Best Inventions of 2006 by Time Online

Transportation Inventions: Tesla Roadster 100

Zero to 60 in 4 sec., tops out at more than 130 m.p.h. and has no gas tank – 100% electric. It is not only drivable but you can put your gas guzzling conscious at ease with this statement against pollution and oil dependence. Stop coughing words; I know what you’re saying!

It’s a sleek small red bulls eye must have for any California Gold Digger.

Home Inventions: Loc8tor

St. Anthony may be losing some of the prayers that are consistently directed his way in locating lost items. With Loc8tor you can attach radio-frequency-emitting tags to your most losable possessions. It homes in to within an inch of your item, while the tag itself emits helpful beeps as you.

Here is the greatest part. I went to the website where they promote the Loc8tor to read the products selling points. Here they are.

Protect your possessions with your personal locator device

• Lost your keys?
• Misplaced your mobile?
• Worried about valuables, pets, or children going astray?

Now you too can add Loc8tor to the collar of your beloved pet and you’ll never lose him again. If your in the need for some entertainment just put Loc8tor in spot he can’t reach such as his favorite magazine or shirt in the cleaning closet and watch him try to remove it… hours of fun. OH and it’s great for dogs too!

The only thing the system can't do is locate the Loc8tor itself. For that you still need St. Anthony. (-Time Online)

Home Inventions: Air Mattress

Best Invention or future lawsuit?

A Dutch designer inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey has designed the first hovering bed. A sleek slab levitating in midair - unsupported - though lightly tethered at its four corners - 16 in. above the floor.

Its secret is a matching set of repelling magnets built into the bed and the floor below, that's powerful enough to support almost 2,000 lbs. The magnetic fields are supposed to be perfectly safe for sleepers… No comment on other activity… such as eating in bed.

AvailabilityNow for ONLY $1.5 million

Meals Inventions: CrustaStun

Forget Got Milk? That’s totally passé Tomorrow’s catch line will be along the lines of

Shock em & eat em!

A British barrister devised a kinder way to kill lobster and other live sea creatures. His CrustaStun electrocutes them with a 110-volt shock, dispatching them in about five seconds, vs. the two minutes it takes in hot water. A commercial version is already being used by a pair of seafood wholesalers in Britain. A smaller, home version measuring about 1.5 feet in width and depth will possibly be available by year's end. (-Time Online)

I could take this in a really demented direction… but I’ll a reader travel that road.

It’s only going downhill from here.

Clothing Invention: Amazing Embrace

Remember how cool it was to be beamed by anther PDA? OK, it really wasn’t that cool for me since I got beamed by an anonymous stranger on a San Francisco bus while playing a PDA game… it was actually pretty creepy… So let’s just pretend it was cool.

The Hug Shirt, a high-tech garment that simulates the experience of being embraced by a loved one.

Embedded in the shirt are sensors that feel the strength of the touch, the skin warmth and the heartbeat rate of the sender and actuators that recreate the sensation of touch, warmth and emotion of the hug to the shirt of the distant loved one.

I smell sexual harassment lawsuits already.

When a friend sends you a virtual hug, your cell phone notifies the shirt wirelessly, via Bluetooth. The shirt then re-creates that person's distinctive cuddle, replicating his or her warmth, pressure, duration and even heartbeat. And, yes, the Hug Shirt is fully washable.
(– Time Online)

The website says
Why the Hug Shirt?

The Hug Shirt is not meant to replace human contact, but to make you happy if you are away for business or other reasons and you miss your friends and loved ones! It also has some very interesting applications in the medical field with the elderly and children. And is fun to use and very soft!

Toys Inventions: Magic Message Mirror (winner) & Talking Pirate Skull

Here is something to take away the creepy feeling from the last two inventions.

Magic Message Mirror & Talking Pirate Skull was Created by a Hollywood special-effects expert, and is designed to be integrated with your home-security and home-automation networks. Think Bill Gates…. It looks like an ordinary mirror most of the time, but when it's activated, an ethereal face appears on its surface, and it makes timely pronouncements in the voice of a snooty English butler…

• A car has arrived in your driveway
• The Jacuzzi is warm

I have a question. Can I change the voice to sound like my current celebrity lust object? If yes, I’ll consider it...I just need to keep an eye out for anyone driving the Tesla Roadster 100.