The Best Inventions

1. The Best Invention of the Year: NASA's Ares Rockets
   
2. The Tank-Bred Tuna
   
3. The $10 Million Lightbulb
   
4. The Smart Thermostat
   
5. Controller-Free Gaming
   
6. Teleportation
   
7. The Telescope for Invisible Stars
   
8. The AIDS Vaccine
   
9. Tweeting by Thinking
   
10. The Electric Eye
    
11. The Mercury Probe
    
12. The Personal Carbon Footprint
    
13. The Solar Shingle
    
14. The Handheld Ultrasound
    
15. The YikeBike
    
16. Vertical Farming
    
17. The Planetary Skin
    
18. The $20 Knee
    
19. A Watchdog for Financial Products
    
20. The Electric Microbe
    
21. The Bladeless Fan
    
22. The Custom Puppy
    
23. The Cyborg Beetle
    
24. The Biotech Stradivarius
    
25. The Nissan Leaf
    
26. The Robo-Penguin
    
27. The Universal Unicycle
    
28. YouTube Funk
    
29. Dandelion Rubber
    
30. Wooden Bones
    
31. The Living Wall
    
32. The School of One
    
33. The No-Punt Offense
    
34. The Human-Powered Vending Machine
    
35. The Handyman's X-Ray Vision
    
36. Meat Farms
    
37. Packing, Improved
    
38. The Foldable Speaker
    
39. The Levitating Mouse
    
40. The Edible Race Car
    
41. The High-Speed Helicopter
    
42. The Supersuit
    
43. The Eyeborg
    
44. Spiderweb Silk
    
45. The Sky King
    
46. The Smart Bullet
    
47. The Fashion Robot
    
48. The 3-D Camera
    
49. The Newest Cloud
    
50. 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.

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