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Top toys for 20041) Playstation 22) Xbox3) Barbie4) Bratz

5) Yu-Gi-Oh! cards6) Transformers7) Nintendo Gamecube8) Care Bears9) Legos10) Beyblade11) Zoids12) Gameboy Advance

3 Great Inventions

There are three things invented in my lifetime which, in my opinion, have had a hugeimpact on the world. These three items are DVDs, Cell Phones, and iPods.

DVD (which stands for Digital Versatile Disc) was a new medium for the storage of video. A DVD has an expected lifespan of up to 250 years and can store more video ata better quality than a VHS cassette can. They are a few mm thick and 8 cm indiameter, so they're considerably smaller and easier to store than a VHS cassette is.

Cell Phones that have a battery that will last for days, but are smaller than a deck of cards have enabled one to travel around the world and still contact anyone else in the

world in seconds. This among other things has had a huge impact on businesses aroundthe world.

An iPod is a hard-disc based music player that enables the user to carry up to 15,000songs around in a package that is about the size of a deck of cards. iPods areconsiderably easier to transport than both tape and CD players. This is mostly due tothe fact that all you need to carry your music around is the iPod, itself, no CD's or tapesstacked 20 feet high.

1955--TV REMOTE CONTROL1955--MICROWAVE OVEN

1958--JET AIRLINER The Boeing 707-120

1959--FLOAT GLASS

There's a reason old windowpanes distort everything: They were made by rapidly squeezing a sheet of red-hot glassbetween two hot rollers, which produced a cheap but uneven pane. British engineer Alastair Pilkington revolutionizesthe process by floating molten glass on a bath of molten tin--by nature, completely flat. The f irst factory to produceusable float glass opens in 1959; an estimated 90 percent of plate glass is still produced this way.

1961--CORDLESS TOOLS Black and Decker

1962--COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE Telstar is launched

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1962--LED General Electric, light-emitting diode (LED),

STATS1962/VIDEO GAMES MIT programmers write Spacewar ; 43 years later 89 percent of school-age kids own videogames. 1955/POLIO VACCINE The year Jonas Salk finds a way to prevent polio, there are 28,985 global cases; by2005, the number drops to 1200. 1957/THREE-POINT SEATBELT According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, more than 15,000 American lives are saved in 2005 by Nils Bohlin's device.

1964--MUSIC SYNTHESIZER

1969--SMOKE DETECTOR1970--DIGITAL MUSIC

James Russell, a scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, invents the first digital-to-optical recordingand playback system, in which sounds are represented by a string of 0s and 1s and a laser reads the binary patternsetched on a photosensitive platter. Russell isn't able to convince the music industry to adopt his invention, but 20 yearslater, Time Warner and other CD manufacturers pay a $30 million patent infringement settlement to Russell's former employer, the Optical Recording Co.

1971--WAFFLE-SOLE RUNNING SHOES

Bill Bowerman, the track coach at the University of Oregon, sacrifices breakfast for peak performance when he poursrubber into his wife's waffle iron, forming lightweight soles for his athletes' running shoes. Three years later,

Bowerman's company, Nike, introduces the Waffle Trainer, which is an instant hit.

1972--ELECTRONIC IGNITION Chrysler

1978--GPS The first satellite in the modern Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is launched.

1984--DNA FINGERPRINTING

1958/LASER BEAM Whitens teeth, removes tattoos, corrects vision, scans groceries, tracks missiles. 1978/GENETICENGINEERING Produces insulin, creates vaccines, clones sheep, increases shelf life of tomatoes, manipulateshuman cells to prevent disease.

1958/SUPER GLUE Repairs a broken taillight, reassembles a vase, strengthens knots on a hammock, closes wounds,lifts fingerprints.

LIFESAVERS

1998--MP3 PLAYER2002--IEEE 802.16

Play-dough 1956Slinky 1943a beautiful Monopoly gameMagic 8 BallRubik’sSilly Putty.Scrabble,Pedal Cars,Pogo Sticks, Sleds, Train Sets, Slot Cars, Etch-A Sketch, Slinky, Wee-Lo…even WoolyWilly!