What has been the greatest technological invention/innovation?

[IronWing]

The hanging nad.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: nineball9
Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Yes, it encountered some engineering problems during its testing and is currently shutdown for the winter, but the technology is amazing.

Mm... I think this has been in the making for more than eight years though.

 

[Tiamat]

Human Genome

 

[The Boston Dangler]

commercial nanotechnology

 

[vshah]

STEVE JOBS

 

[UncleWai]

The wireless technology, wifi, 3g, gps, etc.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

GMail

Also, Google.

 

[Colt45]

more powerful, smaller, cheaper, embedded stuffs. Not really a recent invention, but the.. ah fuck it.

 

[Eeezee]

Oh, missed the 8 years. NM

A toothbrush that vibrates at the brown noise frequency. Or was that not supposed to be public knowledge yet? Shit...

 

[Baked]

World of Warcraft and Death Knight

 

[Perknose]

Convincing several of us long-time but completely innocent posters to pretend we're the AnandTech Moderators so that the REAL bastards can continue their unholy ways at an undisclosed location in utter anonymity, naked and slathered in butter . . . lots and lots of butter.

 

[gevorg]

Indian call centers