9. Timeโs 50 Best Inventions of 2008. [Business]
ํ์์ง ์ ์ ์ฌํด์ ๋ฐ๋ช ํ Top 50 Innovation / Invention
TIME์ง๋ 2008๋ 50์๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ. 23andMeโ
. TIME์ง๋ ์ฌํด์ ๋ฐ๋ช ํ 2008๋ Top 50์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ๋ฐํ. ์ฌํด์ 1์๋ ๊ฐ์ธ ์ ์ ์ ํ ์คํธ ์๋น์ค์ธ โ23andMeโ๊ฐ ์ฐจ์ง
[23andMe๋ ์ต์ด๋ก ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ ์ ์ ๋ถ์์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ์์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐฝ์ ์๋ ๊ตฌ๊ธ์ Sergay Brin๊ณผ ์๋ด์ธ Anne Wojociciki์]
Time Magazine has released their annual list of the 50 best inventions from 2008. Itโs a great overview of recent innovation, and even if youโre well
versed in the field, something interesting should catch your eye. Although the ranking does not make a whole lot of sense (Hulu.com is at number 4,
sandwiched between The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and The Large Hadron Collider) - the selection overall is stellar.
Start from the beginning here, or check out the complete list. [time]
Invention of the Year (2008)
1. The Retail DNA Test 26. The Speedo LZR Racer
2. The Tesla Roadster 27. Bubble Photography
3. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 28. The Invisibility Cloak
4. Hulu.com 29. The 46th Mersenne Prime
5. The Large Hadron Collider 30. The Internet Of Things
6. The Global Seed Vault 31. Einstein's Fridge
7. The Chevy Volt 32. Facebook for Spies
8. Bullets That Shoot Bullets 33. Biomechanical Energy Harvester
9. The Orbital Internet 34. Made-in-Transit Packaging
10. The World's Fastest Computer 35. Airborne Wind Power
11. Green Crude 36. The New Ping-Pong Serve
12. Housing Funds 37. Smog-Eating Cement
13. The Memristor 38. The Baseball Instant Replay
14. The Bionic Hand 39. Enhanced Fingerprints
15. The Direct-to-Web Supervillain Musical 40. The Seven New Deadly Sins
16. The Dynamic Tower 41. The Peraves MonoTracer
17. The Mobile, Dexterous, Social Robot 42. Disemvoweling
18. The New Mars Rover 43. High-Tech Running Shoes
19. Montreal's Public Bike System 44. Sunscreen for Plants
20. The Everything Game 45. The Short Refinance
21. The Synthetic Organism 46. Aptera Electric Car
22. The Shadowless Skyscraper 47. Google's Floating Data Center
23. The Branded Candidate 48. The Time Eater Clock
24. Bionic Contacts 49. Sound-Enhanced Food
25. Thin-Film Solar Panels 50. A Camera For the Blind
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11. Philips develop โIntelligent Pillโ - iPill. [Technology]
ํ๋ฆฝ์ค, ์ต์ฒจ๋จ์ ์ง๋ฅํ ์์ฝ iPill ์ถ์ Healthcare
iPillโ
. Philips ์ฐ๊ตฌ์๋ ์ํ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์งํ์น๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ๋ฌด์ ์ก์ ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ก์ธ์๊ฐ ํ์ ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ง๋ฅํ ์์ฝ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ โiPillโ ๋ฐํ
[iPill์ ๋นํ๋ฏผ์ ์บก์ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ผํจ ํ์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ํ๊ธฐ๊ณ๋ฅผ ํต๊ณผํ๋ฉด์ ์ง์ ์ฝ๋ฌผ์ ํฌ์ฌํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ด ์์]
Philips Research will announce its new intelligent
pill technology quot;iPillquot;, targeted at assisting drug
development and enabling new therapies for
debilitating and life-threatening digestive tract
disorders such as Crohn's disease, colitis and colon
cancer.
Philips' smart pill is the same size as the camera pill,
the iPill has a wireless transmitter, but it plays no
tunes. Instead, it sends dispatches about the
temperature and acidity of its surroundings to an
outside receiver as it travels through the GI tract
over the course of a day or two. The acidity,
measured by pH, of the gut decreases as the pill
gets further from the stomach and that allows
researchers to pinpoint the place where the drug is
needed.
The multivitamin-size quot;intelligent pillquot; also has a
microprocessor in it, which is designed to release its
cargo of medicine at the specific spot in the
gastrointestinal (GI) tract where it will do the most
good, sparing the rest of the body from
unnecessary exposure to the drug.
iPill might make its commercial debut as a research
tool for drug developers, at a cost of as much as
$1,000 a pill. The cost could come down to about
$10 if thousands of people were taking iPills every
day.
[newlaunches]
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13. Lipstick Indicates Economic Recession? [Investing]
๋ฆฝ์คํฑ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์์ธก์ ์ธ๋์ผ์ดํฐ์ธ๊ฐ ? Economy / Theory
์ด๋ก ,
. ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ถํฉ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ด๋ค๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์์ธกํ๋ ์๋จ์ผ๋ก ๋ฆฝ์คํฑ ์ด๋ก , ๋ฏธ๋์ค์ปคํธ ์ด๋ก ๋ฑ์ ์ธ๋์ผ์ดํฐ๋ก ์์ธก
[์ค์ ๋ก ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฆฝ์คํฑ ๋งค์ถ๊ณผ์ ์๊ด๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ํด๋ณธ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์นจ์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉํ๋ ์ต๊ทผ ๋ช๋ฌ๋์ ๋ฆฝ์คํฑ ๋งค์ถ์ด 40% ์ฆ๊ฐ]
At a time when the economy is slowing down it offers an opportunity to validate some of the quirky economic theories like Lipstick Indicator. Do lipstick
sell well when the economic depression deepens? Google trends answers โYesโ. Estรฉe Lauder Chairman Leonard Lauder reportedly coined the phrase
โlipstick indexโ after observing sales surges during 9/11 downturns. Why? People reach for affordable luxuries to feel better. The New York Times notes
that in the last few months, lipstick sales have shot up 40% . Even in Indian markets lipstick sales are growing steadily at 20 % & in the case of luxury
brands that have a smaller base, extending even into the triple digits. โWomen always want to look beautiful, and whatโs the easiest thing to buy? Lipstick.
A tube of lipstick for $14.50 as compared to a shirt for $70,โ says Jennifer Barnett of Origins.
Here is quick validation of other economic signs :
When the economy fails, we booze more. Google trend answers โNoโ .
โWe drink all the time! What changes is where we drink. We drink at home more and go out less โ, says Marcia Mogelonsky, senior analyst at Mintel
International.
Skirt length theory or When times are good, womenโs skirts get shorter; when times are bad, hemlines fall. The idea behind this theoretical trend is
that people are carefree during booms and cautious during busts. Google trends again answers โNoโ - as the search volume for โlong skirtโ , โshort skirtโ &
โmini skirtโ bears no distinct seasonality pattern with recession . Nothing cures the hangover from a failing banks bailout and rising unemployment rates like
a shiny new lipstick. [trendspotting]
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15. The Solar Winged Helios Vehicle Concept. [Design]
๋ชฉ๋๋ฆฌ ๋๋ง๋ฑ ํํ์ ํ์์ด ์๋์ฐจ Transportation / Energy
Helios๋
. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ํ์ ๋์ค๋ ํ์์ ์ ์ด๋ฆ์ ๋ถ์ธ Helios๋ ๊ด์ ์ง ํจ๋์ ์ฅ์ฐฉํ์ฌ ํ์์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋๋ ฅ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ ์๋์ฐจ ์ปจ์
[๋ ์ผ ์ ํ์ค์ธ ํ๊ตญ ๋์์ด๋ ๊น๊ตฌํ์ ์ํ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ๋ฆฌ์ด ๋ชจํฐ๋ธ ๋์์ธ ์ด์๋ 2008์์ ์ฐ์น์ ์ฐจ์งํ ์ํ]
Kim Gu-Hanโs Helios concept car is unusual to say the least.
Resembling some sort of frill necked lizard, the electric off-road
vehicle has the unique ability to spread its solar panel wings to
soak up the sunโs energy. While in motion, the Helios is a sleek
electric vehicle that is powered by solar energy, and when at rest it
deploys a rather cool-looking fan that can absorb and store energy
to power your house. Now thatโs what we call inspired by nature
Weโve seen some interesting concept vehicles here at Inhabitat,
but we have never fathomed one modeled after a lizard. The
Helios was inspired by reptiles that spread out their skin to control
their temperature. The vehicleโs expandable solar fan allows it to
absorb solar energy over a large surface area while at rest.
[inhabitat]
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17. GreenWashBall - Wash Without Detergent. [Product]
์ธ์ ์์ด ์ธํํ๋ ์นํ๊ฒฝ ์ธํ๋ณผ Detergent
GreenWashBall์
. GreenWashBall์ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ํ์์์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ธํ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ธํ๊ธฐ์ ๋์ ธ๋ฃ๊ธฐ๋ง ํ๋๊ฒ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ธํ์ด๋๋ ํ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ํ
[์ ์ฌํ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก the Miracle II Ball, the Laundry Solution Ball,the Mystic Wonder Laundry Ball ๋ฑ์ด ์์]
The GreenWashBall is a device that you toss into the washing
machine to clean your dirty laundry in place of detergent. An
innovative concept, but not the first of its kind - โlaundry ballsโ
like the GreenWashBall are abundant, including the Miracle II
Ball, the Laundry Solution ball, and the Mystic Wonder Laundry
Ball. They are supposedly popular in Europe and the laundry
ball industry is hoping to gain popularity in the U.S. Completely
cutting the use of detergent is enticing from both ecological and
economic standpoints, but how exactly does the
GreenWashBall work, and can it up to its claims?
Laundry balls seem to inspire skepticism. I speculate that this is
for two reasons. One, they tend to be sold through direct
marketing, like catalogs, and multi-level marketing schemes
where sellers recruit buyers and other sellers โ both mediums
lend themselves to rackets. Two, the explanation of the
technology involves some fuzzy chemistry involving everything
from magnets to โfar infrared rays.โ
This company could not have picked a worse name for a
product that Consumer Reports decreed ineffective and
Wikipedia desribes as โpseudoscientificโ and a โscam.โ The
GreenWashBall ($39.99) is filled with โantibacterial ceramicsโ
that emit OH- ions, or hydroxides, and O2- ions, or dioxides,
according to Michael Bitton of the GreenWashBall Team. The
OH- ions have โstrong sterilization capabilityโ and the O2- ions
have the โcapability of decomposing organizing matters and
deodorizing scents by being attached to oxidation reacting
intermediates.โ Both ions โdestroy cell membranes of bacteria.โ
[inhabitat]
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