Sunday December 02, 2007

- iPhone Elected Gadget of the Year by Popular Science - Yoc - 19:43:30

The American Magazine, Popular Science, has rendered its verdict on the innovations of the year 2007 in the following categories: automotice, aviation and space, computing, engineering, gadgets, green tech, home entertainment, home tech, personal health, and recreation.

It is in the gadgets category that Apple is presently found, with the iPhone, which the magazine has named the gadget of the year. The conclusion of the article sums up very nicely the iPhones interface:

The competition looks downright primitive.

Those who have had the luck to have an iPhone or an iPod Touch between their hands for a few minutes before returning to their old mp3 player or telephone understand what touching the future with your finger means.

Among the other winners, there are some gems, as with the green tech category.
The photovoltaic technology produced by Nanosolar is the most affordable and the most efficient solar cells ever produced. The plant which produces these solar panels will reach full production in early 2008, and will be able to produce more Watts than all the other American plants combined. The solar revolution is at our door (and in our reach)?

In the recreation category, the winner is a bike using a variable transmission system, which uses a schema invented by Mr. De Vinci himself. In the space and aviation category, the winner is a satellite built by the French space agency CNES which is able to detect planets hardly bigger than the Earth which could possibly contain water due to their distance from their sun. A searcher for extra terrestrial terra in some manner.

If you are interested, check out the rest of the site to see all the technologies which merit a good look.

[translation by jwa]