The 50 Best Inventions of 2009

[pam]

The Tank-Bred Tuna - The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - TIME

[candyprpl]

Wow -- okay maybe I don't get the significance of this invention. I read the article -- but it's really more important than some of the others? Please inform me if my ignorance is showing.

[pam]

Don't worry...I'm not sure I got that one either.

[BenRaines]

Significance of which do you not understand?

Ben Raines

[Moksha]

Significance? A new source of low cost production for a human food source whose continual consumption does not decrease the source itself. It forestalls the conservative Miracle of Malthus and makes life safer for Flipper.

[Moksha]

Oh yeah, there can also be fresh tuna for both Happy and Magic Valleys!

:)

[Jenamarie]

Good Sushi will probably become cheaper as well.

[Elphaba]

I liked the Five Worst Inventions, including this machine that monitored your "smile," in an effort to make the workplace cheerier. As I recall, if you weren't smiling enough, you were in big trouble.

I'd have been in big trouble a lot!

Elphaba

[Jenamarie]

And my husband totally geeked out over the Microsoft gaming system that will require no controller.

[Jbs2763]

Significance? A new source of low cost production for a human food source whose continual consumption does not decrease the source itself. It forestalls the conservative Miracle of Malthus and makes life safer for Flipper.

i'd kill flipper for a tuna fish sandwich

[candyprpl]

Significance? A new source of low cost production for a human food source whose continual consumption does not decrease the source itself. It forestalls the conservative Miracle of Malthus and makes life safer for Flipper.

Yeah thought of all that -- still don't see a Nobel prize winner in the making.

[pam]

Yeah thought of all that -- still don't see a Nobel prize winner in the making.

You mean you have to actually do something of meaning to win the Nobel Prize?

[boyando]

Significance of which do you not understand?

Ben Raines

Speak to us Jedi you will.

[Hemidakota]

The Tank-Bred Tuna - The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - TIME

I wonder if Times is related to the New York Post.

Research on many of the claimed inventions for 2009 did not occur in 2009. A classic example is the teleportation. It is an IBM Fellowship program done at IBM Japan in the latter nineties.

Though, I do not read this rag sheet [magazine] or have a subscription, a thorough research by the editors in providing 2009 inventions vice patents that had occurred in the past. Perhaps, it is more of a deception in gaining readership from the title than providing truism in the content.

[boyando]

Land Speed Record

In August 2009, the British Steam Car, driven by Charles Burnett III, smashed a record that had stood for a century: the land-speed record for a steam-powered car. Burnett drove his vehicle on a track at Edwards Air Force Base at an average of 139.843 mph, breaking a record set in 1906 by Fred Marriott, who drove his Stanley Steamer Rocket at 127.659 mph.

Read more: A Steam-Powered Car Sets a Land Speed Record - Photo Essays - TIME

Makes you wonder what criteria Time uses, to determine what is 'best"?