Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations from ...

Some inventions are undeniably clever yet surprisingly irritating in everyday life. These inventions, though meant to be helpful and solved many purposes, instead annoyed millions of people. These ...

Does it ever feel like nature is trying to kill you? Over the last few centuries, some inventions have given the Grim Reaper ...

I’ve always found patents fascinating. Not just because they protect ideas but because they often reveal the odd, innovative, and sometimes downright quirky side of human creativity. When I started ...

Cognixion's non-invasive brain-computer interface powered by conversational AI, has been honored by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2025, celebrated for "giving voice to the voiceless." ...

For each of the past 25 years, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. The first, published under a cover featuring the protracted Bush ...

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for over a decade, searching for signs of past life. The James Webb Space Telescope allows scientists to see deeper into the universe than ever before.

LifeStraw—whose Max water cleanser, designed to clean impure water at a population level, was one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023—went in a more personal direction with its new device. The Sip ...