TIME has picked its choices for best inventions of 2009. Those that got the votes range from best new gadgets to best new breakthrough ideas of the year. Here are some:
The breeding population of the highly migratory southern bluefin tuna has dipped to more than 90 percent since the 1950s. It seemed that the southern [...]

The best, smartest, and coolest thing built in 2009, according to TIME, is ‘a machine that can launch human beings to cosmic destinations we’d never considered before.’ This is called NASA’s Ares Rockets. Previous to this invention, astronauts had not been able to move ‘beyond the harbor lights of low-Earth orbit in nearly 40 years.’ [...]

Have you ever missed an important appointment with your doctor or a romantic date because you forgot about it? VibraLite 8, the vibrating watch can help you solve this issue of forgetfulness. The watch comes with 8 alarm settings and Auto Reset Countdown Timer option, which gives you extensive combinations of variable and interval reminders.
The [...]

Digital Age and Digital Times. Our sense of clocking time too has gone digital, so much that the word Analog looks like distant history. For some vintage feel though, you could fall back on an innovation in analog clocks that would give you some food for thought, rather, work your brain a little.
Between June and [...]

Lately, people seem to have been disillusioned with gadgets loaded with features and specifications. So what could you expect at a time like this but a minimalist clock! Art Lebedev has created the Word Clock that breaks the conventional mode of reading time. It literally reads time in phrases and not in numbers.
Numbers can sometimes [...]