TIME’s Best Innovations of 2008
From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper — TIME’s picks for the top innovations of 2008. Yesterday, we looked at a couple of innovations. Today, two more.
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.Enhanced Fingerprints
English physicist John Bond developed a technique for analyzing fingerprints on a gun after it’s been wiped clean. Sweat corrodes metal, so Bond applied an electrical charge and a fine carbon powder to a gun’s corroded part, revealing a fingerprint pattern. Police are already using the four-month-old technology to reopen some cases.Photo by TIME.
Jaclyn on November 5th, 2008 1:45 pm
I think the camera for the blind is a great idea! That has got to be one of the best and coolest inventions yet…Even the visually impaired like to take picture’s, and it’s about time we started coming up with some technology that enables that for them.
CoolProducts on November 5th, 2008 3:11 pm
Those are very innovative ideas, but are the really the MOST innovative of 2008?
Cassy on November 5th, 2008 6:12 pm
The invented camera for the blind is one way of giving the the blind’s great hope, trying to make themselves more comfortable in doing thing’s that the good sighted can do… it is a great known invention for them to do thing’s in life without thinking their situations.
Sharon Wilson on November 5th, 2008 9:16 pm
That camera – what an intriguing idea! It’s exciting to see the types of amazing solutions that people’s minds can be open to!
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