Cathedral

A house of worship for biodiversity, the British pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is constructed of 60,000 light-funneling fiber-optic rods, each with one or more seeds implanted at its tip.





STS-111 Instant Infrastructure

Being lighter-than-air, this unmanned flying vehicle made of ripstop nylon, will be able to soar as high as 9,000 ft. for as long as three days



Better 3-D Glasses

To the rescue come new products from Oakley Inc., which has partnered with DreamWorks Animation to create specs with optically correct lenses (more clarity, less ghosting), and Samsung, which is releasing prescription glasses for its 3-D TVs.

    

Responsible Homeowner Reward Program

Responsible Homeowner Reward (RHR) program, banks promise to pay borrowers who continue to pay on time a lump sum, typically 10% of their original loan amount when they sell or refinance their home




Sugru

Is a brightly colored silicone rubber, which is a material soft enough to mold yet durable enough to fix or "hack" things so they work better. Sugru (Gaelic for play) sticks to everything from metal to fabriccraft an array of improvements and can be used to -softer corners, grippier handles, more comfortable shoes, even more decorative glasses.






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