1. Philips Electronics low power light bulbs ~ less than 10 watts
2. Smart Thermostat ~ wirelessly relay information from various appliances, indicating consumption
3. Controller-free gaming ~ project Natal by using body movements and voice commands
4. Teleportation ~ University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute successfully teleported data from one atom to another a meter away
5. Telescope for Invisible Stars ~ Herschel Space Observatory using infrared interference and temperature fluctuations from earth
6. The AIDS Vaccine ~ not approved for use yet but it is a start
7. Tweeting by Thinking ~ Adam Wilson, doctoral student, tweeted 23 characters just by thinking (people with "locked in" syndrome has hope)
8. Electronic Eye ~ MIT researchers developing a microchip that could help blind people to recognize faces and navigate (in works)
9. Mercury Probe ~ Messenger ship from NASA flyby 141 miles above Mercury's surface
10. The Personal Carbon Footprint ~ Princeton University suggested
11. Solar Shingle ~ Dow Chemical Co. developed new shingle that doubles as a solar panel - cheaper than traditional solar panels and easy to install
12. Handheld Ultrasound ~ GE revealed the Vscan, a medical imaging tool as compact as a cell phone and as powerful as a large ultrasound console (look patent's body)
13. YikeBike ~ no pedalling, folding electric bicycle from New Zealand (charged to 80% capacity in 20 minutes, 20 km/h top speed, 9kg)
14. Vertical Farming ~ Valcent company in El Paso, Texas is pioneering a hydroponic-farming system that grows plants in rotating rows
15. Planetary Skin ~ (can't manage what you can't measure) NASA and Cisco to develop Planetary Skin, a global "nervous system" that integrate land, sea, air and space
16. $20 Knee ~ team in Standford engineering students designed a cheap, natural joint movement knee (made of self-lubricating, oil-filled nylon - flexible, stable)
17. Watchdog for Financial Products ~ make sure financial products are not rigged in favor of firms selling them
18. Electric Microbe ~ Geobacter, tiny hairlike extensions called pili that it uses to generate electricity from mud and waste water (next step, Geobacter-based fuel cells)
19. Bladeless Fan ~ James Dyson designs blade-less non-buffeting air multiplier (safer)
20. Custom Puppy ~ BioArts clone puppies
21. Cyborg Beetle ~ Pentagon's research wing has devised a method of remotely controlling the flight of beetles
22. Biotech Stradivarius ~used two fungi to alter Norwegian spruce and sycamore to resemble the wood Stradivarius (great instrument maker of all time) used
23. Nissan Leaf ~ first fully electric vehicle built for mass production for the global market (145km/h, 100 miles on full charge)
24. Robo-Penguin ~ agility of penguins inspired scientists at Festo's Bionic Learning Network to develop the AquaPenguin (can also swim backwards)
25. Universal Unicycle ~ Honda's U3-X "personal mobility" is a device that combines technology from ASIMO with its omnidirectional driving system (6km/h, 10kg)
26. Youtube Funk ~ took footage of amateur musicians and mixed it together with vocals into video jams of amazing funkiness (all new art form that combines DJing, video montage and art)
27. Dandelion Rubber ~ new, improved dandelion produced 500% more usable late than old weed (switching off a key enzyme)
28. Wooden Bones ~ Italian scientists are using wood to create an artificial bone replacement called carbonated hydroxyapatite (not ready for human testing)
29. Living Wall ~ Patrick Blanc specializes in vertical gardens - greenbeareded exterior of Athenaeum Hotel (260 species of plants, automated irrigation and fertilization systems)
30. School of One ~ Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology-based learning takes the places of the old -mix of virtual tutoring, in-class and educational video games
31. No-Punt Offense ~punting on fourth and long near your own end zone decreases the odds of the other team's scoring by only a relatively slim amount (Pulaski won a state championship)
32. Human-powered Vending Machine ~ stationary bicycle to a vending machine, where customer needs to pedal a certain distance to get it
33. Handyman's X-Ray Vision ~ Walleye Technologies, a handheld microwave camera (see through walls)
34. Meet Farms ~ grow parts separately (culturing stem cells from pigs and growing muscle in a petri dish)
35. Packing, Improved ~ University of Mainz team of researchers developed an algorithm that broke the record for fitting a given number of different-size discs into a small circle
36. Foldable Speaker ~ self-powered, 1 watt speakers made of recycled paper ($16, bring music to low-income communities)
37. Levitating Mouse ~ NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab figured how to make tiny critters float in midair using magnets
38. Edible Race Car ~ F3 project, developed at England's university of Warwick(biodesel mix of chocolate and vegetable oil) -coated the radiator in a substance that converts ozone emissions into oxygen
39. High-speed Helicopter ~ Sikorsky's X2 Technology helicopter aims to beat 180 m.p.h at 290m.p.h. (two rotors spinning in opposite directions)
40. Supersuit ~ German Paul Biedermann, wearing Arena's Powerskin X-Glide racing suit, handed Phelps his first major individual international defeat in four years, in 200-m freestyle. (polymeric surface traps air to boost a swimmer's buoyancy, which reduce drag)
41. Eyeborg ~ OmniVision, replace Rob Spence's prosthetic eye with battery-powered, wireless video camera
42. Spiderweb Silk ~ stronger than steel and flexible (Simon Peers 11 ft long spider silk cloth made in Madagascar) -took four years and half a million dollars and more than a million spiders
43. Sky King ~ Japan Origami Airplane Association set world record for longest flight by paper airplane (27.6 seconds)
44. Smart Bullet ~ fire a bullet that explodes where you tell it to, XM25 (microchips that register distance
45. Fashion Robot ~ HRP-$C robot model ($2 million) developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
46. 3-D Camera ~ Fujifirm introduced a 3-D digital camera (10 mega-pixel Fine Pix has two lenses, snap shot of object from different angles)-combined image gives depth
47. Newst Cloud ~ undulatus asperatus, like a rolling seascape
48. World's Fastest (Steam-powered) Car ~ Edwards Air Force Base in California, Burnett clocked 243 km/h
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