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Can Prosthetics Outperform Real Limbs? - Wired.com

MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains to Wired.com how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.

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Mouse Trap Still Works After 150 Years

A museum in Reading, England found an unwelcome guest in an artifact designed to kill.

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Video Lecture: Race, Class, and Hydroelectricity in Progressive Era Georgia

Casey Cater, Lemelson Center Fellow and Ph.D. candidate at Georgia State, discusses how electric energy was marketed and sold in the post-war south.

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Celebrating Kid Inventors

Berkshire Museum, a Spark!Lab National Network member, on kid inventors and the 5th annual Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge.

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From Cars to Guitars—The "Fender" Crossover

In 1960, custom colors for Fender electric guitars were standardized. For the most part, Fender used automotive paint from DuPont. John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles owned Fender Stratocasters painted in “Sonic Blue,” one of the colors available on the 1956 Cadillac.

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Mini Robot Swarms Could be the Future of Exploring Mars

At the 2015 IdeaFestival, Google engineer (and Lemelson Center Advisory Board Member) Dr. James McLurkin shared his research on swarm robotics and how he believes they could be the future of space exploration, disaster rescue, and more.

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Video Lecture: Before the Garage: Beginnings of Silicon Valley, 1909–1960

Stephen Adams, Lemelson Center Fellow and Professor at Salisbury University examines the origins of the Silicon Valley as we know it today.

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Video Lecture: Intellectual Property and Hobby Software in the 1970s

Gerardo Con Diaz, Lemelson Center Fellow and PhD. candidate at Yale University, discusses his dissertation, "Intellectual Property and Hobby Software in the 1970s."

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Lecture: Wear a Hat to Keep Your Feet Warm, and Other Lessons from the Science of Dressing for Extreme Weather During World War II

Lemelson Center Fellow Rachel Gross, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses how Americans paradoxically invented and relied upon all kinds of high-tech inventions to escape the modern world and get “back to nature.”

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"How a Place Matters"

"How a Place Matters," a documentary produced by Rocky Mountain PBS and Colorado State University, takes an in-depth look at what makes Fort Collins an important place of invention.

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History of Wi-Fi

Get to your nearest hotspot and geek out on this interactive timeline on the history of wi-fi.

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Innoskate 2015

Dude, "The Boardr" did an awesome recap of the Lemelson Center's Innoskate program in Greenville, South Carolina, produced in collaboration with the Children's Museum of the Upstate.

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Inspiring Invention the MacGyver Way

Like the legendary television character of MacGyver, visitors to Spark!Lab are challenged to solve problems with ingenuity, a pile of off-the-shelf items, and the tools to get the job done. From Smithsonian.com.

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The Color Revolution

Lecture delivered by Dr. Regina Blaszcyk at the Hagley Museum and Library on September 12, 2013 about the relationship between color and commerce in American history. The lecture covered the role of professional “color forecasters” and “color engineers” who helped major corporations bridge the gap between color and enterprise. Then and now, professional colorists use psychology and illusion to capture the hearts—and dollars—of consumers.

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Kinetic Wave Sculptures

Ruben Margolin is an incredible artist who creates beautifully fluid kinetic wave sculptures.

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RIDE Channel at Innoskate

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Video: From Child Scientist to Playful Inventor

What does children’s play have to do with the work of serious scientists?

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Video: Play to the Future

Is the quality and quantity of children’s play changing? How do new electronic and digital technologies affect children at play? How can new technologies provide rich motor and sensory experiences? If play is changing, how will that affect invention?

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