Inverse - 🏆 The 2022 Inverse Awards

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Dec 12 2022

Since 2015, INVERSE has explored the science of anything, the technologies that influence our lives today and shape our tomorrow, and the ideas, games, and entertainment that stretch our minds. We like to think of ourselves as enthusiasts: We’re not blind to the flaws and issues in the areas was cover, but we are insatiably curious about how innovation, science, gaming, and entertainment continue to evolve and change how we think of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit — whether real or imagined.

It is in that same spirit that we bring you the 2022 edition of the INVERSE Awards. These prizes are awarded based on our deep knowledge of the subjects we write about and our boundless enthusiasm for the artistry, inventiveness, utility, and awe-inspiring nature of our awardees.

Throughout December, we present our picks of the best of the best TV, movies, games, gear, and scientific breakthroughs — as well as a few more notable honors, exclusive interviews, deeply reported features, and jaw-dropping images.

You might not agree with all of our choices, and that’s ok! But one thing we hope to share with you is a sense of why each of our awardees deserves your attention — and what they tell us about the future of entertainment, gaming, science, and technology.

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INVERSE AWARDS

Year in review

Welcome to The 2022 Inverse Awards

The INVERSE Awards celebrate the best of 2022 in entertainment, gaming, gear, and innovation with a cavalcade of interviews, profiles, best-of lists, reported features, and more.

Bookmark this hub for new stories added daily throughout December. And thank you for reading INVERSE in 2022! We look forward to exploring the universe with you in 2023 — and beyond.

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INVERSE AWARDS

Gear

The 9 best smartphones of 2022

The next big thing in tech might be smart glasses, a stretchable display, or whatever Humane is teasing for 2023. But one thing is certain: Smartphones aren’t going anywhere for a while.

Sure, our big glass slabs have basically reached their apex. There aren’t as many groundbreaking features these days, and for the most part, each new phone offers improvements on the basics — but that doesn’t mean the latest smartphones have nothing compelling to offer. They absolutely do.

Apple, Samsung, and Google all came out swinging for the fences with what we might argue is their very best smartphones in 2022. Newcomers like Nothing made a real splash, too. These phones all connect you to the world and capture your memories in stunning image quality. So here are the nine best phones of 2022, according to the Inverse editors.

Space

Science

Artemis I returns safely to Earth

The first leg of NASA’s new ambitious moon program is officially over after an Orion capsule splashed down off the coast of Isla Guadalupe, Mexico.

The capsule was part of the Artemis I mission, which saw the largest rocket NASA has ever built carry a crew of dummies, sensors, and other equipment back. The success of the mission sets the stage for NASA’s future lunar ambitions, which include a space station and a sustained human lunar presence.

The success of the Artemis I mission sets the path forward for the program. Artemis II is tentatively scheduled to fly sometime in 2024, while Artemis III will fly the subsequent year. While Artemis II will carry humans around the Moon, Artemis III will actually see human boots on lunar soil again for the first time since 1972, when Apollo 17 left the Taurus-Littrow region and returned to Earth.

Space

Science

What ESA's "parastronaut" program means for disability in space

Not quite two years after Hayley Arceneaux became the first person with a prosthetic body part in space, the European Space Agency has launched a “Parastronaut Feasibility Program,” and future astronaut corps may include people with disabilities.

Surgeon and Paralympic runner John McFall will spend the next several years working with engineers at the European Astronaut Center, figuring out how to adapt spacecraft design to accommodate crew members with amputations or other disabilities.

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Gaming

Cameron Monaghan reveals Cal's "terrifying" fear in Jedi Survivor

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the sequel to EA’s 2019 game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, finds our hero Cal Kestis in unenviable circumstances. Five years after the events of the first game, the rogue Jedi is on the run from the Galactic Empire, and the plucky resolve we saw from him in the first game is wavering a bit.

“Cal has has grown a bit more world-weary, he has a bit of a darker outlook and edge to him,” Cameron Monaghan, who plays Cal in both games, tells Inverse. “His cause is becoming seemingly more and more hopeless with each day passing. So he's trying to fight against it in any way he can. But how do you fight something that is so large and overpowering?”

Meanwhile...

DNA study reveals how a mysterious, extinct human shaped our immune systems

Oldest cooked food ever found upends the "Paleo" theory of ancient human diets

Camaro’s electric future could include crossovers and SUVs

13 years ago, James Cameron made a sci-fi epic ahead of its time — that looks terrible today

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