Time lists the Natal as the 5th best invention of 2009

Do you think it is a bit to early to talk about it?

What do you think about the other inventions and their importance to humanity?

The list: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1934027,00.html

1. The Best Invention of the Year: NASA's Ares Rockets
2. The Tank-Bred Tuna
3. The $10 Million Lightbulb
4. The Smart Thermostat
5. Controller-Free Gaming
6. Teleportation
7. The Telescope for Invisible Stars
8. The AIDS Vaccine
9. Tweeting by Thinking
10. The Electric Eye
11. The Mercury Probe
12. The Personal Carbon Footprint
13. The Solar Shingle
14. The Handheld Ultrasound
15. The YikeBike
16. Vertical Farming
17. The Planetary Skin
18. The $20 Knee
19. A Watchdog for Financial Products
20. The Electric Microbe
21. The Bladeless Fan
22. The Custom Puppy
23. The Cyborg Beetle
24. The Biotech Stradivarius
25. The Nissan Leaf
26. The Robo-Penguin
27. The Universal Unicycle
28. YouTube Funk
29. Dandelion Rubber
30. Wooden Bones
31. The Living Wall
32. The School of One
33. The No-Punt Offense
34. The Human-Powered Vending Machine
35. The Handyman's X-Ray Vision
36. Meat Farms
37. Packing, Improved
38. The Foldable Speaker
39. The Levitating Mouse
40. The Edible Race Car
41. The High-Speed Helicopter
42. The Supersuit
43. The Eyeborg
44. Spiderweb Silk
45. The Sky King
46. The Smart Bullet
47. The Fashion Robot
48. The 3-D Camera
49. The Newest Cloud
50. The World's Fastest (Steam-Powered) Car

poor thread title, interesting thread. some great winners and some odd balls too.

well, controller free gaming is certainly NOT A NEW INVENTION... We had this controller free gaming on the PS2 with the Eye Toy. And this is not a PS EYE vs Natal debate, it is a fact! A cold hard fact. And Natal is certainly not a greater invention than AIDS-vaccine or teleportation or basically any of the other inventions named on that list. Just shows how little serious the list is when controller free gaming, which isn't even new OR released, is this high on the list.

The AIDS vaccine proves that this is little more than a wishlist and not actual proven inventions.....

grats MS!

wtf is this list really? Sounds like a bunch of people got together whilst drunk and made a list of future inventions with no real knowledge of any of them.

Considering this was really a popularity contest than anything else it shows how much progress Microsoft has made in 6 months since they unveiled Natal to the world. Natal doesn't need to win the technology awards it needs to win popularity contests like this one and getting the number 5 spot is pretty good work.

Lame.....I'd like to see NATAL fully utilized before it gets any awards

How can you get an award for something that has not even come out.