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 chef David Chang for his favorite new invention in the kitchen:

'The new iSi CO2 carbonator. It's so simple and easy to carbonate anything, especially liquor. I have a prototype, and it's amazing. Probably going to be in all professional kitchens. And, no, I don't get paid to say this stuff, but it's definitely the coolest gadget I've seen this year.'

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