Time Magazine this week released its annual “Best Inventions” list and, as usual, it presents a peculiar blend of the awe-inspiring, the “wait, didn’t we already have that?” and the “what were they thinking?”

How many of these will matter to the average consumer? Spoiler alert: the answer is complicated...

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