
• Click here to launch our Best of What's New list gallery with all 100 innovations, sorted by category. You may have already checked out our list on the Best of What's New site; if not, it's a great way to get familiar with the best of the year in gadgets, engineering, green tech and more. Be sure to use the links within the gallery to check out more photos and video over on the Best of What's New site.
• And click here to check out our 2010 preview from the January issue to get a jump on the stories to follow in medicine, aviation, space, entertainment and more.
We'll be back in the new year ready to dive into the maelstrom that is the Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest electronics tradeshow in the world. The fun begins in Las Vegas on January 6.
Have a happy holidays and an excellent new year everyone, and as always, thanks for reading. It's been a great year, and much of the thanks for that is due to you!
Five amazing, clean technologies that will set us free, in this month's energy-focused issue. Also: how to build a better bomb detector, the robotic toys that are raising your children, a human catapult, the world's smallest arcade, and much more.


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Time warp... I must've stepped into a time machine without knowing it if I truly am looking FORWARD to 2010!
lawsonrw,
You make a great an obvious observation for all of us. We are currently in the year 2011 approaching 2012 fast and yet POPSCI decides to go retro for 2009. Maybe in the new year of 2012, POPSCI will write an article of 2008 in remembrance.
"DOH!" *slaps hand to forehead*
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"hahaha let's see what kind of comments pop up on THIS post!"