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Every year, the editors of Popular Science put hundreds of home-brew inventions through a rigorous vetting process. Are they genuine innovations? Do they solve serious problems? Do they have a chance to become real-world products? This year, the process was no less daunting, but at the end, 10 stood above the rest.
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