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Inventions of 2007

Inventions of 2007. Looking at Trends. iPhone. It’s pretty! It’s touchy-feely! It will make other phones better! It’s a platform! It’s a ghost of phones to come!. Autonomous Automobile.

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Inventions of 2007

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  1. Inventions of 2007 Looking at Trends

  2. iPhone • It’s pretty! • It’s touchy-feely! • It will make other phones better! • It’s a platform! • It’s a ghost of phones to come!

  3. Autonomous Automobile The trouble with most green concept cars is that they require regular "refueling" with hard-to-get hydrogen or ethanol. The Venturi Eclectic runs solely on wind and solar power. Solar cells blanket the rooftop, and a wind turbine provides extra juice. When that's not enough, a backup electric outlet can recharge the three-seat Eclectic in five hours. Available: 2008 http://www.venturi.fr/

  4. City Car Aiming for the sweet spot between the comfort of a private vehicle and the efficiency of public transportation, the City Car from MIT's Media Lab is a stackable electric car that can be checked out like a luggage cart at the airport, then returned to any station around the city. Electric motors in each wheel eliminate the need for a mechanical drivetrain, and these 5-ft.-long (1.5 m) two-seaters zip along at 55 m.p.h. (about 90 km/h). AVAILABLE: 2011cities.media.mit.edu

  5. Return to Steam The future of automotive technology may lie in the past. Bruce Crower, 77, an auto-racing designer with a thriving business in San Diego, has invented a hybrid steam engine in which water is sprayed into a traditional gasoline-powered cylinder, turning waste heat into usable energy. How much energy? Enough to travel 40% farther on a gallon of gas. AVAILABLE: Prototypecrower.com

  6. SAAB • Drawing on its aviation roots — Saab was founded by aircraft engineers — the two-seater Saab Aero X is a concept car that might make the future a little cleaner. Styled like a jet, with a cockpit canopy instead of doors, and fueled by a bioethanol V-6 engine, the car suggests a future without conventional dials, instead displaying information in 3-D graphics on its clear acrylic dashboard screen. AVAILABLE: Sometime down the roadsaabusa.com/aerox

  7. Tailpipe Dream • Electric cars are so 2006. French R&D firm MDI signed a deal this year with India's largest automaker, Tata Motors, to start manufacturing compressed-air-technology vehicles. These ultra-eco-friendly cars run on air, and the only thing they emit is colder, cleaner air. Another convenient feature: a built-in air compressor can be plugged in to refill the tanks within minutes. AVAILABLE: 2009theaircar.com

  8. Spandex Space Suit • With manned space exploration in the doldrums, maybe what NASA needs is a new outfit for its astronauts. Enter Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics at MIT, who is developing the Bio-Suit. It's a formfitting space suit made of elastic polymers that improve mobility. Because it applies pressure directly to the skin instead of pressurizing the air inside the suit, the way today's bulky suits do, it's also much lighter. AVAILABLE: 2016mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/index.html

  9. A Robot You Can Relate To • Even a garden-variety robot can memorize specific tasks. What sets Domo apart is its ability to recognize people and to sense and respond to its surroundings. Created by MIT's Aaron Edsinger and Jeff Weber, the bot can grasp your hands when you touch its spring-loaded ones and can place a cup on a counter. Its fine-tuned, eerily human eyes can see who's watching too. AVAILABLE: Prototypepeople.csail.mit.edu/edsinger/domo.htm

  10. Don’t Flinch! • How many dimensions does it take to tell a 1,000-year-old monster epic? Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf will slice through three, thanks to innovations in digital 3-D. The analog 3-D of old couldn't perfectly sync two images, disorienting moviegoers. Digital's precision has done away with the herky-jerkiness and heightened the feeling of being right there at the tip of Beowulf's blade. AVAILABLE: In theaters Nov. 16beowulfmovie.com

  11. Blinded by the Light! • The hunt for better non-lethal weaponry gained new urgency when several people died in recent years after being shocked by a Taser. The LED Incapacitator, funded by the Department of Homeland Security, is a novel alternative. When officers shine the flashlight-like device in a person's eyes, high-intensity LEDs, pulsating at varying rates, will make the suspect temporarily blind and dizzy. AVAILABLE: 2008intopsys.com

  12. ATM for Books • The Espresso Book Machine—meaning "fast," not coffee—can churn out a 300-page paperback on demand, complete with color cover, in just 3 min. The $50,000 machine could transform libraries into minibookstores, making hard-to-find titles as accessible as cappuccinos. At $3 a book they might be cheaper too. Available Nowondemandbooks.com

  13. Good Morning, Sunshine! • Most people hate their alarm clock. That's why Eoin McNally and Ian Walton created the glo Pillow. Embedded with a grid of LEDs, it uses nothing but light to wake you up. About 40 min. before reveille, the programmable foam pillow starts glowing, gradually becoming brighter, to simulate a natural sunrise. This helps set your circadian rhythm and ease you into the day. Available Prototypeembryo.ie/glo/index.html

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