Season 4

1. Luxury Tree Houses

Host Mo Rocca shows us the man making mansions in the trees; the innovator turning your smart phone into an underwater camera; making Mexico’s highways greener with vertical gardens; and, when the railroad world ditched steam for diesel.

2017-09-30 • 30 min

2. Inland Surf Park

Host Mo Rocca shows us an innovative surf park in the North Wales countryside; stopping police chases with a tire lasso; the watch for the blind getting popular with the sighted; and the speed of flight, from the Wright brothers to space.

2017-10-07 • 30 min

3. Globe Maker

Host Mo Rocca shows us the London innovator creating artistic globes of the world; the woman who took her grandmother’s tea recipe to make food last longer; the drone finding and clearing landmines from war-torn countries; and, the place where modern-day technology began.

2017-10-14 • 30 min

4. Gloving

Host Mo Rocca shows us the new art form of lighting your fingertips; inventing the alien rock grabber; earbuds that translate languages in real time; and, the history of roads connecting the country.

2017-10-21 • 30 min

5. Fog Catchers

Host Mo Rocca shows us the social worker who created a wireless phone-charging purse; reversing hidden hunger by enhancing food nutrition; the daddy of java, Mr. Coffee; and, turning fog into water.

2017-10-28 • 30 min

6. Origami Kayak

Host Mo Rocca shows us the fold-up kayak; the British inventor changing hair color with the wind; how Thomas Edison inadvertently invented the electric tattoo pen; and, the mesmerizing movements of the Strandbeest.

2017-11-04 • 30 min

7. Shoes That Grow

Host Mo Rocca shows us the art of the folding pop-up greeting cards; the inventor of shoes that grow along with the child’s foot; tents that are taking to the trees; and, how electricity first moved from the lab to the home.

2017-11-11 • 30 min

8. Floating Hammocks

Host Mo Rocca shows us the innovation of floating down a river on a hammock; the fingerprint padlock; looking back at the female pioneers of the sky; and, saving eyesight in Africa with a smartphone app.

2017-11-18 • 30 min

9. Peg Leg Crutch

Host Mo Rocca shows us the hands-free peg leg crutch for leg injuries; the latest inventions for pregnancy and babies; smelling the world with your phone; and, the reading book that taught our ancestors.

2018-01-13 • 30 min

10. Telehealth

Host Mo Rocca shows us the cargo carrier that follows you; the device that allows doctors to examine you from the other side of the world; a new spin on the old-world butter churn; and, when the car industry moved to muscle cars.

2018-01-20 • 30 min

11. Bat Hotel

Host Mo Rocca shows us the bat B&B keeping bugs at bay; the wristband saving electrical workers from shocking danger; the historic balloon reaching the stratosphere; and, the kinder, gentler horseshoe.

2018-01-27 • 30 min

12. United Kingdom Innovations

Host Mo Rocca shows us the latest innovations coming out of London and Wales, including an inland surfing park; hair coloring that changes with wind and temperature; earbuds that translate foreign languages in real time; and, Edison’s delivery room for the technology boom.

2018-02-03 • 30 min

13. 3D Printing Inventor

Host Mo Rocca shows us the underwater drone bringing bait to the fish; the inventor of 3D printing; updates on past innovators; and, how railroad signals changed train traffic.

2018-02-10 • 30 min

14. Sound Tunnels

Host Mo Rocca shows us tunnels of sound with directional speakers; how silver thread has put an end to smelly clothes; the first modern copying machine; and, an innovative manual clothes washer.

2018-02-17 • 30 min

15. Solar Grill

Host Mo Rocca shows us the fireless grill that cooks using heat from the sun; the sponge that can sop up ocean oil spills; the scuba diving tank you can pump up by hand; and, the innovator whose “car of tomorrow” failed to catch on.

2018-02-24 • 30 min

16. Food Huggers

Host Mo Rocca shows us the women who invented a new way to keep food fresh; the inventor of the self-cleaning gym bag; the newest way to travel with wheels on your feet; and, the designer who changed the world’s taste.

2018-03-03 • 30 min

17. Stress Wristbands

Host Mo Rocca shows us the wristband that relieves stress; a chair that makes you balance and sit up straight; the personal air monitor; and, the history of clocks.

2018-03-10 • 30 min

18. Female Inventors

Host Mo Rocca shows us the woman who used her grandmother’s tea to keep food from spoiling; the social worker who invented the phone charging purse; the scientist who took a balloon into the stratosphere; and the new take on the age-old butter churner.

2018-03-31 • 30 min

19. Spray-on Touchscreen

Host Mo Rocca shows us the underwater trash can cleaning up harbors; the spray-on touchscreen that can change the computing world; concrete cloth building fast, rock-hard homes; and, the history of roadside lodging.

2018-04-07 • 30 min

20. Super Soaker Inventor

Host Mo Rocca shows us the rocket scientist who invented the Super Soaker squirt gun; the street-traveling delivery robot; the light that uses gravity as power; and, the historic Le Mans race between Ford and Ferrari.

2018-04-14 • 30 min

21. Magnetic Design

Host Mo Rocca shows the amazing designs of magnetic liquid; the app that can detect head injuries; the drone planting forests; and, the history of the lathe which changed machinery.

2018-04-21 • 30 min

22. 100th Episode

Host Mo Rocca shows us the best of our first 100 shows, including the wolves of Yellowstone; the teen who created an app to help those being bullied in school; the Jetman who flies with wings on his back; and, the story of Rosa Parks and restoring the bus where she made history.

2018-04-28 • 30 min

23. Girls Who Code

Host Mo Rocca shows us the woman who started an organization to encourage young women to learn computer coding; the man who created a paper airplane drone; how designers Charles and Ray Eames used design to teach math; and, the glove helping the disabled.

2018-05-05 • 30 min

24. Segway Inventor

Host Mo Rocca shows us the cat backpack; the man who invented the Segway; we get inventive advice from the innovators we’ve profiled; and, the history of pressed glass.

2018-05-12 • 30 min

25. Artificial Arm Inventor

Host Mo Rocca shows us the inexpensive artificial arm invented by a teen; the mouthpiece that’s an automatic toothbrush; the mechanical snake that seeks out water pollution; and, the machine based on early computer theories.

2018-05-19 • 30 min

26. Strandbeest

Host Mo Rocca shows us the innovation of floating down a river on a hammock; the inventor of shoes that grow along with the child’s foot; the mesmerizing movements of the wind-driven sculptures called Strandbeests; and, how electricity first moved from the lab to the home.

2018-05-26 • 30 min