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• Time Magazine has published a list of the Best Inventions of 2008. The list, which has been published annually since 2001, includes technological marvels like the Bionic Hand and retail DNA testing as well as more pedestrian items such as Internet TV and Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible Web series. The 2008 list involved 17 writers and editors who used trade journals, design awards and other sources as reference.SF Gate: 23andMe genetic testing called top invention (October 30, 2008)

• Fast Facts

  1. Published in the October 31, 2008 print issue of Time Magazine
  2. Readers can vote on their favorite gadgets on Time's Web site
  3. Past winners include the artificial heart (2001), Tomato Vaccine (2002), iTunes (2003), SpaceShipOne (2004), Michelin's Tweel (2005), YouTube (2006) and the iPhone (2007)

• Time 50 Best Inventions of 2008

  1. The Retail DNA Test
  2. The Tesla Roadster
  3. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
  4. Hulu.com
  5. The Large Hadron Collider
  6. The Global Seed Vault
  7. The Chevrolet Volt
  8. Bullets That Shoot Bullets
  9. The Orbital Internet
  10. The World's Fastest Computer
  11. Green Crude
  12. Housing Funds
  13. The Memristor
  14. The Bionic Hand
  15. The Direct-to-Web Supervillain Musical
  16. The Dynamic Tower
  17. The Mobile, Dexterous, Social Robot
  18. The New Mars Phoenix Lander
  19. Montreal's Public Bike System
  20. The Everything Game
  21. The Synthetic Organism
  22. The Shadowless Skyscraper
  23. The Branded Candidate
  24. Bionic Contacts
  25. Thin-Film Solar Panels
  26. The Speedo LZR Racer
  27. Bubble Photography
  28. The Invisibility Cloak
  29. The 46th Mersenne Prime
  30. The Internet of Things
  31. Einstein's Fridge
  32. Facebook for Spies
  33. Biomechanical Energy Harvester
  34. Made-in-Transit Packaging
  35. Airborne Wind Power
  36. The New Ping-Pong Serve
  37. Smog-Eating Cement
  38. The Baseball Instant Replay
  39. Enhanced Fingerprints
  40. The Seven New Deadly Sins
  41. The Peraves MonoTracer
  42. Disenvoweling
  43. High-Tech Running Shoes
  44. Sunscreen for Plants
  45. The Short Refinance
  46. Aptera Electric Car
  47. Google's Floating Data Center
  48. The Time Eater Clock
  49. Sound-Enhanced Food
  50. A Camera for the Blind

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