Top ten tech, according to Wired

Priya Ganapati over at Wired posted a top ten list of tech breakthroughs in 2008 including flexible displays, Michael Phelps swimming pants, and memristor.

We at CG haven’t really followed the “big” science, focusing instead on stuff you and I can buy right now in stores or overseas. But it is fun to take a look at the man behind the curtain, as it were, and posit future uses of this powerful technology.

What technology – or technology development – rocked your world this year? I’m thinking about the destruction of the large hadron collider (I so much wanted to type “hard-on”) which points out that even in huge devices blowing crazy quarks around a loop and explode in a shower of sparks.