Best Inventions in the Last Ten Years

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/top-10-innovations-decade/story?id=9204931

I was reading on abcnews.com and came across the top ten inventions of the decade. It really has been an amazing decade with many improvements in technology. Many of us can remember when computers were leading the way in technology. Now whenever you buy a new computer it is almost outdated when you walk it out of the store. They start the top ten inventions by date so I’ll give you a brief description in the same order. In May of 2000 the GPS system became more affordable and available to the public. These things are everywhere now and are a very handy device that has helped me and many others out tons of wrong turns in any traveling done. In July of 2000 we all remember the release of the Toyota Prius. These cars really are remarkable getting such amazing fuel mileage. Toyota has even sold 1,000,000 of these cars which are still being manufactured in 2009. Also in 2000, AT&T introduced text messaging. I think don’t think many of us could survive without text now. That was a great invention for communication. In 2001 the release of a free encyclopedia was released, Wikipedia, and has millions of people using this web cite every day. One of my favorite things to do on the net is file share, in July 2001 Napster was the first to introduce this type of free file-sharing. I think everyone reading this probably has a free music CD close by. In 2003 Freindster was the first to come up with a social networking web-cite, not myspace or facebook. Many of us use these sites everyday and again feel like we couldn’t live without them. My personal favorite was released in August of 2004, Google. Google has made internet search so easy for many of us. In November of 2006, the Nintendo Wii was launched and gamers everywhere had to have it. This is the first gaming system that was specifically engineered to get you off the couch and get up and game standing up. The Wii is not just for gaming either, many schools are using it to teach and it also has been a leader in helping people loose weight. In June of 2006, the Apple iPhone was released. I have one of these amazing phones and really do believe that I can not live with out it. These phones are so amazing and can do so much that I don’t even want to start to try and tell you what all it can do.

My first reaction to this article was that I can remember all of these inventions and programs being released. I use most of them on a daily basis it seems like. These are great choices for the top inventions of the decade. I do wonder why the plasma TV wasn’t put in there.

I reacted this way because it this article has reminded me what it used to be like with out these great advancements in technology. These different inventions have directly changed almost every American and most of the people on the Earth. I hope to see more of these life changing inventions in the near future.

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