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Today's Wall Street Journal lists several technological developments in 2006 which are considered real winners including:
Mechanical skin stapler that places absorbable staples underneath the skin to minimize surgery scars
A new metal that is far lighter than solid aluminum and steel
Lighting system that creates no heat and uses only 20% of the energy of traditional lighting
Translucent photovoltiac solar panels that can be imbedded within a building's structure as a skylight or curtain wall
A transparent electrically conductive coating thaty can be used to make displays
Disposable labels that monitor temperatures of perishables during shipping process
Exhubra, a powdered inhalable insulin for treatment of diabetes
A form of diamond systhesized from natural gas making diamond a practical engineering material
This is just a sampling of what happened in the last year. Makes an old person wand to stay around just to see what will happen next.
(Joke - they are working on a sensor that will tell when a patients financial assets are depleted and that will automatically pull the plug!!)