2007 inventions
R&D Magazine has provided sponsorship to the 'Oscars of Inventions' for 45 years, with the research and design awards longed-for by government and private inventors. In 2007, the magazine awarded 100 winners that offered most amazing innovations. The list of the winning 2007 inventions included homeland security and military innovative devices; innovations useful for health and environment an even innovations for kids, like a cool toy robot.
The list featured a unique air conditioning system able to simultaneously control heat and humidity. This invention was developed to keep us away from 'sick buildings,' that make us sick when we visit them or work in them. The innovative system does not incorporate any filter for holding microbes - it is self-cleaning.
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The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity |
 ... B.C in South-Western Iran);
- fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century;
- invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions;
- the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India;
- brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t... |
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New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans |
 ...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power.
Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ... |
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The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think |
 ... 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in science, medicine and technology. Some of these inventions may seem weird and hilarious nevertheless they are truly breakthroughs in science.
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Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was awarded for the in-depth report that a... |
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Prizes $27,000 Worth For the Best Undergraduate Inventor |
 ...n event meant to encourage young inventors will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 11th and 12th in the University of Wisconsin Madison.
The UW-Madison Invention Days competitions will house 14 inventions designed and built by 49 UW-Madison undergraduate students. Among the presented inventions there will be solutions for ice fishermen, for tailgaters, for potato farmers, for modern laptops and even for airlines.
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