Here are the 2024 best inventions making the world better, smarter, and more fun.

Here are the 2023 best inventions making the world better, smarter, and more fun.

The Best Inventions of 2022 200 innovations changing how we live Apply now to be considered for TIME Best Inventions 2025

The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 From a rocket of the future to a $10 million lightbulb, here are TIME's picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year

The 50 Worst Inventions From the zany to the dangerous to the just plain dumb, here is TIME's list (in no particular order) of some of the world's bright ideas that just didn't work out

Here are TIME's list of the best inventions of 2022.

TIME Best Inventions are evaluated across a wide range of sectors and features – from accessibility to sustainability, healthcare to fashion – and thoughtfully assessed on their …

Best Inventions of 2002 A Foam-Rubber microphone, a stealth surfboard, a genetically modified tomato — among this year's crop of fresh ideas, here are some of our favorites

Best Inventions of 2008 From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper — here are TIME's picks for the top …

Best Inventions of 2003 Among this year's favorites: fish-skin bikinis, a new love drug, the car that parks itself and the invisible man