9 Unrecognised Technology Innovations
2. IP Cameras
Cameras that use the Internet to stream video have gone largely unnoticed. Axis Communications, the company that invented IP cameras back in 1997, says only 40 percent of the security cameras in use today are connected to the Web.
IP cameras can scale much faster and the quality is superior. Adding 32 cameras is like plugging more computers into a hub. They are also very affordable and provide features such as motion tracking.
3. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
The MIME email standard brought a revolution in a new age of rich messaging, turning raw text email into something much more useable—email with attachments, images and HTML encoding. Computer scientist Nathaniel Borenstein, one of the co-founders of MIME worked on this in the mid-1980s and sent the first email attachment in March 1992. Some experts estimate that the MIME standard now processes email about 1 trillion times per day.
