Please post some recent inventions/ innovations if you happen to know one...?

Answer 1

New waterproof patlabour robot:
http://actionnooz.com/news-video/japanese-scientists-make-waterproof-robot/

Here's a link to a nice set of journals which you might be able to browse:
http://www.iop.org/EJ/

Ooo, and these people:
http://www.innovations-report.com/reports/reports_list.php?show=2

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/9c528de705103110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Answer 2

In 2006, the solution to one of the oldest mathematical conjectures was proven, the Poincare Conjecture. It was one of the 'millennium problems', and, pending verification, its solver will be awarded a sum of $1 million, and likely a nobel prize in mathematics.