A closeup portrait of Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations. Contributor The man largely credited with inventing marketplace capitalism, Adam Smith, lived at home with his mother. While he wrote ...

Peel-and-stick office sensor recognized as TIME Best Invention for 2025 Logitech Spot tracks room usage and office health for smarter workplace decisions Radar-based device helps companies minimize ...

The greatest invention of all time isn't, as is sometimes argued, penicillin. Nor is it the computer. Nor is it running water, electricity, the automobile, or the airplane. Rather, it's the thing that ...

SPOKANE -- Luke Williams, who with his brother invented the alternating time and temperature sign common on office buildings throughout the world, died yesterday in a Spokane nursing home, his wife ...

Toast is pretty much the greatest thing to happen since—and to—sliced bread. There’s nothing more satisfying than sticking a piece or two between the metal grates, sliding down the lever and watching ...

“Five lords always dined at a small round table. Lord Ha sat next to Lord Hi and Lord Ho. Lord Haw sat next to Lord Hwlk (pronounced How) and Lord Hi. Which two sat next to Lord Hwlk?” “Tom is twice ...

“Time is a system we should be able to reuse and view in a permanent sort of way, vs. this temporary gross calendar we all hate,” The New Calendar founder Tom Sherman said. Yes, he’s serious. The New ...

The 1975 prototype of the first digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson for Kodak(Courtesy Steven Sasson) If you told a teenager today that snapping a photograph used to require buying film in ...

Time Magazine's love affair with Apple is very well documented. This week, they named the iPhone the "Invention of the Year." The winning combination: The industrial design, touchscreen, the effect on ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Coloradans have a unique chance to get one of Time magazine’s best inventions of 2024, a glow-in-the-dark petunia, at an event in Centennial this weekend. Light Bio’s Firefly Petunia ...