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| 1. In 2007 Gow's iLIMB … as one of «Popular Science» magazine's best innovations. | a) was invented |
| 2. YouTube … in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. | b) is equipped |
| 3. Each part of artificial hand … with its own motor-control system. | c) was named |
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INVENTIONS IN THE LAST DECADE
| The 21st century has seen the birth of many new inventions. Many of the most famous have been in the field s of communications and Internet technology, but some inventions in other fields have been important as well. Many people would find it difficult to imagine the world without these advances, as they have become an essential part of our daily life. | 
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The most important inventions in the field of communication technology include smartphones, social networking sites, and «wiki» style information websites. These inventions have allowed people to communicate through various means, read multiple electronic books, keep up with activities in their social circle, edit information in online encyclopedias, all on a single platform in some cases.
The past decade has seen some innovations in medical technology. The most notable of these was the AbiCor artificial heart. The product of 30 years of research, the AbiCor artificial heart allows patients to receive heart transplants without a donor. The AbiCor heart is made of a complex combination of timers, pumps, and tubes, and functions just as well as, if not better than, an actual human heart. With a great leap in the field of science and technology at the beginning of the 21st century, people were able to become witnesses of numerous inventions some of which are already helping patients worldwide, while other devices could lead to serious innovations in the near future.
Over the past decade many inventions have been made in outer space engineering. SpaceShipOne, the first commercially viable space shuttles, is one of them. It is the first private manned vehicle to travel beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the first airplane to circumnavigate the world without refueling. SpaceShipOne allows civilian passengers to travel in space for a fee. It is different from NASA spacecraft in being smaller and more compact. NASA's Ares spacecraft was another important invention made over the past decade. It is a gigantic space shuttle that may have the capacity to take astronauts to Mars and beyond. The name «Ares» refers to the Greek deity Ares, who is identified with the Roman god Mars. NASA's Ares spacecraft was originally known as the «Crew Launch Vehicle» (CLV).
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