Will Wright, creator of the Sims, demonstrates his most ambitious video game ever - Spore - which uses a cross between intelligent-design and evolution to dominate the universe.
ary takes the most remarkable Schlieren photographs and movies in the world. He uses his refined techniques to understand everything from how a dog's nose sniffs to airplane shockwaves to terrorist's explosives.
Sabuda & Reinhart make gorgeous and intelligent popup books that seem to defy the laws of physics. They talk about the low-tech approach they use to get their stunning results.
Creating a new, high-speed electric car requires breaking a few eggs, actually, a few cars. Martin explains the testing required for building his amazing driving machines.
Growing old is something that Aubrey is trying to do away with. Here he touches on the philosophical and cultural impediments to focusing on and halting aging.
Idealab has been busy thinking up new products and cofounder Howard Morgan shows us the new Aptera Motors 3 wheel car, steered mirrors helping generate solar power and the Desktop Factory inexpensive 3d printer.
Change is for the birds. Here, Josh takes this idea literally and trains crows to collect coins. Don't laugh just yet, over $200 million in coins are lost each year in America alone. Okay, laugh yourself silly all the way to the bank.
Peter takes us on a photographic tour of the world and a look at what various families eat each day. He also goes on a side trip looking for and sampling yummy, tasty insects.
Michael takes on a tour de force of the intensely creative world of human/machine/machin e interaction done by himself and his business partner Will Wright. Don't miss the robot that has fallen and can't get up.
What happens when you take a high-powered projector, a laser, a camera, a computer and a bicycle and add them together? You get "LaserTag", a neat way of projecting graffiti onto walls
James also explains "Fameo" - grades for an internet design course based on internet popularity.
John and his brothers embarked on a quest to find their father's lost submarine from World War II. After a huge amount of research and searching the ocean floor, John shows what he found.
The father of vehicular robotics explains the DARPA Urban Challenge, how to crawl through caves and what his robot for exploring the moon might look like.
Chuck has the amazing ability of taking everyday objects and re-conceiving them so they fold up in unique ways. He reinvents the wheel, the box and even the presentation screen itself.
Juan runs through new bio-technology like searching exhalations for DNA signatures of illness, operating on organs outside of the body and programmable cells to solve the worlds energy needs.
John and his brothers embarked on a quest to find their father's lost submarine from World War II. After a huge amount of research and searching the ocean floor, John shows what he found.
Did the universe emerge from a big bang or from a cyclic collision of two parallel universes? Paul hints that the later is more likely in his rapid summation of cosmic theories.
Joy Hirsch, a leading FMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) researcher, takes a look into Dan Dubno's brain to see what it looks like when he thinks about Gadgetoff.
Cameras take pictures of light, so what makes Steve's cameras so special? His cameras are so fast they can actually photograph light moving over objects. He can even construct 3D images from a single point.
While running MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms, Neil realized that fabricating things has become cheaper and easier. Neil talks about the FabLab project that distributes sophisticated fabrication machinery to the technology underserved.
