Sun, Nov 13, 2011
A 'cyber-illusionist' (magician/performance artist) who combines video, computer graphics and other technology of the moment with the ideas and technology of magic. He stars in the television series "The Virtual Magician."
Sun, Nov 20, 2011
A former NYC cab driver turned self-taught perfumer and founder of CB I hate Perfume, now based in Brooklyn, New York. His award-winning scents include "In the Library," "Burning Maple Leaves," and "Snow."
Sun, Nov 27, 2011
A chef, inventor, entrepreneur, and molecular gastronomist. He owns iNG, Cantu Designs, and Moto in Chicago, known for its use of 'high-tech' food created with edible paper, centifuges, lasers, and liquid nitrogen.
Sun, Dec 4, 2011
A 'social' roboticist who analyzes how people relate to technology by creating robots that can interact with humans. Her robot, named Data, is a comedian with whom she performs a stand-up routine.
Mon, Dec 12, 2011
A former troubled-teen turned artist and toy designer, who creates both street murals and designs for brands like Dell and Puma. Also the founder of Thunderdog Studios, a creative agency and toy brand based in New York City.
Sun, Dec 18, 2011
An interactive artist who uses walls, floors, and ceilings as interactive canvases. He is the founder of Snibbe Interactive and Scott Snibbe studio and has also created music applications that deliver full, all-sensory music experience.
Sun, Jan 15, 2012
A Hawaii-born ukulele virtuoso who is re-defining conventional ideas about his instrument through his eclectic approach to sound.
Sun, Jan 22, 2012
A Danish architect who views his work as a way of contributing to society, re-imagining the future, and creating possibilities for human life. He believes in 'pragmatic Utopian architecture' and heads the Bjarke Ingels Group.
Sun, Jan 29, 2012
A 4th generation silversmith and scholar who uses centuries old practices to create unparalleled works of art. A 2011 recipient of the MacArthur Grant who advocates appreciation of hand-crafted objects in a world filled with technology.
Sun, Feb 19, 2012
A founder of MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire who believes that everyone has the potential to make things that improve our world. He is passionate about fostering a new generation of 'makers' who are creative, innovative, and curious.
Sun, Feb 26, 2012
A designer and founder of Fuseproject. His work includes the wireless speaker Jambox and the laptop for One Laptop Per Child. He spends nearly 1/3 of his time on non-profit work, believing that great design should be accessible to everyone.
Sun, Mar 4, 2012
A social-entrepreneur who rose from poverty and established a thriving community health care system, the Matibabu Foundation, in his native Kenya. He believes that health is integral to prosperity and the realization of potential.
Sun, Mar 11, 2012
Using technology, art, and science, they create extraordinary art, commercials and videos that look practically impossible to execute. Currently headed by Adam Sadowsky, the group is responsible for OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" video.
Sun, Mar 18, 2012
A nonprofit school founded by the Blue Man Group and their wives in 2006. The school employs a "co-constructive approach" in which the students have a hand in directing and developing their own curriculum through inquiry and exploration.
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
Engineer, rock climber, and biophysicist who designed special prostheses after he lost his legs. He is the head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab and is the holder of more than 10 patents in rehabilitation science.
Sun, Apr 1, 2012
A medical device designer for MIT's Little Devices lab, which uses toy parts to create medical devices for developing countries. Interested in creating prototyping approaches to health, he creates DIY medical kits for doctors in the field.
Sun, Apr 8, 2012
A community for people who create languages. Language users use their own experience to encode life as they see it.
Sun, Apr 15, 2012
World-renown game designer who insists playing games for an hour a day can change your life. Gaming, Jane says, produces powerful emotions and social relationships that can really change lives, and potentially even change the world. Scientists call it "game transfer" phenomenon: what we think and feel in games starts to spill over into our real lives.
Sun, Apr 29, 2012
Co-host of the WNYC Radio show called Radiolab. "Radio host" may not be the best title for Abumrad. He's an aural filmmaker rapidly changing the way we understand the world.
Sun, May 6, 2012
The creator of Quirky.com, a start-up website that gives would-be inventors a place to go with their ideas. He is shaking up the way consumer products get to store shelves, giving people the power to choose what they buy.
Sun, May 13, 2012
Urban beekeeper and activist. From the heights of New York's most luxurious hotels to the far reaches of the African bush, Coté is spreading his fascination with bees to people throughout the world.
Sun, May 27, 2012
She has been dubbed the "real-life Indiana Jones," but prefers to be called a "space archaeologist." From her lab at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Parcak analyzes infrared satellite imagery to map cities believed gone forever.
Sun, Jun 10, 2012
The youngest person in the world to build a nuclear fusion reactor. He has also created a device that sniffs out nuclear material in cargo containers and is helping change the way we diagnose and treat cancer.
Sun, Jun 17, 2012
A talented and nontraditional musician who is reinventing the organ and bringing it into the digital age through the creation of his own traveling organ that can go wherever he does.
Sun, Jul 1, 2012
A revolutionary teacher who started Philadelphia's "Sustainability Workshop," a program for inner-city high school seniors that's organized around projects rather than traditional curriculum. Students built electric go-karts solar charging stations, and design energy-efficiency business plans.
Sun, Jul 8, 2012
An engineer and artist who created littleBits, a pre-engineered electronic module that snaps together with tiny magnets to create different kinds of displays. Using littleBits, which have been called "the next-generation Lego," she aim to change the way kids learn about science, engineering and basic circuits.