But, the number one crowd-pleaser was the invention of superminiature robots in 2001.
William Rosen, an American former editor and publisher, ranks it alongside the invention of agriculture as one of the two most important developments in history.
Khare traveled from her California home to Phoenix last week for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where her invention was honored as one of two winners of Young Scientist Awards.
In my opinion, none of the suggestions offered at the conference would change the real problem, which is that the Patent Office examiners are too quick to issue software patents where the so-called invention is obvious to one skilled in the art.
For their part, Dish argues that people have been skipping TV ads, in one way or another, since the invention of television.
The reason Microsoft keeps buying all these other companies is that even with 90, 000 employees it is singularly incapable of one iota of innovation, much less invention.
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One of her principal achievements is the invention of a biochemical sensor with thermoelastic probes, which combines the effects of light and ultra-sound for use in biotechnology.
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The networks, led by Fox, NBC and CBS, claim that such features will ruin the system that finances their shows, while Dish argued that people have been skipping ads, in one way or another, since the invention of TV.
"We've moved on from a temporary aberration where, through the invention of the printing press all the way through to the invention of TV, communication became one-way for a few hundred years, " Grant said.
Of course, managing to play nice with every single powerful handset in the world would be a monumental challenge, and we're still a ways off from having a true laptop-replacing cellphone, but we'd wager that this here invention is certainly not a bad one to have on the drawing board.
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January 27th marks the 131st birthday of one of the most revolutionary, world-changing invention of all time.
As a place of grey nightmare, his France is a fictional invention, to be sure, but one that has had an astounding reception.
Los Angeles as a long-term case study in one of the few cities principally developed after the invention of the automobile reveals an even more depressing underside to the data.
If the addition of the second hole seems like a no-brainer, the fact is that no one was clamoring for an improved Stimpmeter and its invention was essentially an accident.
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Speaking about the invention to Ugandan newspaper New Vision, one of the inventors, Aaron Tushabe, said they conceived the idea of inventing the device after visiting the antenatal department at a local hospital.
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One of the critical advances in western civilization was the invention of legal techniques to restrain government.
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Then came the invention of a vaccine by Jonas Salk, one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century.
This was a popular invention, and for its time a clever one.
But I was just 24, I knew nothing and no one, had no money and no contacts, and the invention of the Web was still several years away.
Drilling a 2 or 3 foot hole can be done with normal equipment, while drilling a ten, fifty, or one hundred foot diameter vertical hole would require an entirely new invention.
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All three runners turned the trick in the 1960s, the last one in 1967 -- four years before Intel's invention of the microprocessor ushered in the Information Age as we know it.
"Back when I first studied brewing, I thought, there must be a better way so I set to work to find one, " says Heiliger, who wants production of his invention to remain in Germany.
Entering a business competition was just one of the ways company owner David Larsen hopes to bring the invention to light.
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In this view, the Internet is as world-changing an invention as the car, and we have now a one-off boost in productivity growth.
It probably is, but even I, who am allergic to cats and have never owned one or had any desire to, could probably have predicted this invention wouldn't fly.
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The multiple ongoing exhibitions in New York City focusing on King Tutankhamun and Egyptiana, as well as an ancillary Tut show in Denver, celebrate one of the first visible flowerings of human creativity the invention of the human, to borrow a term from critic Harold Bloom, and are worthy undertakings.
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Although Paganism is largely a recent invention, and imposes very few constraints on its members, one important branch of it has been designated "officially" a religion.
Ben Kingsley is the instinct-squelching teacher, who passes his own fear and loathing about winning and losing to his student, while Laurence Fishburne is the intuitive one, a Washington Square Park speed-chess freak who inspires exuberant invention.
Besides catching more (or, indeed, any) poachers, he hopes his invention will also prove to be an example of an idea from another one-time electrical engineer, Arthur C.
Read through one of its patents and you will be none the wiser as to what the invention involves - and why it deserves the protection of the courts.
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