Time Magazine has rolled out a list of the 50 greatest inventions of 2008. Showing up at No. 38 was “The Baseball Instant Replay.”

First off, instant replay is a 50-year-old technology. Second, is doing different stuff with an invention really another invention in and of itself? Apparently it’s pretty easy to get on this list. I think I’ll go use my can opener to hammer nails with. Inventorship, please! And inventorship isn’t even a word! I just invented it! I’m on a roll!

A quick overview of inventions that, in the eyes of Time Magazine, were not as impressive as freaking instant replay in baseball.

- The Peraves MonoTracer. Essentially, it’s a motorcycle with a roof, windshield wipers, and air conditioning. It goes from zero to 62 miles per hour in 4.8 seconds and gets 65 miles to the gallon. I want one in part because I’m always getting rained on while riding my motorcycle, and in part because I do not have a motorcycle.

- Google’s Floating Data Center. An enormous artificial island, to be located off-shore, that contains a massive electronic data storage facility. It will generate its own electricity via wind turbines and wave-powered generators. That’s right, it generates electricity from the waves it floats on. I want to move to the ocean.

- The Touch Sight camera. It’s a camera for blind people. The user holds this thing up to his or her forehead and it generates a precise tactile “image” of what the camera sees. More importantly, it serves as another item that a manager can speculate on, regarding whether a purportedly blind umpire does or does not need it.