year 2000 inventions

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...e 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 the list; - ninth position was taken by the discovery of diffraction of Roentgen rays in 1912 by...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...ntists 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 dollars each year. Due to the fact that the organic light emitting devices are very thin and flexible, electronic display screens could be easily created on nearly every material, thus, for example, clothing could, for the first time i...
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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. Medicine 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. T...
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