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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...
Coolest Inventions 2004: Fire Fighter
SPLASHING It looks like water. It pours, flows and sloshes like water. But it doesn't get things wet. Its name is 3M Novec 1230 Fire Protection Fluid, and its...
Coolest Inventions 2004: More Music
Tivoli Audio Sirius Radio Satellite radio has made its biggest waves in the world of cars, but now it's coming home. The latest radio from the makers of the cult...
Coolest Inventions: Coolest Inventions 2003
Among this year's favorites: fish-skin bikinis, a new love drug, transparent kayaks, a singing snorkel, the car that parks itself and the invisible man
Coolest Inventions 2002
A foam-rubber microphone, a stealth surfboard, a genetically modified tomato--among this year's crop of fresh new ideas, here are some of our favorites
Inventions of the Year
The process of invention is an endless churn of activity that has little respect for the calendar. But in an effort to celebrate what has become a binge of...
INVENTIONS: Blinding Xerox's Eye
The Xerox Corp. has grown to wealth and prominence by making it relatively easy and inexpensive to copy almost anything. Yet for the past decade, researchers...
INVENTIONS: Cutting Cloth by Laser
The U.S. can battle cut-rate imports better by increasing its productive efficiency than by raising its protective barriers. Last week Genesco, Inc. and Hughes...
Science: Inventions of the Month
¶ By the Army Chemical Warfare Service: a new fire bomb, the M-74, said to be even more effective than the jellied-gasoline M69 (TIME, April 2). A concoction...
Science: Inventions Wanted
David Sarnoff, board chairman of Radio Corporation of America, celebrated his 45th anniversary in radio last week and told his research scientists what new...
Medicine: Motor Inventions
Into Paris last week chugged a 14-passenger motor bus, back from a 3,280-mile turn around France. Its fuel cost had been only $15. The Bleriot Co. (headed by...
Science: Inventions
At Dehra Dun, India, experts of the Forest Research Institute announced the perfection of a process for making white paper out of bamboo pulp; predicted that...
Best Inventions of the Year 2012
Robots, rovers and the rest of 2012's most important innovations, from the affordable to the extreme
Through the Looking Glass: A Tour of the Mirror That’s One of TIME’s Favorite Inventions
We all have an intimate relationship with our bathroom mirrors. But what if the bathroom mirror could talk back?
