Popular Science magazine has announced the winners of the 2009 Best of What's New Awards, an annual accolade honoring the top 100 technologies in 11 categories, including one Innovation of the Year winner and 11 Grand Award winners, one from each category. All are featured in the magazine's December issue.
"Best of What's New is about finding innovations that simply blow us away, pushing us past what we thought was possible," says Mark Jannot, editor in chief of Popular Science. "This year's winners represent incredible breakthroughs both simple and complex-from a stethoscope that looks ordinary but may save billions of dollars in medical testing, to wallpaper that can withstand the pressure of a bomb blast, to an extraordinary telescope that may answer the question of whether we're alone in the universe."
