Innovators Videos

Lit Motors CEO Daniel Kim wants to reinvent the motorcycle as we know it today. His idea? To design and manufacture a fully enclosed, two-wheeled motorcycle that runs purely on electric....

12 | September 12, 2011 7:20am

Steve Zornetzer, associate director of NASA Ames Research Center, talks about the space agency's plan to design eco-friendly buildings on earth using technologies developed for space exploration....

August 29, 2011 3:32pm

In order to perform surgery on children, doctors often have to jury-rig adult instruments to fit their needs. But Pablo Garcia, a principal engineer at SRI International is working to solve this...

1 | August 8, 2011 7:02am

New material developed by MIT and Harvard researchers could help millions of people with vocal disorders. The team has altered polyethylene glycol to create a synthetic substance that mimics the...

2 | July 15, 2011 4:23pm

Andre Anders, a senior scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, leads the team that develops technology for "smart" windows. The window glass lets more or less light into a building...

2 | July 5, 2011 5:31am

At NASA Ames Research Park, scientist Peter Wasowski has developed an alternative exercise machine called Vasper. The user wears compression cuffs on the arms and legs and core-cooling panels on...

7 | June 13, 2011 3:41pm

Pei Zhang, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is working on a mobile-sensor network that could send swarms of tiny helicopters into a building. The robotic helicopters are equipped with...

8 | May 26, 2011 8:13am

At NASA Ames Research Center, space scientist Farid Salama is taking data collected from their Cassini mission to Saturn's moon Titan and recreating the conditions here on Earth in NASA's...

4 | May 9, 2011 12:00am

Robert Ritchie, a professor of material science at U.C. Berkeley, has created metallic glass, a material he believes is the strongest and toughest to date. At the school's lab, Ritchie and his...

17 | March 17, 2011 8:24am

SmartPlanet takes a peek inside Tesla Motors' R&D lab and talks to CTO JB Straubel about the evolution of the electric vehicle and the technology behind the company's lithium ion battery pack.

3 | February 22, 2011 8:57am

According to analyst estimates, by 2020 the LED lighting industry will be close to a $25 billion market worldwide. LED lighting manufacturer Bridgelux wants to be on the forefront of this shift....

14 | February 3, 2011 12:56pm

As a life support engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, it's Michael Flynn's job to keep astronauts alive in space, making sure they have the basic necessities like clean water to survive. But...

15 | January 13, 2011 8:20am

When, NASA's satellite for monitoring climate change from space--ICESat-1--ceased operations in February 2010, the agency drew up a new plan: Operation Ice Bridge. The mission is to use NASA DC-8...

25 | November 29, 2010 3:32pm

Meng Lean, a principal scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, is developing a new method to purify waste water. Using the flowing motion of water and centrifugal force, a portable device uses...

3 | November 22, 2010 4:59pm

Through a technique called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), University of California neuroscientist, Flavio Oliveira is researching how decisions are made by studying which hand a person...

2 | November 15, 2010 4:12pm