This document discusses technological inventions in 2012 and provides definitions and examples. It begins by defining technological invention as devising and producing something useful and previously unknown through investigation and experimentation. Graphs show research and development spending from 2000-2010 by Germany, the US, and Japan. Examples of 2012 inventions described include a supermarket checkout scanner using object recognition, a quantum teleporter, a flying car, Google Glass, the Mars Curiosity Rover, solar-powered Bahar Towers that move with the sun, a deep-sea submarine, a drifting fish farm, the Tesla Model S electric sedan, and a 3D printer capable of copying or designing new objects in various materials.