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5 Cool Inventions from TIME’s New ’50 Best Inventions’ Issue

Hitting newsstands shortly, TIME's "50 Best Inventions" issue spotlights some of the most amazing new ideas and innovations from the past year. If you're a TIME subscriber, you can already see the article online right here. Of course, many of the inventions highlighted are infused with a heaping helping of technology and, as such, have made appearances here on Techland over the course of the year. Here's a look at five of them from the 50 that made the cut.

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3D Processors

By Nov. 17, 2011
Intel

From Avatar‘s tawny-eyed, blue-skinned aliens to high-def Blu-ray movies to Nintendo’s totable 3DS, everyone’s hip to 3D, and the latest company to hop onboard looks to be–wait a second, Intel?

Yep, Intel, as in Intel 3D microprocessors. No, you won’t need dorky glasses to run your next computer, but using sophisticated 3D assembly tricks, Intel announced it’s found a pretty cool new way to reduce size and power requirements in upcoming batches of CPUs.

Read more: Intel Trades Over 50 Years of Chip Design for ’3D’ Processors

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