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Nearly three dozen Bay Area companies have been named in Time Magazine's list of the 200 "best inventions" of the year.
They span across industries including sustainability, artificial intelligence, consumer hardware, fitness, energy, health, pet care, productivity, robotics and automotive.
Some of the companies may be familiar names, such as Lucid Motors, HP, Nvidia, OpenAI and ThredUp. Others like Zipline, Sila Nanotechnologies and Biotricity are less known.
Here are the 34 local companies that made the magazine's list of the year's best 200 inventions:
- Aclima (S.F.) for its air quality monitoring system
- Actual (Oakland) for its ESG Transformation platform for sustainability modeling
- Aeva (Mountain View) for its Aeries II sensors for autonomous vehicles
- Astranis (S.F.) for its MicroGEO satellites for broadband internet
- Bellabeat (S.F.) for its Ivy wearable for women
- Biotricity (Redwood City) for its Bioheart
- Climate AI (S.F.) for its forecasting tool for agriculture
- Dutch (Oakland) for its veterinary telehealth service
- Epic Cleantech (S.F.) for its OneWater wastewater treatment and recycling system
- Gatik (Mountain View) for its driverless box trucks
- Gradient (S.F.) for its air conditioner powered by a heat pump
- Grail (Menlo Park) for its Galleri cancer test
- Gridware (Walnut Creek) for its powerline monitoring system
- HP (Palo Alto) for its Presence line of remote and collaborative work devices
- Kav Sports (Palo Alto) for its Portola 3D-printed helmets
- LARQ (Foster City) for its portable filtration system in a reusable water bottle
- Light Field Lab (San Jose) for its SolidLight holographic technology
- Loose Cannon Systems Inc. (Mill Valley) for its Milo communication device
- Lucid Motors (Newark) for its Lucid Air model
- Lumio (S.F.) for its Teno speaker and lamp
- Nvidia (Santa Clara) for its Instant NeRF for 3D rendering
- Oasense (Mountain View) for its Reva water saving showerhead
- Open AI (S.F.) for DALL-E 2
- Phantom Auto (South San Francisco) for its forklift teleoperation software
- Scale AI (S.F.) for its automated damage identification system via satellite imagery
- Sila Nanotechnologies (Alameda) for its silicon powder for battery anodes
- Tempo (S.F.) for its Move smart home fitness system
- ThredUp (Oakland) for its Thrift the Look tool
- Twelve (Berkeley) for its carbon capture and manufacturing technology
- Urban Footprint (Berkeley) for its grid resilience analytics
- Viture (S.F.) for its One smart glasses
- Watershed (S.F.) for its carbon tracking platform
- You.com (Palo Alto) for its ad-free search engine results
- Zipline (South San Francisco) for its drone delivery system
Three other local companies were also given special mentions:
- Osso VR (S.F.) for its surgical training program
- Arlo (San Jose) for its Go 2 security system
- Volta Charging (S.F.) for its Predict EV forecasting tool
