Best Inventions of the Year 2012

Wonderful idea. NYC could have used this during Hurricane Sandy.

Today's problems were the solution to yesterday's problems.

The day-before-yesterday's problem was how to creates a container that would restrict the flow of sauce, jelly, hair shampoo out of its container without smothering your sausages, your slice or bread or your child in the bath with the contents of the container. The solution was to design a container with a narrow neck to restrict the egress of the container's contents.

Yesterday's problem was how to get a reasonable quantity of the contents of the container with the narrow neck out of the container without having to apply excessive force, and possible unintended consequence. The solution was to line the container with a slippery coating that allowed the contents of the narrow-container to flow freely out of the container.

Today's problem is to create a container that will restrict the flow of sauce, jelly, hair shampoo out of its container without smothering your sausages, your slice or bread or your child in the bath with the contents of the container. The solution is ...

I worry about the evironmental impact (even it is made out of algae.

Awesome Job Portal on Social ATS www.recruit4job.com

ima skip the Google Glass and stick to my tablet

maybe when the "Computer Contact Lens" comes out ill join the party

http://comm6480rpi.blogspot.com/2009/09/jef-raskin-black-sheep-hero-of-humane.html

Amazing inventions, especially the indoor clouds, enable talk gloves, and google glass.

make this as heavy duty device for techs, builders, chemicals, medics. Trend of the future - rlly usefull device for the real work, this is not only for glamour butterflies.  ))

Really interesting list, we like the "enable talk gloves" for hearing-impaired people, great!

why is this the invention of 2012 when we can buy it 2014?

wait was i supose to say anything about hacking into phones and electronics?

i really like this website and to remeber this since i made lots of virtual worlds and website i think i can use some of this information not that i am going to hack onto this but i am a hacker i can hack into and computer,phone,any electronic

i am just getting on this website for online research because my teacher is talking about it and i am doing a project i have to invent something and write and talk about it and i am the smartest kid in class everyone says that but she gave us these magazines called time for kids but i am  sure if your reading this you heard of this magazine but this website is so intresting 

Attention please :) . . New kindle fire really deserves, you can check the full specs and new technologies used to produce this tablet here . . 

New kindle fire HD

Actually it's a lamp and you can buy it on Amazon, just put one in the sunroom. :)

Unique collection of the Best Inventions of  the Year 2012.Dr.A.Jagadeesh  Nellore(AP),India

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzifJH59Zg&feature=plcp

do this using a tube and u will be the best nami's cosplayer!

Google Glass To be used OLED Technology.

Big deal, NOT!! fog machine, really?  NASA has been doing it for over 30 years with rain inside a building.  Just ask THEM!!

Throwable camera ball, baked in 2009, patented in 2012.

http://www.slashgear.com/throwable-ball-camera-for-fly-by-video-patented-by-inventor-04245951/

Cool! One Piece Nami's Weather rods?! Thunder Tempo!! lol

Anyone remember the inventions ten years ago?  (Sputmik, scramjets, and tomato vaccines...)

Coincidentally, the sign language glove of this year was previously invented in 2002.  By an 18-year old high school student.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1934259,00.html

Yeah````

Great article, but oddly, most of the photographs of the images are splayed, scrunched, and otherwise not visible. I'm using the latest version of the Firefox browser, in Windows 8!

Lets hope they come out a lot faster BECAUSE I WANT THEM AND I CAN GET THEM

I want to do that! 

http://www.crawfordandobrien.com

Suspend teased white fibreglas on invisibly fine fishing line and you can have this same effect permanently.

My contribution to Art: The Glass Cloud.

Copyright 2012 ERM.

this is cooler http://youtu.be/4pDqI3XQaz4

starboyone, what is it you have invented that will set the world on it's ear. I'm dying to hear about it dear....just can't wait.

This wasn't invented in 2012 and it wasn't invented by this artist. A group had already done this back in 2010. their indoor cloud was much bigger. it appears this fellow in 2012 used the same techniques but presented it  differently. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11396/transsolar-tetsuo-kondo-architects-cloudscapes-at-venice-biennale.html

Amazing!

Indoor Clouds 《= what is this for...........  create job for researchers ?

This invention is art but as useless as that and steals 8 minutes of your time :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUxRateXeXI

Great invention, I want that cloud!

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the UFO do the same

#1 top Invention TIME forgot: Mitt Romney's faux concern for our welfare.

Full list doesn't work

What Steve has given us from USA is the best and we ought to thank him I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA

REALLY?  You think THESE are the BEST Invention The WORLD has Produced over the Last Year - REALLY?  How Very Sad

The Civilization Starter Kit has some great ideas not just for Post Apocalypse, but for small scale farming and self sufficiency.

Problematically Open Source Ecology appears to be under (not) funded and subject to highly variable interest.

The engine powered modular power unit is a great idea, but the hydraulic pumps, motors and pistons used are not inexpensive and are also not very efficient at engine power to work conversion.

Those problems aside, the simplicity of the designs and their effectiveness at undertaking a wide and necessary range of tasks effectively is remarkable.

Truly great concept, I hope it can be realized practically.

I have worn 100% knitted shoes made in Spain over 20 years ago and still own them. They also have one sportshoe type artificial sole. 

NIKE this is NO big invention!

Wow pretty cool stuff and I'm surprised they are things. I was expecting to see maybe a forth to be software related which I don't really consider inventions per se.

AlanReece how about Stanley Meyer's idea of the "water powered car"?  It would help end pollution as we know it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S44eRCr-O7o

I think this project is very promising. But I believe that it is better to start to execute the project Audio Internet, Internet without using the screen only voice interface. For more details about this project can be found here http://vvzabl.blogspot.ru/

The deepsea challenger was _not_ designed by James Cameron, it was commissioned and sponsored by him, and designed by legendary submersible designer Graham Hawkes, who had been working on this project for decades before he met Cameron, Richard Branson, and his other supporters.  I know this is just a popular top-50 list, but as a major media publication it would be best to do some fact checking and be more precise on things like this.