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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The Linksys dual-band wireless-N router ($299) carries your home-network traffic over two frequencies, so it's like getting two hubs in one. The Belkin N1 Vision (not shown) also gives you the greater speed and range of the new N wi-fi standard but for $100 less.
linksys.com; belkin.com

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