makers Meet the rocket scientist who invented the Super Soaker David Pescovitz

Funny Clever inventor designs sock removal device Xeni Jardin

makers See the magic of a Tesla Valve David Pescovitz

Games The game Operation was born as a test of desert survival skills David Pescovitz

makers Young woman invents ingenious bioplastic made from fish scales and red algae David Pescovitz

makers The Slinky was invented by accident David Pescovitz

inventors The inventor of cruise control was blind Mark Frauenfelder

makers Watch this excellent 1977 documentary about makers and mad inventors David Pescovitz

happy mutants Profile of a whimsical arcade machine maker Mark Frauenfelder

Comics The real story of Sea Monkeys David Pescovitz

inventors List of inventors killed by their own inventions Mark Frauenfelder

drm Justifiably angry man hacks evil GE refrigerator Mark Frauenfelder

books Why do new psychotherapies work, and then stop? Cory Doctorow

useful stuff Carla Sinclair talks about some of her favorite tools on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder

psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow

robots Pogoing robot looks like it's having fun bouncing through an obstacle course David Pescovitz

fraud How the patent office's lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed to defraud investors and patients Cory Doctorow