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Remote Pregnancy Monitoring

Nearly two in three pregnancies today are classified as high risk, often due to the health or age of the mother. Medical guidelines recommend once- or twice-weekly monitoring sessions for the last eight weeks of...

Personal Sound Boost

The Bravia Theater U, a wireless wearable neckband speaker by Sony, envelopes the listener in a cloud of high-quality surround sound technology without isolating the user or disturbing those nearby. The Bluetooth device (which also...

Custom Prostate Cancer Treatment

Prostate cancer treatment can be tricky to get right: Over-treatment can bring unnecessary side-effects, while under-treatment risks letting the disease spread. This is why medical software company Artera uses AI, combined with a dataset of...

Barbecue Without the Hassle

Smoking barbecue typically requires a backyard, over ten hours of supervision, and skill. The Smart Indoor Smoker requires none of these things. GE Profile has pioneered an active smoke filtration system that allows pitmasters to...

A Better Meat Thermometer

Overcook chicken, and you’ll get sawdust; undercook it, and you’ll get salmonella. The Twin TempSpike thermometer allows for precision cooking—whether grilling, smoking, roasting, or baking—that removes all guesswork. Users can stick the probe in the...

An Artistic E-Reader

Kobo’s Libra Colour is the first mainstream e-reader with a color e-ink screen that gets illustrations just right. “A lot of companies give you a lot of settings for how you can control and configure...

The Best Inventions of 2023

The Best Inventions of 2022

How We Chose the 100 Best Inventions of 2021

Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.) To assemble our list of 2021’s Best Inventions, we solicited nominations across a...

The Best Inventions of 2021

How We Chose the 100 Best Inventions of 2020

Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.) To assemble our 2020 list, we solicited nominations both from our editors...

The Best Inventions of 2020

Terms and Conditions: TIME's 2020 Best Inventions Search

PARTICIPATION IN THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES PARTICIPANT ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. TIME’s 2020 Best Inventions Search (the “Search”) is a skills competition; chance will play no part in determining the award...

How We Chose the 100 Best Inventions of 2019

Every year, TIME highlights the Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.)To assemble our 2019 list, we solicited nominations across a variety...

How We Chose the 50 Best Inventions of 2018

Every year, TIME highlights the Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.)To assemble our 2018 list, we solicited nominations across a variety...

Apple's Jonathan Ive Talks to TIME About Designing the iPhone X

Apple's design chief talks about the removal of the home button, overcoming challenges, and more.