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

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PC gamers will go gaga over the HP Blackbird 002. For $3,500 you get a 3.0-GHz "extreme" processor, 2 GB of RAM, a top-of-the-line graphics card and two hard drives. The aluminum chassis opens up without tools for upgrades (there's a second video card slot and five slide-out trays), and the whole system is liquid-cooled.
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