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From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper — here are TIME's picks for the top innovations of 2008

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1. The Retail DNA Test

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2. The Tesla Roadster

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3. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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4. Hulu.com

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5. The Large Hadron Collider

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6. The Global Seed Vault

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7. The Chevy Volt

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8. Bullets That Shoot Bullets

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9. The Orbital Internet

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10. The World's Fastest Computer

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11. Green Crude

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12. Housing Funds

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13. The Memristor

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14. The Bionic Hand

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15. The Direct-to-Web Supervillain Musical

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16. The Dynamic Tower

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17. The Mobile, Dexterous, Social Robot

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18. The New Mars Rover

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19. Montreal's Public Bike System

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20. The Everything Game

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21. The Synthetic Organism

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22. The Shadowless Skyscraper

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23. The Branded Candidate

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24. Bionic Contacts

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25. Thin-Film Solar Panels

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26. The Speedo LZR Racer

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27. Bubble Photography

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28. The Invisibility Cloak

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30. The Internet Of Things

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33. Biomechanical Energy Harvester

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34. Made-in-Transit Packaging