The Best Inventions Of The Year
From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote-controlled dragonfly—a dazzling display of ingenuity
—By Maryanne Murray Buechner, Kristina Dell, Andrea Dorfman, Lev Grossman, Anita Hamilton, Rebecca Winters Keegan,
Jeffrey Kluger, Michael D. Lemonick, Coco Masters,
Lisa McLaughlin, Alice Park, Julie Rawe and Deirdre van Dyk
Water Works
Some people look at a waterfall and see water. Other people—people who work at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory—see a building material or a computer display. Or both. The walls of the Digital Water Pavilion at next year's Expo Zaragoza in Spain will be sheets of water flowing from computer-controlled nozzles that shape them into endlessly scrolling words and patterns.
Available Next summer
digitalwaterpavilion.com
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