Year in Ideas 2008

From NYT, my favorites are:

Airbags for the elderly to avoid injury from accidental falling
Biomechanical energy harvesters to gather energy from daily walking etc.
A 35% less friction engine that increases up to 20% better mileage
Climate change defense to protest against potential damage of CO2 emission
The cloth car (not sure how environment-friendly but it looks so cool!)
Mahlangu hand-washer for the poor who live in drought zones
The school-bus classroom
Positive deviance
Smart grids
Upside-down demolition (amazing I didn't know you could build a building from upside-down and demolish it that way).

I don't like:

Carbon penance (Yoyo like carrots not sticks!)
Eat kangaroos to fight global warming
Guaranteed retirement account (Australians are doing much more that now!)
Imaginary kidnapping
Moonvertising
National 10% off sale
The Quinn Solution (lowering risk by sharing it with everybody?)
Rising-tide tax system (I am not again dynamic distribution of income but this approach sounds a bit too costly/confusing)
Women in power are set up to fail (“If someone has to be the scapegoat to take the fall, you’re not going to put your best man forward,” Um. Is that possible women are tougher/more flexible therefore they are more capable of getting us out of trouble?)