Top 30 Innovations The Last 30 Years-The ABC's of Gadgetry
Monday, February 16, 2009PAUL KANGAS: NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year by counting down the top 30 innovations of the last 30 years.
SUSIE GHARIB: Tonight, we look at the ideas and products that have had the greatest impact over the last three decades.
PAUL KANGAS: And Susie, as you know, many of the innovations on our list are things we use every day and as Dana Bate reports, often take for granted.
DANA BATE, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Hi there. Welcome to the start of my day which usually involves listening to my MP3 player on the way to work to get me going and normally I would head straight up to the office, but I actually need to get some money from the ATM today. And a lot of times if I don't know where the nearest ATM is, I can punch up my GPS which will show me where the nearest ATM is. But today I know that my ATM is right across the street, so I'm just going to run over, grab some money and then head up to the office. Now that I'm at the office first things first, I have to check my e- mail, see if there's anything that will change our plans for the day, looks like we're pretty much on schedule to do as we had planned. But I also want to take a look at the news wire service that we use, which updates us on breaking news, things that are happening on Capitol Hill. There doesn't seem to be any breaking news. But I want to give a call to my bureau chief Darren Gersh, to see what he thinks and whether or not we're on track for today. Here I am in our control room and that loud sort of buzzing that you hear is actually our converter box that's going to help us with our transition to digital television. And we also get feeds in here from all over Capitol Hill, all over Washington and actually all over the country and all over the world. But right now I have to run. I have to take our morning conference call. But I just thought I'd show you a few of the innovations that help me start my day here at NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT every day.
