If you take a look at this list, you may conclude that consumer tech has stalled and innovation is less about big swings and moonshots and more about incremental updates to past form factors and ideas. You’d be right. But also wrong.

While it’s true that companies this year released products that played things safe, we’re on the cusp of some pretty seismic technology shifts. Generative AI started making its way into devices, and we’re not even close to scratching the surface of what it can do now versus two, five, or even 10 years from now. Gaming became more immersive, portable, and accessible than ever before thanks to more advanced headsets and the popularity of handheld PCs. And more companies committed to efforts for responsible and sustainable design.

2023 might not be as memorable as 2007 when the iPhone launched and changed everything (though few products will ever reach that status), but it won’t be remembered as totally lackluster for tech releases, either. Here’s Inverse’s list of the best tech released this calendar year, based on how much impact we think each product had.

A good franchise needs to be built on good source material. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has Marvel Comics, contemporary Star Wars has the original films and non-canon books and comics... and Percy Jackson and the Olympians has the books by Rick Riordan.

The series, about an alternate America populated with creatures and characters from Greek mythology, is set to make a big splash on Disney+, which is apt for a story about the son of Poseidon.

Also apt is the choice of Dan Shotz and Jon Steinberg, both alumni of the hit pirate drama Black Sails, as showrunners. For them, Percy Jackson has the potential to be the start of a universe.