The Best Inventions The Best Invention of the Year: NASA's Ares Rockets The Tank-Bred Tuna The $10 Million Lightbulb The Smart Thermostat Controller-Free Gaming Teleportation The Telescope for Invisible Stars The AIDS Vaccine Tweeting by Thinking The Electric Eye The Mercury Probe The Personal Carbon Footprint The Solar Shingle The Handheld Ultrasound The YikeBike Vertical Farming The Planetary Skin The $20 Knee A Watchdog for Financial Products The Electric Microbe The Bladeless Fan The Custom Puppy The Cyborg Beetle The Biotech Stradivarius The Nissan Leaf The Robo-Penguin The Universal Unicycle YouTube Funk Dandelion Rubber Wooden Bones The Living Wall The School of One The No-Punt Offense The Human-Powered Vending Machine The Handyman's X-Ray Vision Meat Farms Packing, Improved The Foldable Speaker The Levitating Mouse The Edible Race Car The High-Speed Helicopter The Supersuit The Eyeborg Spiderweb Silk The Sky King The Smart Bullet The Fashion Robot The 3-D Camera The Newest Cloud The World's Fastest (Steam-Powered) Car The Five Worst Inventions The Smile Police Employees at Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan have their smiles scanned by software to maximize cheeriness The Jane Austen Monster Mashup Novel It started with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Please let it end soon. Snuggies for Dogs It's bad enough that humans wear "the blanket with sleeves." Do we have to put them on dogs as well? Do we really? The Gas-Mask Bra You have to admire the good intentions of the inventor who made a bra that converts handily into a pair of gas masks Computer Critics A new standardized test in the U.K. will use software, not humans, to grade student essays. Shakespeare wept. Source: http://www.time.com/time/speci... http://www.time.com/time/speci...