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Sound - you don’t think much about it, but futurists and entrepreneurs do. Host Chuck Pell catches up with two college-age inventors who’ve created a fire extinguisher that puts out fires---with sound waves. Also witness a sound cloaking device!
High tech is revolutionizing the way kids learn AND the way teachers teach. Host Chuck Pell gets deep in the ‘sandbox of the future’---and 3D topographical sandbox that allows young students to test earth science theories with their own hands in real time
Humans have always used their best technology to save lives, and new tech---and even some OLD tech---is now being employed by doctors the world over. Meet a designer who uses old car parts to help 3rd world doctors keep babies from getting juandice. Doctors and botanists have come together to GROW medicine. Host Chuck Pell visits a lab where vaccines are developed inside of plants and then processed into pills--a development that could save millions of lives in the developing world.
Green technology is radically changing the way people get around. Host Chuck Pell will take to the road in a hybrid between a solar powered car and an old fashioned tricycle-- that has no carbon footprint.
If you want to see some of the world’s most famous treasures you often have to travel thousands of miles. Now, as host Chuck Pell saw for himself, high tech is bringing fossils, artwork and historical artifacts to classrooms around the world.
A metal stronger than a speeding bullet, a robot that helps you with your bags at your hotel, a bike helmet helps urban planners map out future cities, and the mirror of the future has a memory.
Host Chuck Pell visits engineers who are adapting the air bags used in cars, to personal use, with the intent of eliminating severe injuries, such as broken hips.
Drones are being used to deliver medicine not only across town---but across your living room. And virtual reality is giving doctors a new view of the human body.
Humans have always been interested in the workings of planet Earth and high tech is giving them all sorts of new insights. Did you know that Earth's magnetic poles have shifted dozens of times during the planet's history? Host Chuck Pell visits scientists who've created a huge device that shows how this happens and predicts when it will happen again.
Movies and video games have been creating simulated environments for years but now the military is creating physical environments that simulate rain forests, deserts, combat situations, and even the surface of Mars. Host Chuck Pell goes to a lab where he's in a blistering desert one minute and a tropical rain forest the next---all in one building.
Environmental bad guys beware! Trees are now safer thanks to new satellite imagery giving us a view of our planet like we've never had before. We now know how many trees are on Earth and-almost in real-time--- can tell who's cutting them down. And host Chuck Pell samples a new kind of tree---one that's built in a lab and designed to stop global warming.
New sources of power are transforming people's lives, particularly in developing countries. Host Chuck Pell meets two young entrepreneurs who've invented a portable light that's virtually indestructible and runs on sunlight. And, believe it not, sewage is being used to create clean drinking water and electricity.
High tech is a serious business, but it's also fun and games. Host Chuck Pell gets in the virtual cockpit for a new kind of drone racing that's going international. He'll watch as robots compete in the world's most futuristic soccer match. And a new football 'dummy' isn't as dumb as he seems.
New tech is allowing all of us to become inventors. Welcome to the Maker Movement --- a worldwide phenomenon designed to get everyone making all sorts of strange and unusual gadgets. Host Chuck Pell visits a Makers Faire for some hands-on experience in how young and old alike are creating the future.
We don't often think about what things are made of, but the materials that go into our vehicles, homes, and appliances are undergoing a revolution. Host Chuck Pell will see how industrial diamonds are transforming manufacturing. He will experiment with a type of metal that gives new meaning to 'waterproof.' And he'll get in the lab with a brand of concrete that heals itself-just like human skin.
