Invention of the Year

I think the IP is the user interface, which is a refreshing and groundbreaking change from the status quo.

However, your point that there may be better inventions lurking in other things may have merit. Still, inventions are not limited to hardware and Apple has done a first class job.

Fair comment...they do come up with real good user interfaces...I must confess you wouldn't find me using an ipod or suchlike but I looked at the user interface on my Son's one ...v slick.

If only all manufacturers spent as much trouble over the user interface...Oh no..is this a potential new thread I see before me?

Del

Personally I believe the invention of years is "Blackberry".

ducon,

RIM introduced the BlackBerry back in 1999.

Did it take until 2007 to make it to your part of the World ?

No . I am still working to get the hang of this damn thing.

My kids are a wiz with this and when the see me totally blank working with this they say" Dada - you're old. You stick to your calculator".

I would expect an invention of the year this trendy, when mass produces to be engineered as Green as he state of the art dictates.

Perhaps the real invention is a UI is so cool that people will stop driving and be mesmerised on the side of the road.

when mass produces to be engineered as Green .

Yeah. When I converted Agro-waste to brequette for fuel & bought the Plant they said you now have "Green" Fuel. The damn thing still looks "Dark Brown" to me!

I like the "6 stroke" engines for originality, economy and environmental friendliness..... sadly there is no car or motorbike with one installed that one can buy at this time!!!

The iphone is a do everything gismo for the peope with more money and time on their hands than they know what to do with. With that said, the rest of us are forced to be equiped with phones that do too much. I want a phone with a black and white screen that I can see, that makes and receives phone calls, Period end of statement. All the rest of the junk on the current crop of phones is wasted on people like me. I know I am not alone,but to tell a clerk in a phone store what I want,gets me a look that I must be from outer space or something,and we can't get anything like that

At least these would keep you warm, and even cook.

People or publications who do not know the difference between a product and an invention, are certainly not qualified to judge the "best invention of the year"

I nominate this as the invention of the year....here.

cr3