December 2010: The 100 Best Innovations of the Year
Including a portable oasis, road-ready speedboat, the world's tallest building, and more
Best of What’s New
Innovation of the Year
The AquaPro Groasis Holland Waterboxx
[Grand Awards
- Gadgets: Apple iPad
- Green Tech: AquaPro Holland Groasis Waterboxx
- Engineering: Burj Khalifa
- Health: GE Healthcare Vscan
- Security: Hyrdronalix EMILY
- Computing: Intel Wireless Display
- Home Tech: Neato Robotics XV-11 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
- Home Entertainment: Panasonic Viera TC-P50VT25
- Auto Tech: Porsche 918 Spyder
- Recreation: Sealegs 7.1M RIB
- Aviation and Space: Solar Impulse HB-SIA
Innovators
A Leg Up
For a crutch inventor, injury is the mother of invention
A New Way of Flying
How a record-breaking pilot made it through the night in a sun-powered plane
Cement From Thin Air
A biologist’s plan for radically reducing carbon emissions
Categories
- Auto Tech
- Aviation and Space
- Computing
- Engineering
- Gadgets
- Green Tech
- Health
- Home Entertainment
- Home Tech
- Recreation
- Security
Headlines
- NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit
- A New Greenhouse Could Provide Food and Oxygen to an Entire Lunar Colony
- A Science Experiment in South Pole Ice Searches for Clues About How Dark Matter Works
- ** Underground Radon Detectors Could Forecast Earthquakes Before They Happen**
- Five Contests That Recognize Science Achievements of the Everyman
How 2.0
- Gray Matter: Our esteemed columnist takes on his mad-scientist rival in Japan
- Assemble a Weatherproof, Solar-Powered Rig That Lets You Leave Your Computer for Days
- An iPhone-Controlled LED Suit Tears Up the Dance Floor