With respect to Intercept Technology products, I write quite a bit about looking at things differently. With 7 billion people, there is a flood of information available. Inherent with our sharing mentality, it's difficult to get something truly new and unique.
The newest photos taking earth by storm, thanks to NASA and Ball Aerospace, are of our dwarf neighbor -- Pluto. The New Horizons probe flew 3.6 billion miles to Pluto and took pictures on its way by.
The ongoing contributions of Bell Labs are numerous, to say the least. Imagine a world without -- the fax machine, various lasers, the first satellite, the semi-conductor, and various computer languages. Moreover, imagine a world without Intercept Technology™.
They have made all of these a reality. Their history remains unrivalled in productivity and patents, averaging a patent a day since their inception.