The most outstanding technology inventions in 2008

Time magazine of America has just released a list of the 50 most impressive life-changing inventions of 2008. Here are the most unique inventions related to computer technology.

Hulu.com

Unlike YouTube and online video download sites for amateur people, Hulu is at the center of a network of many major television studios. This website provides customers with demand for shows of nbc, Fox, pbs, etc., including both free and costly. Designed for the initial purpose of counterbalancing YouTube 'for everyone', Hulu is now the most vivid evidence of a future Internet in which commercial goods can live with the product. Free for users to upload to the Internet, and is a warning bell for the "dead end" of on-demand television service.

Internet from orbit

You will soon be sent to receive email, browse the web from outside the earth through the special data transfer protocol being developed. Keeping regular and continuous connection from outer space is not simple, so 'out-of-band' Internet will have to be able to handle very good latency and interruption. Last September, the first satellite to support this type of Internet tested sending the Cape of Good Hope image to Earth.

The fastest computer in the world

On May 26, at 3:30 am, the world's fastest 133 million-dollar supercomputer Roadruner for the first time crossed 1 million billion calculations per second in computing history. This supercomputer was designed and assembled by the Los Alamos laboratory, designed by IBM. Roadrunner will mainly use the simulation of the decay effect of nuclear weapons.

Memristor

As a compound of 'memory resistors', memristors are resistors capable of increasing or decreasing resistance according to need. Known 37 years ago, scientists have not been able to create true memristors until recently. Application in IT? The computer will instantly turn on like a light bulb without consuming boot time.

Spore

Spore is the only video game rated 'inventive', thanks to the extremely unique way of playing: players become 'creators', designing and caring for the evolution of a whole a single-celled era to a civilization capable of traveling out of space, throughout millions of years of history.

Solar battery is a thin blade

Solar cells are no stranger, but it's difficult to be popular for simple reasons: the cost of producing batteries is greater than the amount of electricity saved. Until this conflict is resolved, solar batteries are still the luxury of wealthy brothers who want to 'protect the environment' rather than money. Thin blade solar batteries like Nanosolar's film promise to solve this difficulty: cheap, light, easy to produce.

Internet everywhere

Last September, several major technology firms, including Cisco and Sun, solemnly signed the establishment of the Smart Objects Alliance, promising to collaborate on the design of a new Internet-enabled device that allows objects to be identified. and interact with each other through sensors: from household goods, products in factories, to vehicles traveling on the road - similar to people interacting with each other over the Internet.

Google's floating data center

Internet is not as free as it seems - the most expensive cost is always for huge data centers, costly space, power consumption - the amount of electricity used by data centers accounts for 1.5% of the total electricity of the whole country. America in 2006. Google engineers seem to have found a solution: build floating data center on the sea. According to the company's product protection application, this 'building' will use wind turbines and wave energy to power itself. Seawater will take over cooling tasks, helping to reduce the load of energy running air conditioners. And finally, the sea surface will not be taxed as land!

Camera for the blind

'Touch crazy' right from the name, Touch Sight is a promising model to help users take photos of their surroundings. The photographer needs to hold the frontal camera when shooting, the screen is capable of displaying dots of Braille that will reproduce the scene around you as a visually impaired person.