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Inventions of 2001

Posted by michael on from the beating-a-path-to-their-door dept.

oo7tushar writes: "Time has a list of the Inventions of 2001. They've got a list of some very impressive inventions. They've got the inventions, a short description, prices/costs, and a link to the websites. On the list is the Abiocor Artificial Heart, Millennium Bridge, EZ-Rocket, a very sweet light weight fuel-cell bike with good mileage and a whole bunch of other very high tech toys, gadgets, vehicles, robots, and medical technology. A good read and very interesting."

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  1. Visions of the Future by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Remember the old movies, etc that said how the world would be in 2001?

    I want my flying cars, jet packs, all those neat toys.

    But I can do with the 1950s predictions of what year 2001 fashions would be like. and I certainly wouldn't want to do space navigation by slide rule and "dead reckoning"

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  2. Re:Where's IT? by HarrisonSilp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Right here.

  3. Most worrisome invention on the list... by mbessey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I vote for "slugbot".

    That's just what the world needs - meat-eating robots....

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    Don't these people watch Sci-Fi movies? What were they thinking?

    1. Re:Most worrisome invention on the list... by Chakat · · Score: 3, Funny
      Don't these people watch Sci-Fi movies? What were they thinking?
      I wouldn't worry all too much. This thing only eats slugs, so unless you're a trial lawyer, I don't think that this thing is going to eat you.
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  4. Re:Millenium Bridge by JimPooley · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You are SO wrong!

    Had you bothered to read the bloody article, you would have seen that the Millennium Bridge they are talking about is the one in Gateshead over the Tyne.

    The bridge you mentioned is the one over the Thames, which has been closed now for ages because on its opening day it started swaying from side to side as people walked over it. It's a pile of crap like most of Blair's other Millennium Projects (Don't get me started on the Dome!!!).

    The Gateshead bridge mentioned in the Time article which you so obviously didn't bother to read is a marvellously designed piece of work.

    You can read more about the Gateshead bridge here.

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  5. NO NO its XP!!!! by MosesJones · · Score: 3, Funny


    It going to revolutionise the way we work, I know its true. Bill said so. I don't need a command line, I need a telly tubby skin. I must have a voice controlled jukebox. And I don't want to interoperate with anyone. Bill is my friend, Bill invents

    XP is the greatest invention of this or any time.

    Its true I tell you. The wheel is nothing in comparison with XP. Fire is just a footnote to the chapters historians will dedicate to the wonder that is XP and how it changed the face of digital communication.

    Oh yes all the voices agree, XP is the best because Bill says so.

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  6. Motor-Powered Fill-In-Blank by robbway · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow, after the amazing biotech advances we have a motor-powered scooter, a motor-powered surfboard, a motor-powered IT. These are certainly insignificant.

    A motor-powered scooter is called a scooter. A motor-powered surfboard is called a jet ski or a boat. These aren't new nor noteworthy. They are, in fact, furthering America's ambition to remove all exercise from their life and let the machine do the work (I am, BTW, an overweight, underexercised American, too).

    I think they should have trimmed their list a bit.

  7. Pretty cool inventions except... by Uttles · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Dockers... what a plug! Putting an extra pocket on pants is nothing new, hidden or not hidden, zipper or no zipper. This is like calling Kangaroo shoes a great new technology, even though nobody wears them anymore...

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  8. sheesh by underpaidISPtech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Motorized Surfboard?
    Hydrogen powered Scooter?
    Flying Boat?
    StreetCarver?

    Since when does strapping an engine on something make it a great invention?

    I attached a tokomak reactor to my mousepad, where can I pick up my trophy?

  9. Yessssss..... by Soko · · Score: 3, Funny

    Saw this little gadget and instantly thought "Finally! I can get my caffeine with out all that bothersome coffee and Mountaing Dew making me pee all the time."

    Or, may be not...

    Soko

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  10. Very Physical by under_score · · Score: 3, Interesting

    but where are all the less physical inventions? Surely someone invented a new type process that affects our day to day lives... this list of greatest inventions is neet, but its all eye-candy. There are very few listed there which really meet the parameter that Time describes as being important to their list: "how it changes our lives." There are a few there: the artificial heart, the cooling pot, etc. But the automatic mashed potato maker???! Give me a break. That is pure consumerism. What have we learned after 9/11? Nothing? Where are the inventions that help alleviate economic and environmental disasters? What about things that help education in poorer countries? What about tools that make new industries possible, therefore creating jobs?

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