Technological Inventions

By: Birutė Andruškaitė

dEFINITION

The process of devising and producing — by independent investigation, experimentation, and mental activity — something that is useful and that was not previously known or existing

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IN THE YEAR OF 2012• Supermarket checkout scanner uses object recognition• Quantum teleporter• Flying Car• Project glasses• The Curiosity Rover• Bahar towers• The deep-sea Submarine• Drifting fish farm• Tesla model S• Switchblade drone• Robot Baxter• Baseball size orb • Self-inflating tires• Techpet• Enable talk gloves• Solar technologies• 3D printer• ....• ...

Few interesting ones...

• Control temperature and save energy• Moves with the sun• Simplicity controlled by computer

Bahar Towers

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Tesla model S

• Electric, four door sedan• 426 km on one charge• Emission equivalent to 2.6 L/100 km• Touch screen control

project –google - GLASS• Computer built into the frame of glasses• 1,3 inch display will work by the

movements of the eyes and voice control• Interaction with internet

3d printer

• Extrudes ultra-thin plastic layers• Ability to copy or design new objects• Can be: – transparent– resistant for high temperature–bio compatible, etc.

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

Sydney J. Harris