The 50 Best Inventions of 2010

Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year's biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts

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Peter James Field for TIME

We asked director Judd Apatow for his favorite movie invention:

'There have been no innovations in movies this year. Avatar was the high point. It is all downhill from there.'

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