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For gong on over 200 years designers have slaved away at various schemes to make self winding/powered watches. None of the modern electrical self powered have ever reached the mass, 'as in cheaply' produced watch category. Sure there have been a few novelty types and even the high end ones have been rather meager successes,
http://web-japan.org/trends98/honbun/ntj990207.html and http://jrse.aip.org/jrsebh/v1/i6/p062701_s1?view=fulltext that fit more into the category of novelty items. These certainly are not to be considered a mass produced success.

The most activity seems to be in making the illumination better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium_illumination if you like to be irradiated. But that is more tweaking and old idea.

So you want to show the world this is no gimmick tech. Produce a simple inexpensive self powered electrical wristwatch that 1 year later the Chinese ripoff factories produce ones that sell at Walmart for $10ea.

So do that before ever moving on to the futuristic ipod'ish widgets. Then we'll all have mass produced products that run off your body heat, sweat, or the pressure of you fat ass wiggling about on your computer chair and cost no more than whatever else you have stuck to the side of your face presently.

That's just great. Then people will never have any excuse to ever put any of that crap down and be disconnected from the virtual world while the devices recharge. That will really open the market for the; As seen on TV, self powered, full body, 3D glasses included, sex suit. The more you get your grove on, the more you power the realism of your fantasy. All yours for 3 easy payments....

Now that is mass production of power at its finest.

Because it takes an expert to look the frick around and determine they don't live in shoeboxes, is that right?

Shoeboxes, coming at you:

http://web-japan.org/Kidsweb/explore/housing/q4.html

I've been paying a great deal of attention to FCC policy and various clashes between telecom and local and federal governments. It doesn't take a friggin' genius to follow the news if one's interested

Well, I'll concede that you have proven that it takes more than a moron to understand it. Nicely done!

I've been paying a great deal of attention to FCC policy and various clashes between telecom and local and federal governments. It doesn't take a friggin' genius to follow the news if one's interested

You said it yourself! "Oh the millions of masses wait with baited breath..Google save us!"

Christ almighty, can you even be honest, or are you just that stupid that you can't see the disconnect in all your talking points. Reading doesn't make you smart, thinking does. Practice it.

One of the computers they are using is named 'Ultra Hal.' They even dare to use that name!

That's nothing. Here is a company called Cyberdyne that's making a robot suit called HAL.

It's like these people are taunting apocalyptic memes and daring them to come true.

I think you're going to find more teenage girls missing Daniel Steele than teenage boys missing their Manga.

Turning Plants into Plastic--And Replacing Oil in the Process

Ballooning Demand for Plastic Made from Vegetable Resin

Plastic without the petroleum

Starch based plastic 3d printer

While this suit is totally cool, I think bigger, mass-production robots like this rice-planting robot are far more practical. The robot suit is indeed a technological breakthrough, but I think robots that can help more than one person at a time are far more valuable. Or, check out these weed-killers.

Bzzt. Windows isn't, even in a Microsoft perfect world, able to push into every corner.

TRON has way, way outpaced Windows to the point that it would be many a year if TRON dissapeared, which won't happen any time soon.

If we were only talking about PCs, that's a different story, but you did mention some embedded devices like ATMs and pocket PCs.

largely job for life in Japan

all powerful unions in Germany, 35 hours/week in France

largely job for life in Japan

all powerful unions in Germany, 35 hours/week in France

Maybe because so many of them have all the authority of a programming patent? There is significant prior art to invalidate the claims of the article. Here are some examples:

20 Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.

Prior art:
1. hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient world. Persians were Zorastarians, not Muslim, as it had not been invented yet.
2. japan: http://web-japan.org/factsheet/gardens/ancient.htm l, 593
3. egypt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gardens, 2500 BC.

18 By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.

1. Greek: It is commonly assumed that people from early antiquity generally believed the world was flat, but by the time of Pliny the Elder (1st century) its spherical shape was generally acknowledged. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth)

2. China: 200ad http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?showtop ic=5667

The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation.

1. China: 200 AD, mechanical clock, http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/early.html, peak 1088 CE

2. Egypt, 2nd century. http://www.history-science-technology.com/Notes/No tes%202.htm. Al-Jazari's pump is a refinement by adding a waterwheel.

One inventions is not an invention at all, it is a refinement of earlier soaps. The addition of scents seems to be the "invention" here.

So, there you go, a solid historical look at some of the inventions listed here, which show there is some serious bunk there.

BTW, can you list a recent, like last 100 years, invention? The site is down, wonderin g if one is there.

What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?

From what I've learned, Japanese engineers have the enviable ability to invent something to fit their needs, even though the development cost would have to be recouped in sales. The stories I hear about developers here in America tell tales of requirements of immediate or near-immediate profits.

Well, that would certainly explain those high-tech toilets with more gadgets than James Bond.

Noone would care ... because they would be useless? That said, Tu-Ka to the rescue for all you luddites...

It wouldn't bother me at all. Here is the flag of the country I live in...

This could also count the number of embedded windows installations on portable devices. I you remember the worlds most installed OS is barely heard of.