Building Stuff: Brilliant Inventions to Boost Human Abilities

Is engineering humanity’s superpower? See how we can amplify our natural abilities in amazing ways. Around the world, engineers are finding ingenious ways to amplify our abilities and senses – allowing us to access and shape the world way beyond our natural gifts. From helping a blind man see without the use of his eyes to building a sling so powerful it can shoot rockets into space, see why engineering just might be the closest thing to a superpower we humans have.

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