Innovation / Video
Boeing Chief Technology Officer John Tracy introduces Boeing’s new video series and website by sharing his unique perspective on the sources of innovationand inspiration
Tailored Arrivals: A Fuel-Efficient Future
There are more than 30,000 flights a day in the U.S aloneall controlled by an air traffic management system conceived in the 1950s. In this video, see how “tailored arrivals” …
Flexible Flyer: Unmanned Little Bird
See how innovative Boeing engineers took the ultra-flexible Unmanned Little Bird to a whole new level of capability by turning the proven multi-role helicopter into an optionally-manned air vehicle
The Phantom Eye: The Eye in the Sky
Boeing’s Phantom Eye is an unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) that serves as an eye in the sky for surveillance, disaster relief, search and rescue, and a multitude of other uses. …
Sugar Volt: Envisioning Tomorrow’s Aircraft
NASA asked a Boeing-led team to explore the possibilities of a hybrid electric aircraft. Marty Bradley, Boeing Research and Technology, explains how the SUGAR Volt concept is defining the future …
747-8 Engine: Balance of Power
The Boeing 747-8 represents innovation on a massive scale. Go behind the scenes to find out how Boeing engineers integrate its incredibly powerful engines so that it flies like a …
To get the breakthrough innovations in Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing had to rethink the way it makes airplanes. Tom Cogan, director of Airplane Development, explains how the game-changing jetliner that …
Increasing world demand is pushing up the cost of fossil fuelsa finite resource our world cannot sustain. Boeing Chemist James Kinder tells us how his team is leading the way …
Blended Wing Body: The Shape of Things to Come?
Learn about Blended Wing Body aircraft, a remotely piloted experimental jet shaped like a manta ray. Engineer Bob Liebeck explains how Boeing is working with NASA to explore fuel savings …
Designed for the Environment: Planning In-Aircraft Recycling
Boeing is designing jetliners with the environmental impact of their life span in mind. From the fuselage to the carpet, Boeing Director of Environmental Performance Jeanne Yu explains why Boeing …
Bryan Stevenson: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
The legal crusader who has given thousands of young people in America’s prisons a second chance
Pardis Sabeti: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
This rock star Harvard professor explains why she believes she has the greatest job in the world
Jim Anderson: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
The Harvard chemist who discovered an alarming link between climate change and ozone loss explains his research
Sebastian Thrun: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
An expert in artificial intelligence is transforming the way people learn around the world
Bryan Stevenson on the Injustices in America
The Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award winner for social progress reminisces about what his meeting with Rosa Parks meant for his life’s work
New Type of Electronic Circuit Dissolves in Water
The newly invented temporary electronics could be implanted in the body or used to monitor the environment without a need for cleanup afterward
CMD & CTRL: Tim Wu on Network Neutrality
We know that technology carries with it all manner of problems, but one of our biggest pickles tends to slip right by us
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey recently released the largest ever 3-D map of the sky with some 540,000 galaxies
Take a look at the outrageous automobiles of the San Francisco ArtCar Festival
The Genius of Design: Designs for Living
The modernist home: a.k.a. “a machine for living in,” a perfect example of form following function. But one man’s dream house is another man’s house of horrors.
Nature Inspires Water Resistant Clothes
If you’ve ever seen a lotus leaf, you might have noticed that their leaves are water proof. Designers took note and applied the same principles to clothing to produce a …
The Incredible Flying Car of the 1950s
Equipped with wings and a propeller, Moulton Taylor Aerocar aerobile was capable of taking off from a stoplight or the runway
How Dogs are Replacing Drugs in the Treatment of PTSD
Paws for Purple Hearts is a unique program that uses dogs to treat soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Hiller Flying Platform had the potential to be a space age personal flying machine. But it didn’t quite take off.
Chris Melissinos, guest curator of an exhibit about video games at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explains what makes the genre an art form
Chris Melissinos, guest curator of an exhibit about video games at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explains what makes the genre an art form
The Long History of 3D Photography
A museum in Portland, Oregon highlights the multi-layered path of 3D imagery, from stereoscopes of the American West to blockbuster movies
Garrison Brothers use local ingredients and antique machinery to create the smooth spirit
What Secrets Lie in The Hope Diamond?
Smithsonian scientists use cutting-edge technology to extract atoms from the surface of the Hope Diamond to unravel its unique DNA.
Without a national power grid, some isolated communities in Afghanistan rely on wind and solar systems to generate affordable energy
While travelling with the Mentawai tribe in Indonesia, the photographer explains his method for how he shoots his tattooed subjects.
From decorative urns and plates to chandeliers, the Corning Museum of Glass features glass blown items from today to as far back as ancient Egypt.
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