🧠 Inventions of 2011
Breakthroughs and everyday innovations from the year.
1 
Voice Assistant (Siri)
2 
Cloud Storage Consumer Services
3 
Electric Vehicle Supercharging
4 
Mobile Payment Systems
5 
Social Messaging Apps
6 
Genome Sequencing Cost Reduction
7 
Digital News Aggregation
8 
Autonomous Vehicle Research Program
9 
Smart Home Automation Platforms
10 
Medical Robotic Surgery Expansion
The Sounds of
The biggest hits of the year — Top 10 Pop & Country chart toppers
HEADLINES ON August 29, 2011
Full News Archive
- Headline: Megan Ellison's Hollywood Investment Revolution. Impact: Megan Ellison's foray into Hollywood opened the floodgates for tech moguls to think they could be Spielberg. This led to a string of cringe-worthy films about algorithms and cryptocurrency that nobody asked for. The film industry still hasn't recovered from the 'Silicon Flop Era' of 2025.. Fact: Did you know that for every successful tech-backed drama, there are at least three scripts about robots overcoming their issues with human emotions? Because that’s what audiences crave!.
- Headline: Police Lineups Start to Face Fact: Eyes Can Lie. Impact: The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision shook the very foundation of police lineups, leading to the rise of the highly controversial 'blindfolded witness' approach. Spoiler alert: It didn't work out well, and now everyone just carries around photo ID cards.. Fact: Did you know that eyewitness accounts are often less reliable than a toddler's explanation of why they broke a vase? The judicial system really took a page out of the kid's playbook on this one!.
Wall Street Time Machine
The Right Call: If you'd invested $1,000 in any one of these companies in 2011, here's what it would be worth in 2025.
Rank #1
NVDA
NVIDIA
Price in 2011
$0.36
Value in 2025
$480,243
NVIDIA - If you invested $1,000 in 2011, it would be worth $480,243 today (480.2x return)
🦸 Top 5 Comics
Detective Comics #1
$1,500,000
Action Comics #1
$8,000
Ultimate Fallout #4
$1,500
Batman #1
$2,220,000
Justice League #1
$750
🧸 Top 5 Toys
LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
$20.00
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
$200.00
Monster High Dolls
$150.00
LeapPad Explorer
$50.00
Beyblade: Metal Fusion
$150.00
🎮 Top 5 Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
$200.00
Portal 2
$30.00
Dark Souls
$200.00
Batman: Arkham City
$16.00
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
$200.00
⚾ Top 5 Trading Cards
2011 Topps Update Mike Trout #US175
$2,000
2011 Panini National Treasures Cam Newton RPA #328
$3,000
2011 Bowman Chrome Bryce Harper Autograph #BCP111
$9,716
2011 Panini Gold Standard Kobe Bryant #24
$1,500
2011 Magic: The Gathering - New Phyrexia's Karn Liberated
$250