In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and basic industry. They found so many interesting ones along the way that ...

The result is 300 groundbreaking inventions (and 100 special mention inventions )—including an AI detector for teachers, a ...

Welcome to TIME’s annual round-up of the best inventions making the world better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.