Articles
Coolest Inventions 2004: Cook Smart
SQUARE MEALS It's a cook's nightmare: you make a beautiful cake or lasagna and then struggle so hard to wriggle a piece out of the pan, it looks like a collapsed...
Coolest Inventions 2004: Safety Net
BUG BARRIER Dangerous malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa have a new foe: the next-generation Olyset bed net, which is made of a durable plastic weave...
Coolest Inventions 2004: Over Board
DREAM BOAT The world's fastest yacht with a single hull is a 140-ft. carbon-fiber wonder. With two 148ft. masts and five sails, the silver-colored Mari-Cha IV,...
Coolest Inventions 2004: Now Hear This
GOOD VIBRATIONS Poor reception is the curse of all cell phones. While there is little you can do about your carrier's spotty coverage in any given location, you...
Photo Essays
Menlo Park: The World's First R&D Lab
A small village in New Jersey was the setting for some of Edison's greatest inventions
Inventors and Their Inventions
Photographer David Friedman explores the inspiration that moves inventors
Time.com Specials
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...
The 50 Worst Inventions
From the zany to the dangerous to the just plain dumb, here is TIME's list (in no particular order) of some of the world's bright ideas that just didn't work out...
