WHAT'S INSIDE chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 GIZMOS GADGETS 8 NATURE KNOWS BEST 52 HAVE A BALL 88 Powered Up 3 D Printers 10 Super Stickers Gecko Inspired Adhesives 54 Party Prankster Trick Candles 90 Power Play Penguin Inspired Propulsion 60 Lightning Under Glass Plasma Ball 96 Scope It Out Telescopes and Microscopes 16 Meet an Inventor Lonnie Johnson 100 Get a Grip Sticky Toys 102 Tales From the Lab Origami Inspired Designing a Microscope for the Masses 22 Tales From the Lab Bird Brained Solving the Shinkansen Bullet Train's Problem 64 Perpetually Parched Drinking Bird 106 Constant Contact Cell Phones 24 Awesome Armor Shark Inspired Coatings 66 It's Groovy Baby Liquid Motion Lamp 112 Picture Perfect Cameras 30 Meet a Materials Scientist Joanna Aizenberg 72 Tales From the Lab Great Goo The Accidental Invention of Silly Putty 116 Meet a Robotics Engineer Ayanna Howard 36 Holding Fast Burr Inspired Fasteners 74 Helping Hands Kitchen Gadgets 38 Cool Coils Walking Spring Toy 118 Coach Fitness Trackers 42 Something's Fishy Fish Inspired Wind Turbine Farms 80 Try This A Green Thumbs Up Make and Grow Your Own Flora Friend 122 Try This Camera Magic Make a Pinhole Viewer Your Own Sun Prints 48 Try This Flower Power Make Something Inspired by Nature 86
chapter 4 chapter 5 back matter BETTER BUILDING 124 EVEN MORE 196 EASY STREET 162 Look Mom No Hands Self Driving Cars 164 Don't Look Down Skyscrapers 126 Glossary 196 Bibliography 198 Find Out More 200 Tales From the Lab Seeing in a New Light Transforming Shipping Pallets Into Shelters 132 Index 202 Credits 206 New From Old Recycled Buildings 134 Meet an Engineer José Luis Hernández Rebollar 170 Acknowledgments 208 Super Spans Bridges 140 Wiser Gut Size Guy Wise Guy Autocorrect 172 Cutting Edge Green Buildings 146 Meet an Innovator Arthur Huang 152 Money on the Move Secret Codes in Credit Cards ATMs Virtual Wallets 176 Going Under Tunnels 154 Tales From the Lab Breakthrough Inventing the Automatic Dishwasher 182 Try This On a Roll Engineer a Strong Structure 160 At Your Service Digital Assistants 184 Revolutionary Ride Segway 188 Try This Life Hacks Take a Shortcut to Easy Street 194
GIZMOS GADGETS
OOOH HOW WE LOVE OUR TOYS And let's face it our gizmos and gadgets are basically fancy toys whether they are ingenious mechanical tools or novel elec tronic devices Sure we can point out a bajillion ways they save us time make it easier to do things or help us be better people Of course they do We couldn't live without them But when it comes down to it we love our gizmos and gadgets because they're just plain awesome
