Time Magazine: Losing the Plot?

Time released their list of the Top 50 Best Inventions of 2009. You can have a look at the full list HERE.

I have to say the list is, for the most part, frankly ridiculous. Ok first of all: 'invention' number 49....a new type of cloud. Members of the International Cloud Appreciation Society noticed this new type of cloud, known as undulatus asperatus. I'm sorry, how is this an invention?? Number 33: the no-punt offense...in American football. Umm....do I just not understand what an invention is?

Those aside, the most ridiculous thing on the list, in my humble opinion, is the fact that Microsoft's (currently in development - to be released late 2010) wireless, full body motion controller (for the XBox 360) ranks higher than certain things.....like the AIDS vaccine. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, 1.5 million people died of HIV/AIDS as of the end of 2007 (figures from HERE). 1.5. Million. People. But the ability to play games using your whole body ranks higher than a vaccine that can immunize people against this disease.

Words can't describe how ridiculous this is so I leave it to you to eloquently express the absurdity of it all.

Manuel