Best Inventions of 2007
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
Full List
Invention of the Year
Cars & Buses
- Autonomous Automobile
- Car, Compacted
- The Return of Steam
- Rubber Meets the Rail
- Take the High Road
- Tailpipe Dream
Aircraft
Space
Robots
Entertainment
Law & Order
Living
Environment
Architecture
Fashion
Computers
Health
Tech Buyer's Guide
- Do You Copy?
- This Big Audio's Dynamite
- Three of a Kind: LCD HDTVs
- Talk Is Cheap
- Heavy Hitter
- Three of a Kind: Digital Video Cameras
- Point and Shoot
- Bag Some Rays
- Three of a Kind: MP3 players
- String Theory
- Play Time
- Three of a Kind: Video Game Systems
- Powerhouse
- Game Face
- Net Worth
- Loosey Goosey
- Three of a Kind: Notebook Computers
- Good Call
- A Green Light
- Three of a Kind: Desktop Computers
- Back It Up
Gadget of the Year
- Apple iPhone
- Nikon Coolpix S51c
- Netgear SPH200W Wi-Fi Phone
- Palm Centro
- Sony Handycam HDR-CX7
- Samsung P2
- Toshiba Portégé R500-S5004
- FlyTech Dragonfly
- Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive
- Belkin N1 Vision Wi-Fi Router
Best Inventors
- Archimedes (circa 287-212 B.C.)
- Al-Jazari (circa A.D. 1150-1220)
- Euclid (circa 365-300 B.C.)
- Cai Lun (circa A.D. 50-121)
- Pythagoras (circa 580-500 B.C.)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Johannes Gutenberg (1452-1519)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
- Thomas Savery (1650-1715)
- Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833)
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
- Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
- Arthur Fry (1931- ) & Spencer Silver (1941- )
- Percy Spencer (1894-1970)
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
- Martin Cooper (1926- )
- Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
- Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
- Jack Kilby (1923-2005)
- Gregory Pincus (1903-1967)
- Philo Farnsworth & Vladimir Zworykin
- Stephanie Kwolek (1923- )
- Tim Berners-Lee (1955- )
- Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) & Orville Wright (1871-1948)
- Alec Jeffreys (1950- )
- Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988)
- Ian Wilmut (1944- ) & Keith Campbell (1954- )
Viewpoint
Gadget Poll Results
Special Features:
Most Popular »
- Top 10 Celebrity Restaurants
- Facing the Challenge of China, Should India Embrace the U.S.?
- The Art of Nazi Hunting: How Israel's Mossad Found Adolf Eichmann
- Who Qualifies for the $26 Billion Foreclosure Settlement?
- Why Is Your Boss Moving to Brazil?
- FBI File on Steve Jobs Probed Apple Founder's Drug Use, Character
- TIME's Interview With Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti
- Oscars 2012: Great Performances
- Why Mario Monti Is the Most Important Man in Europe
- The Grand Canyon Bans Sales of Bottled Water
- The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)
- Why Is Your Boss Moving to Brazil?
- Lessons Unlearned: Why Another Gigantic Famine Looms in Africa
- Why Mario Monti Is the Most Important Man in Europe
- Seoul Searching
- Scientists: NASA to Cut Missions to Mars
- Can Israel Stop Iran's Nuke Effort?
- Warren Buffett Is on a Radical Track
- Children of the New India: How Economic Reforms Impacted Upon the Young
- Disney's Hong Kong Headache
