Ever Widening Circles
17 minutes
OK Go: How to FIND a Great Idea, Not THINK of One!
OK Go – arguably the most wildly creative force in music videos – can teach us all a lot about getting to our next great idea. Turns out most of us have been going about things backward!
Design
12 minutes
Way Beyond the Swan: Here’s Origami in Space!
Here’s what happens when we apply the Mathematics of Origami, complex folding, to engineering and space!
5 minutes
This Tree Can Grow 40 Different Fruits!
Today on EWC we take a look at a pretty funky topic: Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruits! This tree grows not one, but 40 different fruits! How amazing! But how could this be? Read more to find out!
13 minutes
Pollen as a Micro-Wonder of the World!
Let’s go beyond the misery of hay-fever and understand the extraordinary beauty, complexity and wonder of one of Mother Nature’s most ingenious designs: Pollen!
8 minutes
Could we live in houses that breathe?
Sounds a little crazy, doesn’t it? Let’s rethink what a building can do by following one architect on a journey to create eco-conscious additions that’ll breathe with the world.
9 minutes
The Fibonacci Sequence Explains Nature’s Spirals
The wonder of spirals can be found throughout the natural world. It turns out that Mother Nature uses some fascinating mathematics in these designs!
11 minutes
The Ties That Bind Us: Do shoes reveal what we value?
Shoes may seem like a utilitarian necessity or a fashion statement, but what if they connect us all in pointing to what we value?
13 minutes
What do pirates, nurses, and Buckminster Fuller have in common?
What do pirates, nurses, and Buckminster Fuller have in common? They are the rebel designers of history who show us what the future of design may start to look like!
7 minutes
Fungi, the Technology of the Future?
Imagine a future filled with bricks, furniture, and leather made of mushrooms! That fungi-filled future is here and it’s the kind of innovation that needs celebrating!
9 minutes
The Playful History of Innovation
How is the flute the great-grandfather of the computer? Here’s a look at the playful history of innovation to give you a little perspective for the future!
14 minutes
Engineering the Tallest Building in the World
Ever look up at a skyscraper, sparkling in the night sky and wonder, “How did they do that?” Here’s a great look at one major challenge in the tallest building in the world!
17 minutes
Alpha Jetman Blows the Doors of Possibility Wide Open
Sometimes we need an eccentric person with a crazy idea to push back the edge of possibility for us all! Take a look at a wonder in innovation you will not believe!
16 minutes
The Message In Fun Optical Illusions
Optical illusions are always fun, and those you can do in your own home are even better. Here’s what they can teach us about perspective!
8 minutes
A Pyramid Primer: How much do you really know?
Most of us think we know a fair amount about things like the pyramids. But do we? What if our information still dates from magazines in elementary school, and we only have the gist of things? Here’s something to consider.
12 minutes
The Unseen Art of the Foley Masters
Meet the masters of sound who bring or favorite movies to life! For the Foley artist, film is their canvas and everything from plungers to paperclips their paint and brushes!
5 minutes
What Can A Thousand Swarming Robots Teach us About Nature?
How do fish swim in schools, or birds fly in giant flocks without running into each other? Take a look at the tiny swarming robots that are helping us understand some of nature’s most complex phenomena!
15 minutes
Hype Aside: What are our real energy options?
Do you feel us edging away from fossil fuels? If we look where innovation is moving, it’s not in coal, oil and gas. No the creative thought leaders and clever young innovators are moving on. See where they are taking us!
9 minutes
The Martian and Understanding Movie Music with Wonder
Here’s a window into a world that most of us have been exposed to hundreds of times, but would take for granted unless we had a great teacher to educate us. I’ll never listen to a movie score the same again!
16 minutes
The Ingenious Music of the Marble Machine
What happens when you combine the musical power of a one-man band, the whimsy of a Rube Goldberg machine, and the power of 2000 marbles? Meet the Marble Machine, an instrument and a band all in one!
8 minutes
Murals on Mountainsides
Simon Beck creates breathtaking mountainside murals in freshly fallen snow. His work is a remarkable example of the magic that can happen when nature and art combine!
11 minutes
Hexaflexagon Wonder to Flex Mex Recipe
Do you remember the wonder of a particular paper folding trick where it seemed a new color surfaced with every refold, even though the hexagon was only 2-sided? Here’s a whole new take on that!
8 minutes
Maps, A Distorted Look At Our World
How do we take our 3D globe and turn in into a flat map? Well, you really can’t, here’s how distorted maps of our world are shaping our perspective and what we can–maybe–do about it!
18 minutes
MakerNurse Bringing Innovation to the Bedside
What happens when you put the tools for innovation into the hands of nurses? You get MakerNurse, and incredible project changing the future of patient care!
12 minutes
Innovators to the End: Mushroom Burial Suits!
Ingenious people are always the ones dragging culture forward. It is time to start innovating when it comes to death. How about a mushroom burial suit!
12 minutes
Re-Imagining School Lunch: Absolutely Fascinating Fun!
Innovation is at its very best when it involves things we take completely for granted. Take School Lunches for example: now here are some remarkable, delightful and incredibly obvious insights that North Americans have almost completely missed!
10 minutes
The Wild Potential of Embracing Our Limitations
What if embraced our limitations? What possibilities might we discover if we just owned them and let them force us to get creative. We might actually find possibilities we would never have discovered. Take a look at how remarkable this mindset can be!
21 minutes
Small Colored Bricks (Legos) and BIG Art
Here’s how life can work out when you follow your passions and think big!
13 minutes
Driverless Cars: How Our Bodies Can Inspire the Future
Are driverless cars and other forms of futuristic transportation a far-off dream? It turns out that our own bodies can provide a little inspiration to turn science fiction into reality!
25 minutes
Building Futures with Half a House
What happens when you are forced to think creativity in the face of scarcity? This is a story of innovation that speaks something much larger in us all!