Time's Inventions Of The Year
from the funky-gadgets dept
Mike Lohse writes "Time Magazine profiles their best invention picks of 2001. Among my favorites are the flying boats, the hydrogen powered scooter, StreetCarver the optically guided bus, not to mention the artificial organs...Good smorgasbord of cool gadgets and useful things. And, of course, as everyone expected, the list includes the overhyped Ginger from Dean Kamen, who recently registered mystirlingscooter.com." I'm not sure how Ginger gets included since no one even knows what it is... Anyway, it's fun to read through some of the inventions Time picked out.
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