CNN - 10 Inventions To Change The World - #5 MakerBot Digitizer

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The best inventions make us wonder what we ever did without them.


As part of our focus on innovation, CNN is honoring 10 new inventions in technology and related fields. These are gadgets or prototypes with big, game-changing potential: to power villages in the developing world, to assist search-and-rescue teams in responding to disasters, to restore some vision to the blind.


Some are available now, while others won’t come for a year or two, if ever. But all of them are ingenious in their approach to solving problems. And someday, the names of their inventors may be spoken by future schoolteachers.


May we present The CNN 10: Inventions.

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3D Printing/Scanning should be #1 in my book. It's really the entire future of manufacturing. One day, every home will have a printer, and every person will use them on a daily basis.

Are you a futurist? Do you consider great inventions to be gateways through which our lives can be made better? Here's a future forecast of inventions that can alter the globe, thanks to The Futurist magazine. While none of this is supposed to be guaranteed, the potential to save money, time and ultimately life makes them something to be valued.