For the seventh consecutive December, the magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months. Then we lay them out on the dock, flipping and flopping and gasping for air, and toss back all but those that are fresh enough for our particular cut of intellectual sushi. For better or worse, these are 70 of the ideas that helped make 2007 what it was. Enjoy.
Airborne Wind Turbines
Alzheimer’s Telephone Screening
Ambiguity Promotes Liking
Appendix Rationale, The
Best Way to Deflect an Asteroid, The
Biodegradable Coffins
Biofuel Race, The
Braille Tattoo, The
Cardboard Bridge, The
‘Cat Lady’ Conundrum, The
Climate Conflicts
Community Urinalysis
Craigslist Vengeance
Criminal Recycling
Crowdware
Culinary Orientalism
Death of Checkers, The
Digital Search Parties
Edible Cocktail, The
Electric Hockey Skate, The
Faces Decide Elections
Fake Tilt-Shift Photography
Fish-Flavored Fish
God Effect, The
Handshake Sex Appeal
Height Tax, The
Honeycomb Vase, The
Hope Can Be Worse Than Hopelessness
Iconic-Performance-Network Player, The
Indie-Rock Musicals
Interstellar Ramadan
Jogging Politique
Knot Physics
Lap-Dance Science
Left-Hand-Turn Elimination
Lightning Farms
Lite-Brite Fashion
Marijuana Mansions
Mindful Exercise
Minimal Chair, The
Mob Jurisprudence
Murphy Balcony, The
Neurorealism
Next Violin, The
Office-Chair Exercise (for Men and Women)
Pixelated Stained Glass
Pop Fecundity
Posthumous E-Mail
Postnuptial Agreements
Prison Poker
Quitting Can Be Good for You
Radiohead Payment Model, The
Right to Medical Self-Defense, The
Rock-Paper-Scissors Is Universal
Second-World Solidarity
Self-Righting Object, The
Smog-Eating Cement
Starch Made Us Human
Suing God
Telltale Food Wrapping
24/7 Alibi, The
Two-Birds-With-One-Stone Resistance
Unadapted Theatrical Adaptation, The
Vegansexuality
Wave Energy
Weapon-Proof School Gear
Wikiscanning
Wireless Energy
Youtube (Accidental) Audition, The
Zygotic Social Networking
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