From smart egg trays to Bluetooth toasters, explore 18 inventions from the last decade that prove some tech is just a bit too ...

Invented in the late 19th century as a means to contain cattle in the American West, barbed wire soon found military applications. Bettmann / Corbis Bayonet: In the early 17th century, sportsmen in ...

The Roaring Twenties didn't just roar with jazz, flappers, and speakeasies—it hummed with the sound of innovation. As America emerged from World War I, the decade ushered in unprecedented economic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Per the USPTO, Americans were "benefitting from a post-World War II economic boom" in the 1960s and a workforce that "grew by ...

Whenever innovation and creativity combine forces, brilliant inventions tend to follow suit. Each decade has its own set of unique technological advances that were known for either making life easier ...