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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Technology
Transportation
- Amtrak's Beef-Powered Train
- Google's Driverless Car
- Martin Jetpack
- Edison2
- Antro Electric Car
- Electric-Car Charging Stations
- The Straddling Bus
- Road-Embedded Rechargers
- Terrafugia Transition
- The Plastic-Bottle Boat
Health & Medicine
Bioengineering
Green Energy
- Deep Green Underwater Kite
- Body Powered Devices
- Power-Aware Cord
- Bloom Box
- The (Almost) Waterless Washing Machine
Clothing
Robots/Software
Military
Miscellaneous
- The Seed Cathedral
- STS-111 Instant Infrastructure
- Better 3-D Glasses
- Responsible Homeowner Reward Program
- Sugru
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