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Hello guys,
We should post some of the amazing inventions here. Or any recent invention that you have come across.

A Camera For the Blind -
Paradoxical as it sounds, the Touch Sight camera makes it possible for the visually impaired to take pictures. The photographer holds the camera up to his or her forehead, and a Braille-like screen on the back makes a raised image of whatever the lens sees.

TX Active: Smog-Eating Cement -
Courtesy of Italcementi GroupTX Active is a self-cleaning and pollution-mitigating cement developed by the Italian company, Italcementi that can reduce pollution (nitric oxides) by up to 60%. TX Active contains a titanium dioxide based photocatalyzer. Through photocatalysis, the product reduces the maintenance requirements for concrete by destoying most pollutants that causes discoloration. Also, the cement effectively destroys airborne pollutants, which are responsible for pollution. The product can be used for roads, pavements, parking lots, buildings, and anyplace regular cement is being used. This one gets my vote for invention of the year. If we are going to pave paradise, let us at least give paradise a fighting chance to recover.

The Speedo LZR Racer -
Ninety-four percent. That's the percentage of Olympic swimming races won in Beijing by athletes wearing the LZR, a second-skin suit that's the first to be made with ultrasonically bonded seams. The LZR, which was co-designed by nasa experts, comes with a built-in corset to improve buoyancy and is constructed with compression fabric that keeps muscles from vibrating in the water. All of which was enough to ensure victory for Michael Phelps a history-making eight times — including a 0.01-sec. win in the 100-m butterfly. Phelps, however, was wearing only the bottom half of the suit (to keep his shoulders from being constricted), while the silver medalist had donned the full-body version. Which makes you wonder just how much faster he might have gone ...

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Facebook for Spies
Secret agents are people too. They're just very scary people who know lots of classified information. So don't they deserve a social network of their own? That's why in September, the Federal Government launched A-Space, a highly restricted Facebook-style website that's designed to encourage the sharing of ideas and information among members of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA and the U.S.'s 13 other intelligence services. (If you can name them all, you're probably already on A-Space.) They still use Facebook to break up with each other like the rest of the world, though.

Bionic Lens - New Active Contact Lens
University of Washington Inventor, Babak Parviz has invented a contact lens embeded with solar-powered leds and a radio-frequency receiver. Intially, Babak Parviz developed the contact lens to wirelessly communicate medical information about the health of the eye and wearer. However, other applications were soon realized. According to Parviz, "There are many possible uses for virtual displays. Drivers or pilots could see a vehicle's speed projected onto the windshield. Video-game companies could use the contact lenses to completely immerse players in a virtual world without restricting their range of motion. And for communications, people on the go could surf the Internet on a midair virtual display screen that only they would be able to see."
Flying Windmills - Wind Turbines That Harvest the Jet Stream

Sky Windpower
A San Diego company, Sky Windpower has invented flying wind turbines to be used in high-altitudes. The company estimates that just 1% of the energy from the jet stream could satisfy the energy demands of the entire planet. Sky Windpower's Bryan Roberts has long been convinced that high altitude wind energy can be captured. He has demonstrated that Flying Electric Generator(FEG) technology is practical and should work at high altitudes - this is the "Flying Windmills" technology.