How We Picked the Best Inventions of 2024
Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIMEβs Best Inventions issue. To compile this yearβs list, we solicited nominations from TIMEβs editors and correspondents around the world, and through an online application process, paying special attention to growing fieldsβsuch as health care, AI, and green energy. We then evaluated each contender on a number of key factors, including originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact.
The result is a list of 200 groundbreaking inventions (and 50 special mention inventions)βincluding the worldβs largest computer chip, a humanoid robot joining the workforce, and a bioluminescent houseplantβthat are changing how we live, work, play, and think about whatβs possible.
Read the full list here.