--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # best inventions ## best inventions Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Nov 10, 2021 ## [How We Chose the 100 Best Inventions of 2021](https://time.com/6113028/how-we-chose-best-inventions-2021/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 19, 2020 ## [How We Chose the 100 Best Inventions of 2020](https://time.com/5911857/how-we-chose-best-inventions-2020/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 21, 2019 ## [How We Chose the 100 Best Inventions of 2019](https://time.com/5733385/how-we-chose-best-inventions-2019/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 15, 2018 ## [How We Chose the 50 Best Inventions of 2018](https://time.com/5453189/how-we-chose-50-best-inventions-2018/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 16, 2017 ## [Apple's Jonathan Ive Talks to TIME About Designing the iPhone X](https://time.com/5025887/apple-jony-ive-iphone-x/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by Lisa Eadicicco *  Nov 16, 2017 ## [The 25 Best Inventions of 2017 (16 Nov 2017)](https://time.com/5027078/the-25-best-inventions-of-2017/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 16, 2017 ## [The 25 Best Inventions of 2017](https://time.com/5023212/best-inventions-of-2017/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 19, 2015 ## [The 25 Best Inventions of 2015](https://time.com/4115398/best-inventions-2015/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 20, 2014 ## [See Why Benedict Cumberbatch Is So Photogenic](https://time.com/3596127/benedict-cumberbatch-photogenic/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) by Diane Tsai *  Nov 20, 2014 ## [Benedict Cumberbatch on Playing the Role of the Genius](https://time.com/3596317/benedict-cumberbatch-talks-genius-role/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) by Diane Tsai *  Nov 20, 2014 ## [The Price of Genius](https://time.com/3596955/the-price-of-genius/) [SCIENCE](/section/science/) by Walter Isaacson *  Nov 20, 2014 ## [The Best Inventions of 2014](https://time.com/3594971/the-25-best-inventions-of-2014/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by TIME Staff *  Nov 17, 2011 ## [Behind the Cover: Jamie Chung on Photographing the Hummingbird Drone](https://time.com/28381/behind-the-cover-jamie-chung-on-photographing-the-hummingbird/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Feifei Sun ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/"},"name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/best-inventions/","name":"best inventions"}}]}] ```