"Google Glasses" - Best Invention of the Year 2012

Google Glasses can be picked up as one of the best invention of the year 2012. A computer built into the frame of a pair of glasses, and it’s the device that will make augmented reality part of our daily lives. With the half-inch (1.3 cm) display, which comes into focus when you look up and to the right, users will be able to take and share photos, video-chat, check appointments and access maps and the Web. Consumers should be able to buy Google Glass by 2014.

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year-2012/slide/google-glass/#ixzz2GVjSMRTP

OpenClass LMS (Learning Management Systems)

OpenClass is another kind of LMS (Learning Management Systems) that has fully elearning funcationalities and capalbilities to manage online learning environment. It is the latest and can be said as the most effective Learning Management Systems because it uses mobile and social learning technologies to encourage collaboration and communication for students, faculty, and learning institutions. Elegant and beautiful UI design iPad app was already developed for OpenClass and it is available at iTune app store.
OpenClass systems was developed Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, providing educational materials, technologies, assessments, and services to educators and students of all ages. Pearson is also a leading provider of electronic learning programs and of test development, processing, and scoring services to educational institutions, corporations, and professional bodies around the world.

You can visit more detail about OpenClass at http://www.openclass.com/open/home/index

Flipboard App for Android and iOS mobile devices

Flipboard is a social-network aggregation, flippable magazine style design format application (like iBook app from Apple) for Apple iOS devices such as iPad or iPhone and Android mobile devices.

It is like RSS and it fetches (collects) the content data from subscribed news or social network sites in magazine style format that allows users to flip the contents in magazine style pages.

Originally, it was designed for iPad in December 2010 but the app was updated to support iPhone and Android devices especially Samsung Galaxy S3 in May, 2012, as beta version. The app is
produced by Flipboard, Inc., a U.S. based software company founded by Mike McCue and Evan Doll and the headquarter is located in Palo Alto, California.

Flipboard is Free App and Apple App Store recommended as the most downloaded & recommended social app. It is available to download via http://flipboard.com.