Every year brings new technological innovations to market, with some turning into hits while others flame out. The top inventions this year are in categories including consumer electronics, ...

There’s something freeing about controlling objects with your voice. When you say, “Open can,” simplehuman’s Sensor Can with voice and motion control opens, then slowly closes a few seconds later.

Several years ago, B’zT founder Kiyeon Nam had what she recalls as a terrifying experience: she briefly lost her then 3-year-old daughter in a mall. The incident spurred Nam to research ...