Question Finally Answered. Top Innovation of the Last 25 Years. Now With POLL!

timswim78

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Ripped from CNN

Here are numbers 2 through 25. Nomber 1 will be announced on Sunday January 16th, 2005 by by the Lemelson-MIT Program, which promotes inventiveness in teens. What do you think it will be?

2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs
18. Display panels
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio
 

conjur

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Jun 7, 2001
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Wait a minute...Jan. 6 has already passed and it wasn't a Sunday.


You mean the 16th, maybe?
 

SWScorch

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How are cell phones higher than personal computers? I'd like to go back in time, find the inventor of the cell phone and rip his head off :|

Ummmm.... I', j/k of course :confused:
 
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metalergy? none of the above products could have happened without our advancements in metalergical production capabilities.
 

nakedfrog

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Apr 3, 2001
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This is stupid.
17. OLEDs
18. Display panels
19. HDTV
Aren't all of these displays?

3. Personal computers
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
22. Flash memory
These all need their own entries?

I would go on, but I don't feel like it.
 

PingSpike

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Feb 25, 2004
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Originally posted by: PricklyPete
Internet for sure.

Second guess would be Ipod ;)

There internet in its earliest form existed in the late 60s. This said 25 years.
 

rh71

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Aug 28, 2001
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how the hell am i supposed to know what's been around within the last 25 years only ?

How about the automatic pet feeder ? Can't leave home without 'em. :D
 

PingSpike

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And everyone knows this title should go to internet pornography. Although that may have existed before as well...I mean whats the first thing you're going to do when you dial up the internet even in the 1960s....use arpagoogle to search for "titties" obviously.
 

Jzero

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OOh I know! The thing that lets you punch someone in the face over the internet!