This document discusses technological inventions in 2012 and provides definitions and examples. It begins by defining technological invention as devising and producing something useful and previously unknown through investigation and experimentation. Graphs show research and development spending from 2000-2010 by Germany, the US, and Japan. Examples of 2012 inventions described include a supermarket checkout scanner using object recognition, a quantum teleporter, a flying car, Google Glass, the Mars Curiosity Rover, solar-powered Bahar Towers that move with the sun, a deep-sea submarine, a drifting fish farm, the Tesla Model S electric sedan, and a 3D printer capable of copying or designing new objects in various materials.

1. Technological Inventions
By: Birutė Andruškaitė

2. dEFINITION
The process of devising and producing — by
independent investigation, experimentation,
and mental activity — something that is useful
and that was not previously known or
existing

3. GERD as a percentage of GDP
3.50
3.00
2.50
2.00
1.50
1.00
0.50
0.00
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
Germany
USA
Japan

4. IN THE YEAR OF 2012
• Supermarket checkout scanner uses object recognition
• Quantum teleporter
• Flying Car
• Project glasses
• The Curiosity Rover
• Bahar towers
• The deep-sea Submarine
• Drifting fish farm
• Tesla model S
• Switchblade drone
• Robot Baxter
• Baseball size orb
• Self-inflating tires
• Techpet
• Enable talk gloves
• Solar technologies
• 3D printer
• ....
• ...
Few interesting ones...

5. Bahar Towers
• Control temperature and save energy
• Moves with the sun
• Simplicity controlled by computer

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8. Tesla model S
• Electric, four door sedan
• 426 km on one charge
• Emission equivalent to 2.6 L/100 km
• Touch screen control

10. project –google - GLASS
• Computer built into the frame of glasses
• 1,3 inch display will work by the
movements of the eyes and voice control
• Interaction with internet

11. 3d printer
• Extrudes ultra-thin plastic layers
• Ability to copy or design new objects
• Can be:
– transparent
– resistant for high temperature
– bio compatible, etc.

14. “The real danger is not that computers will
begin to think like men, but that men will
begin to think like computers.”
Sydney J.
Harris