The Best Inventions Of The Year
From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote-controlled dragonfly—a dazzling display of ingenuity
—By Maryanne Murray Buechner, Kristina Dell, Andrea Dorfman, Lev Grossman, Anita Hamilton, Rebecca Winters Keegan,
Jeffrey Kluger, Michael D. Lemonick, Coco Masters,
Lisa McLaughlin, Alice Park, Julie Rawe and Deirdre van Dyk
Apple iPhone
The iPhone changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should
look, feel and perform. The design is exceptional inside and out: It's got a
slick glass-and–stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded
with eye candy. It's an iPod and a 2-megapixel camera. Images and video
clips display vertically or horizontally — they reorient themselves
depending on how you hold the thing. When the phone detects a wireless
network within range — your own home wi-fi set up or somebody else's —it lets you tap once to connect, and then proceed with your Web surfing,
Google mapping, emailing and other activities that can otherwise be
painfully slow over AT&T's cellular network — the only one,
unfortunately, that carries iPhone calls.
PRICE: $399 with two-year contract with AT&T
MORE INFO: apple.com/iphone
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