INTERNET ERA
Era
INTERNET ERA 1989-present internet, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, GPS, YouTube, streaming
INTERNET ERA – by time represents 0.015% of human existence.
INTERNET ERA – represents 14% of inventions or 275/2000 inventions.
Inventions from the Data communication Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Practical virtual reality | VR | 1989 | Jaron Lanier | USA |
| Nintendo Gameboy | handheld gaming system | 1989 | Nintendo | Japan |
| Wind up radio | free of external electricity | 1991 | Trevor Baylis | UK |
| Web cam | video on/from a personal computer | 1991 | Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Paul Jardetzky | UK |
| Digital cell phone, digital special mobile | DSM replaces analog phone | 1991 | international standard | international |
| Smart phone | allows applications and internet, IBM Simon | 1992 | Martin Cooper, Motorola | USA |
| Playstation | video gaming system | 1994 | SONY | Japan |
| Amazon on line shopping | internet shopping remotely | 1994 | Jeff Bezos | USA (80) |
| Smart phone applications | increases smart phone versatility | 1994 | Hal Abelson | USA |
| On line radio | Broadcast.com, streaming | 1995 | Christopher Jaeb, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban | USA |
| E bay | personal on line selling | 1995 | Pieree Morad Omidyar | USA |
| Video baby monitor | sight and sound wireless | 1997 | Cynthia Altenhofen | USA |
| High definition television | HDTV | 1998 | international | international |
| Bluetooth | wireless control | 1999 | Jaap Haartsen | Sweden |
| Noise canceling headphones, Bose | home use for music | 2000 | Amar Bose | USA |
| Satellite radio | same radio anywhere, no commercials | 2001 | Martine Rothblatt, David Margolese, Robert Briskman | USA |
| X-box | gaming system Microsoft | 2001 | Bill Gates et al. | USA |
| Skype | video phone | 2003 | Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn | Estonia |
| X-box live | competitive gaming on the internet | 2003 | Bill Gates et al. | USA |
| Podcast | video education on the internet | 2003 | Christopher Lyden, Dave Winer | USA |
| World of Warcraft, MMORG | massive multiplayer online role playing game | 2004 | Blizzard Entertainment | USA |
| internet social network | 2004 | Mark Zuckerberg | USA (73) | |
| mini blogging platform | 2006 | USA | USA | |
| Hulu | video streaming on demand | 2007 | USA | USA |
| Iphone | redefined smartphone | 2007 | Steve Jobs et al. | USA |
| Square payment system | personal, portable credit card billing | 2009 | Jack Dorsey | USA |
| Bitcoin | cryptocurrency | 2009 | Satoshi Nakamoto? | 2009 |
| Siri | audio assistant | 2010 | Adam Cheyer, Dag Kittlaus, Tom Gruber | USA |
| 3 dimensional television | 3D TV | 2010 | Japan | Japan |
| Apple Pay | phone to pay credit | 2014 | Greg Kerr | USA |
| Amazon Firestick | smart TV streaming | 2014 | Hon Hai, Precision Industry | USA |
| Apple Watch | smart watch with internet | 2015 | Jony Ive, Marc Newson | USA |
| Skype translator, real time translation | over 50 languages with video | 2015 | Skype | USA |
| Amazon Echo, Alexa | audio assistent smart home | 2015 | Rohit Prasad, Tony Reid | USA |
| Oculus rift, VR | virtual reality | 2016 | Palmer Lucky | USA |
| OshenWatch | pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation watch, bioparameters | 2020 | California | USA |
Inventions from the Data storage Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| World Wide Web | internet | 1989 | Tim Berners-Lee | UK. (24) |
| MP3 compression | allows music with far less memory | 1989 | Karlheinz Brandenburg | Germany |
| USB flashdrive | small, portable memory | 1989 | Dov Moran | Israel |
| Python | computer programming language | 1989 | Guido van Rossum | Netherlands |
| Digital camera | practical, consumer | 1990 | Steven Sasson, Logitech | USA |
| Photoshop | image manipulation | 1990 | Thomas Knoll, John Knoll | USA |
| Linux operating system | Linux OS | 1991 | Linus Torvalds | Finland/USA |
| Digital video disc | DVD | 1993 | consortium of companies | Japan/USA/Netherlands |
| Mosaic XS web browser | early search engine | 1993 | Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina | USA |
| Personal cloud storage | virtually limitless offsite digital storage | 1994 | Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider | USA |
| Yahoo | search engine | 1994 | Jerry Yang, David Filo | USA |
| Compact flash memory | small, portable | 1994 | San Disk | USA |
| C-MOS image sensor | for digital camera | 1994 | Eric R. Fossum | USA |
| Java computer programming language | WORA write once, run anywhere | 1995 | James Gosling | USA |
| Digital video recorder | DVR records TV programs for later viewing | 1995 | Panasonic and SONY | Japan |
| Compact disc - reWritable | CD-RW allows changes in data stored | 1997 | James Russell | USA |
| WiFi protocol | WiFi 802.11 wireless internet | 1997 | John O'Sullivan | Australia (70) |
| Recordable digital video disc | video recorded and edited with much storage of data | 1997 | David Paul Gregg, James Russell | USA |
| popular search engine | 1998 | Larry Page, Sergey Brin | USA (55) | |
| Human radiofrequency identification chip | RFID chip with digital, retrievable data | 1998 | Charles Walton | UK/USA |
| WWW mobile phone access | internet on your phone | 1999 | NTT DoCoMo | Japan |
| TiVo | digital video recorder, smart DVR | 1999 | Jim Barton, Mike Ramsey | USA |
| Blu-Ray | enhanced video quality | 2000 | Shuji Nakamura | Japan |
| Camera phone | images anywhere, anytime | 2000 | Phillip Kahn, Sharp | France/USA/Japan |
| Solid state disc module memory | SSD card, easily transferable data | 2000 | SanDisk, Toshiba, Matsushita | USA/Japan |
| WiFi router | wireless internet in your home/office | 2000 | John O'Sullivan, Vic Hayes, William Yeager | Australia |
| Ipod | compact music, data delivery | 2001 | Tony Fadell | USA |
| Itunes | database of digital music | 2001 | Bill Kincaid | USA |
| Wikipedia | internet encyclopedia | 2001 | Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales | USA/UK |
| Body camera | for law enforcement | 2005 | first used | Denmark |
| YouTube | personal submission video platform | 2005 | Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen | USA (95) |
| Mirrorless camera | allows smaller size, lighter body | 2005, 2008 | SONY, Panasonic | Japan |
| Printing on demand | reduces inventory | 2006 | Victor Celorio | USA |
| Netflix | internet movies and programming on demand | 2007 | Marc Randolph, Reed Hastings | USA |
| Android operating system | Android OS | 2008 | Andy Rubin,Rich Miner, Nick Sears, Chris White | USA |
| 3-dimensional 360 degrees hologram | 3D images | 2010 | SONY | Japan |
| image sharing platform | 2010 | Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger | USA | |
| Ipad | tablet computer | 2012 | Steve Jobs et al. | USA |
| Google glass | computer worn | 2012 | Sebastian Thrum | USA |
Inventions from the Energy radiant Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Ultraviolet light water purification | UV water sterilization | 1992 | Ashok Gadgil | USA/India |
| Antisatellite LASER | space weapon | 1997 | Department of Defense | USA |
| Active denial system, microwave crowd clearing device | heat ray | 2001 | James Jordan Rosenberg, Michael Peter DeLisio, Blythe Chadwick | USA |
| LASER mapping of 3 dimensional objects | digital blueprints | 2001 | Ben Kacyra | USA |
| Improvised explosive device | IED remotely activated | 2001 | international | Middle East |
| LASER pulsed energy projectile | PEP LASER induced plasma explosion | 2002 | E. M. Honig | USA |
| Metal storm machine gun | 1 million rounds/minute | 2007 | J. Mike O'Dwyer | Australia |
| Massive ordinance penetrator | MOP bunker busting bomb | 2007 | Department of Defense | USA |
| Anti-drone LASER | heat generating | 2014 | China | China |
Inventions from the Energy current Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Practical economical lithium ion battery | rechargeable | 1991 | Asahi Kasei, SONY | Japan |
| Universal serial bus | USB | 1999 | Ajay Bhatt | India/USA |
| E cigarette | electronic nicotine delivery system | 2004 | Ruyan Co. | China |
| PowerBuoy | ocean wave energy electrical generator | 2007 | Ocean Power Technologies | USA |
Inventions from the Machines non-transport Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Tippy cup | non-spill lid for a child's cup | 1992 | Mandy Haberman | UK |
| Elliptical exerciser, Precor | low impact aerobic exerciser | 1995 | Precor | USA |
| SONY artificial intelligence robot dog | AIBO AI roBOtic dog | 1999 | SONY | Japan |
| Roomba | autonomous robot vacuum | 2002 | Rodney Brooks, iRobot Co. | USA |
| Rheo microprocessor controlled prosthetic knee | smart knee | 2004 | Hugh Herr, Ossur Co. | USA/Iceland |
| Color night vision goggles | improved contrast and object recognition | 2005 | Alex Toet | Netherlands |
| 3 dimensional printer | commercial digital 3D constructions | 2007 | ZPrinter 450 | USA |
| Robot Looj | gutter cleaner | 2007 | IRobot | USA |
| Nest learning thermostat | artificial intelligence thermostat, smart home | 2010 | Fred Bould | USA |
| Atlas robot | athletic humanoid robot | 2013 | Boston Dynamics | USA |
| Quantum computing | IBM Q system | 2019 | IBM | USA |
| Blaux air cooler, cordless | portable cool air without wires | 2020 | China | China |
| DoDow sleep inducing metronome | timed rhythmic light, sleep aid | 2020 | Alexandre Dujoncquoy | France |
Inventions from the Transport Machines Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Global positioning system satellites | military GPS | 1989 | Bradford Parkinson, Roger L. Easton, Ivan Getting | USA |
| Garmin LTD, ProNav | GPS navigation system | 1989 | Gary Burrell, Min Kao | USA |
| Hubble orbiting telescope | outer space telescope, no atmospheric interference | 1990 | NASA | USA |
| Dual hydraulic zero radius mower | controlled grass cutting | 1990 | Joseph Berrios | USA |
| Fuel cell bus | powered with fuel cells | 1993 | William Robert Grove, Francis Thomas Bacon | UK |
| Boeing 777 | completely computer designed and engineered | 1995 | Boeing | USA |
| Teledyne Ryan Tier II spy drone | aerial surveillance | 1995 | USA | USA |
| GPS guided munitions | exact co-ordinates | 1995 | USA | USA |
| Supercavitating torpedo | Shkval, Mach 1 | 1997 | Russia | Russia |
| Successful hybrid car | gas and electric | 1997 | Toyota Prius | Japan |
| Segway human transporting vehicle | single person transport | 2001 | Dean Kamen | USA |
| Magnetic levitation train | Maglev train, 260 MPH | 2002 | China | China |
| Scramjet engine | faster than jet | 2002 | UK/Australia | UK/Australia |
| Tesla roadster electric car | successful modern electric car | 2008 | Elon Musk et al. | USA |
| Boeing 787 Dreamliner | composite fuselage | 2009 | Boeing | USA |
| Hyperloop pneumatic tube | concept | 2013 | Elon Musk et al. | USA |
| Scramjet flight | 3000 MPH, Mach 5, unmanned | 2013 | USA | USA |
| Self parking BMW | partial autonomous driving | 2015 | BMW | Germany |
| Neopanamax container ship | size limit to traverses Panama Canal | 2018 | international | international |
| Russian hypersonic glide vehicle | Mach 27, 27x speed of sound | 2019 | Pr. Bladimir L. Fraishadt | Russia |
| Jet propulsion suit | over water for safety | 2019 | Richard Browning et al., Gravity Industries | UK |
| Fly boarding | across English Channel | 2019 | Frank Zapata | France |
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Inventions from the Materials, metals Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Intel 80486 microprocessor | 1 million transistors | 1990 | Intel | USA |
| Human radiofrequency identification chip | RFID chip | 1998 | Charles Watson | UK/USA |
| Composite metal foam | hybrid materials | 2005 | Afsaneh Rabiei | USA |
| Porous tantalum | bone compatible | 2005 | Zimmer | USA |
| 3 dimensional metal printing | accurate digital construction | 2018 | Carl Deckard | USA |
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Inventions from the Materials, non-Metals Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Carbon nanotubes | nanotechnology | 1991 | Sumio Iijima | Japan |
| Microencapsulated pesticides in paint | protects against insects | 1996 | Pilar Mateo | Spain |
| Self cleaning windows, titanium dioxide | SunClean windows | 2001 | Pilkington Glass | UK |
| D3O energy absorbing plastic | soft body armour which hardens on impact | 2001 | Richard Palmer | UK |
| Self healing polymers | repairs some types of damage | 2001 | Scott White, Nancy Sottos | USA |
| Optical camouflage | fabric which gives partial invisibility | 2002 | Susumu Tachi, Guy Kramer | Japan/USA |
| Graphene | one molecule thick graphite sheet, super material | 2004 | Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov | UK |
| Self repairing glass | polyether-thiourea | 2017 | U of Tokyo | Japan |
| Ultraviolet light activated bonder | Bondic | 2020 | Thomas Offerman | Germany |
Inventions from the Domestic Biotech Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Genetically modified organism | GMO tomato | 1994 | Jonathan Jones, Cathie Martin | USA |
| Genetically modified organism | GMO corn | 1996 | Boyer and Cohen, Monsanto | USA |
| Dolly cloned sheep | successful mammalian cloning | 1996 | Keith Campbell, Ian Wilmut et al. | UK |
| Genetically modified organism | GMO soybean | 1996 | Boyer and Cohen, Monsanto | USA |
| Genetically modified organism | GMO rice | 1999 | Ingo Potrykus, Peter Beyer | Switzerland |
| Rapamycin extends rodent life expectancy 20% | anti aging drugs, TOR | 2009 | Michael Hall, George Levi | Switzerland/USA |
| Cultured meat | cellular agriculture | 2013 | Jason Gaverick Metheny | USA |
| Genetically modified salmon | GMO salmon | 2015 | Garth Fletcher | USA |
| CRISPR tomato | GMO | 2019 | Jennifer Doudna et al. | USA |
| CRISPR biofuels | biodiesel | 2019 | Jennifer Doudna et al. | USA |
| Impossible meat | leghemoglobin yeast GMO | 2019 | Patrick O. Brown | USA |
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Inventions from the Medical Biotech Classification
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Protease inhibitors | Invirase for AIDS/HIV | 1990 | Joseph A. Martin, Sally Redshaw | USA |
| H. flu vaccine | prevents Haemophilus influenza in children | 1992 | David Smith | USA |
| Hepatitis A vaccine | prevents hepatitis A | 1993 | Stephen Mark Feinstone, Albert Kapikian, Robert Purcell | USA |
| Implanted bionic limb | human/machine hybrid | 1993 | David James Gow | UK |
| Catheter intracardiac cardioverter defibrillator placement | ICD | 1994 | Michel Mirowski, Morton Mower | USA |
| Portable defibrillator | advanced CPR | 1997 | Frank Pantridge | Ireland |
| Viagra, sildenafil citrate | erectile dysfunction treatment | 1997 | Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Pfizer | USA |
| Stem cell lines | stem cell therapy | 1998 | James Alexander Thomson | USA |
| CRISPR technique-Cas9 | DNA splicing genes | 2001 | Jennifer Doudna | USA (93) |
| Telesurgery | remotely performed videosurgery | 2001 | Michael Gagner, Jacques Marescaux | USA/France |
| Clot inducing bandage, chitosan | less bleeding with wounds | 2002 | HemCon | USA |
| Meningitis vaccine | prevents some forms of meningitis | 2003 | Rino Rappuoli | Italy/USA |
| Chicken pox vaccine | varicella prevention | 2005 | Michiaki Takahashi | Japan |
| Human papilloma virus vaccine, recombinant | prevents cervical cancer | 2006 | Ian Frazer | UK/Australia |
| Freestyle continuous glucose monitoring | more effective diabetes treatment and control | 2007 | Abbott Diabetes Care | USA |
| Rotavirus vaccine | prevents rotavirus infection | 2007 | H. Fred Clark, Paul Offit | USA |
| Hepatitis C treatment, sofosbuvir | cures hepatitis C in most cases | 2007 | Michael J. Sofia | USA |
| Full face transplant | extreme cosmetic surgery | 2008 | Laurent Lantieri | France |
| Breathalyzer for lung cancer diagnosis | some lung cancer types | 2009 | Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| Electronic stethoscope | more sensitive to sound | 2010 | 3M/Littman | USA |
| Uterus transplant | allows birth in many cases | 2011 | Omer Ozkan, Muniere Erman Akar | Turkey |