The 100 Greatest Innovations Of The Year

Popular Science's Best Of What's New Awards, all in one place

By Rafi Letzter

Published Nov 22, 2014 6:00 PM EST

robot blue eyes WowWee MiP — Jonathon Kambouris

Each year, Popular Science picks the 100 greatest new innovations in technology to feature in our Best Of What’s New issue. Discover the most exciting developments in consumer gadgets, sustainability, medicine, automobiles and more.

Follow links in the captions to our special Best Of What’s New website for in-depth analysis, Q&As, and our Grand Award winners.

Apple Mac Pro — Jonathan Kambouris

Intel 14nm 'Broadwell' Wafer — Intel

WiGig — Wi-Fi Alliance

Samsung 850 Pro Solid State Drive — Courtesy Samsung

Corsair Gaming K95 RGB — Jonathan Kambouris

POC Helmet Integrity System — Jonathon Kambouris

Abominable Labs F-BOM — Jonathon Kambouris

AvaTech SP-1 — Courtesy AvaTech

Shimano XTR Di2 M9050 — Courtesy Shimano

Zwift — Courtesy Zwift

94Fifty Smart Sensor Basketball — Courtesy 94Fifty

Vision Aerial SwitchBlade-Pro — Jonathan Kambouris

Polaris TerrainArmor — Courtesy Polaris

Acer XB280HK — Courtesy Acer

KONE UltraRope — Courtesy Kone

Whooshh Fish Transport System — Whooshh

U.S. Naval Research Lab Electrochemical Acidification Carbon Capture Skid — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Solar Roadways — Courtesy Solar Roadways

Philips and Green Sense Farms — Courtesy Philips

Nikken Sekkei BioSkin — Courtesy Nikken

Crabster CR200 — Courtesy Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering

Newlight Technologies Aircarbon — Jonathan Kambouris

Sydney, Australia — Rob Deutscher via Flickr/CC BY 2.0

Courtesy Motiv Power Systems

Courtesy Aquion Energy

Courtesy Waterfront Toronto

crickets — Arpingstone via Wikimedia Commons

Courtesy Ecosphere Technologies

Ford F-150 — Courtesy Ford

Courtesy GM

Courtesy Toyota

Courtesy Evatran

Porsche 918 Spyder — Courtesy Porsche

Courtesy Amlin Aguri

Courtesy Michelin

Courtesy Nissan

Courtesy Volvo

Rolls-Royce Wraith — Courtesy Rolls-Royce

Dolby Atmos For Home — Dolby Atmos

IMAX Digital 3D Camera — IMAX

Jonathon Kambouris

Blue Microphones Mo-Fi — Jonathan Kambouris

4K Streaming — Courtesy Netflix

Courtesy TiVo

Samsung UN78S9B — Courtesy Samsung

Sony Playstation TV — Sony

WowWee MiP — Jonathan Kambouris

SpaceX

Google

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Popular Science

Courtesy Icon

Courtesy Hybrid Air Vehicles

Courtesy Airbus

Courtesy E-volo

Courtesy JPL

Courtesy Honda Aircraft Company

Sony α7S — Jonathan Kambouris

Courtesy Blackphone

Courtesy Kyocera

Courtesy LG

Jonathon Kambouris

Courtesy Adobe

Courtesy Estimote

Courtesy Stir

Jonathon Kambouris

Virtual Reality — Oculus

Deka "Luke" Arm — Jonathan Kambouris

Courtesy Exact Sciences

Courtesy Convergent Dental

Jonathon Kambouris

Thomas Henry Huxley

Medrobotics Flex System — Courtesy Medrobotics Corporation

RevMedx XStat — Jonathon Kambouris

Courtesy Gilead Sciences

Sproutling baby monitor — Courtesy Sproutling

Clever Medkit — Popular Science

Black & Decker 20v Max Lithium Cordless Drill With Autosense Technology — Jonathon Kambouris

Courtesy Belkin

Jonathon Kambouris

Courtesy Remington

Courtesy CleanAlert

Courtesy Kohler

LG EcoHybrid Dryer DLHX4072V — LG

T-fal OptiGrill — Jonathon Kambouris

Toro Recycler with SmartStow — Brian Klutch

Google Android Wear — Jonathon Kambouris

Carnegie Mellon University

Courtesy Humin

Popcorn Time

Courtesy Respawn

Courtesy Apple

Jonathon Kambouris

Courtesy AS&E

Courtesy Applied DNA Sciences

Courtesy Carnegie Mellon University

Jonathon Kambouris

Courtesy University of Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing

Courtesy Ondot

Jonathon Kambouris

DARPA Flash — DARPA