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Innovative Spirit

This Handheld Ultrasound Scanner Could Be the Next Stethoscope

Clarius co-founder and CEO Laurent Pelissier believes the affordable, wireless device could revolutionize health care
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Featured Inventor

Escape Artist Harry Houdini Was an Ingenious Inventor
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New Tech

Seven Wild Gadgets Unveiled at CES 2017
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Innovation at the Smithsonian

This Souped-Up Scuba Suit Made a Stratospheric Leap

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For Scientists, Chunks of Whale Earwax Can Be Biological Treasure Troves

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Happy 10th Birthday, iPhone! So What's Next?

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Health

This Handheld Ultrasound Scanner Could Be the Next Stethoscope

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Scientists Can Turn This Gecko-Inspired Gripping Device On or Off With the Flick of a Light

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This App Uses Facial Recognition Software to Help Identify Genetic Conditions

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Future of Cities

Can This Trash Can Turn Food Waste Into Garden Treasure?

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This Camera Can See Around Corners

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Could Wood Scraps Fuel Planes?

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Advances in Education

This Language-Teaching Device Constantly Whispers Lessons In Your Ear

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With This Smartphone Microscope, You Can Play Soccer and Pac-Man With Microbes

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This Speedy, Wall-Crawling Conveyor System Will Now Deliver Books at the New York Public Library

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The Fight Against Cancer

How Scorpion Venom Is Helping Doctors Treat Cancer

When injected into the body, Tumor Paint lights up cancers. The drug could lead to a new class of therapeutics
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Origins of Everyday Objects

The Story of the Weber Grill Begins With a Buoy

How Chuck Taylor Taught America How to Play Basketball

How an Italian Immigrant Rolled Out the Radio Flyer Wagon Across America

Videos

This Interactive Installation Rains a Poem Down on Viewers

Artists Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv wrote the software that drives an artwork, in which onlookers catch letters falling on a large screen

This Bionic Suit May Be the Future of Prosthetics

Inventor Scott Summit is personalizing medical devices through 3D printing
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When a Trip to the Zoo Resulted in an Engineering Breakthrough

Megan Leftwich, an engineering professor at George Washington University, is building a robotic flipper based on her observations of sea lions

Teenage Inventor Alexis Lewis Thinks That Kids Have the Solutions to the World's Problems

With a patent to her name and more likely on the way, the 15-year-old has made it her mission to inspire young innovators

Around the Smithsonian

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

Bright Ideas Blog

National Museum of American History

Inventing in America

National Museum of American History

American Enterprise

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Designing the Pen

Smithsonian Education

IdeaLabs

National Air & Space Museum

Milestones of Flight

The Smithsonian Associates

Calendar of Events

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave