Looking Back at the 100 Best Innovations of 2009

Posted 12.23.2009 at 4:15 pm 9 Comments

Best of What's New All In One Place:

If you're like me, the holiday break is all about consuming everyone's year-end recaps--and of course, looking ahead to the year to come. We're taking a short break here on PopSci.com, but we're not going to leave you hanging with nothing--here we've compiled both our year-end Best of What's New list and our look ahead to 2010 in science, all in one place for your holiday enjoyment.

• 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!

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Kim - Talkingde...

12/27/09 at 1:23 pm

As opposed to being innovations, these products are more improvements of existing products. They are just evolving to being something useful or efficent. I guess the natural course. I wonder what the next new innovation will be of a product not in use today.

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gregonslaught

12/28/09 at 12:33 am

making innovations is the same as making improvements.
Webster's Dictionary:
in·no·vate
: to make changes : do something in a new way

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NormanRogers

12/29/09 at 9:11 am

I was very curious to see how they improved the snowmobile; alas, the link appears to be broken, fellows.

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Hherbson

12/30/09 at 2:13 pm

I've heard that being totally disconected from the grid is not as easy as it sounds.
#1- it costs almost $100,000 to be totally solar independant.
#2-most homes do not have enough roof surface area pointing in the correct direction for the amount of solar panels you need to generate enough power.
#3- the normal solar aray that most people today can afford (around $30,000)only reduces your monthly electric bill by $75.00 to $100.00 a month. Here in Florida thats peanuts. My monthly summer electric bill is $300.00, and thats reletivly small compared to larger homes.

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animemaster

01/02/10 at 11:54 am

Popsci has been dead for almost two weeks now... I'm going through withdrawals.

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