3 main innovations:

1: new hashing thats designed to be anti asic and more secure (blends different encryption algo's)
2: miners vote on block rewards
3: improvement on the gravity well difficulty adjustment (you dont need a block solved to retarget difficulty).

Now you can judge if you think the above is special - but IMO its better than most of the copy coins.  Of course this all assumes it launches and delivers as promised.