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Top Inventions of 2007
Gibbs-Duhem writes "Time Magazine is reporting on the best inventions of the year. The top invention is the somewhat well-known iPhone, but there are some extremely cool projects included that I had certainly never heard of, including a device for capturing waste heat from car engines to increase efficiency up to 40%, a novel car designed to run entirely on compressed air claiming to have a range of 2000km with zero pollution, a James Bond style GPS tracking device that police can use to avoid high-speed chases, a small-scale printing press capable of printing and binding a paperback book in 3 minutes for under $3/book (and $50k per machine), a microbe-based technology for turning soft sand into sandstone, a water-based display which uses computer controlled nozzles to produce coherent gaps in the water, and a way to convert type A, B, and AB-negative blood into type O."
Who cares about increasing the blood supply so that there are fewer times of crisis when you can choose which voicemail to listen to first? GET YOUR DAMN PRIORITIES STRAIGHT!
Lives can be saved by listening to your voicemails in the order you want. Lives can be saved by not having buttons on your phone. LIVES CAN BE SAVED BY NEVER HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR PHONE FALLING AND THE BATTERY POPPING OFF!
Why you Apple Haters can't see this is beyond me. I weep for our future.