R&D magazine has posted its list of the top 10 inventions of 2007, and there is some really cool stuff going on out there. My favorite by far is the biomedical sensor, which can take some blood tests without taking your blood. You just touch it to the skin and it can detect the levels of compounds in the blood without puncture marks. Can a tricorder be far away?

I also got a chuckle out of the comment stream, but not in a good way. The commenting people, after reading about new ways to detect chemical threats, astounding leaps in medical technology, tools to control the spread of superbugs etc, find the only thing they can find
to discuss is the absence on the list of the iPhone. If I need to refer to this overhyped device again I will be referring to it as the iWord, as I am reaching the point where any mention of it makes me curse.

I am overstating for comedic effect of course, but the obsession level of iFans is sometimes worthy of humour.