>> Bill Nye: Hi, Bill Nye the Science Guy here and welcome to Innovations.
Are there any questions so far?
Yeah. Yeah you in the back.
What are
Innovations?
Oh, it's a great question. When you combine the word innovation with the word inventions, you get
whoa
Innovations, and because Innovations are based on human ideas
Innovations will always get better
>> Hey, up here.
>> Hey Muscle boy!
>> Hold it.
We want people to hear our side.
>> We hate in o vantions, >> yeah.
>>Bill: That's Innoventions. >> We don't like new words either.
>> I'm skeptical of anything new. >> Yeah.
>> Bill: I suppose you're all skeptical. >> No...
>> No, I'm uncertain.
Well, maybe uncertain isn't the right word.
Perhaps, hesitant would be better.
Well, what I really like uncertain at least.
>> Bill: I think I like I think we got it. >> Good.
>> Bill: And you?
>> I'm suspicious, who wants to know? >> Bill: I do.
I'm Bill Nye the Science Guy. >> Whoo.
>> How do we know you're Bill Nye the Science Guy. You could be just Bill Nye, a science guy. >> Yeah.
>> Bill: I know who you guys are. You're the clouds of doubt. >> Yeah.
>> Bill: And you've been hanging over scientists and inventors for ages.
>> Oh, hey, somebody's gotta stop these crackpots. >> Yeah, you can't trust them.
>> Bill: Lucky for us. You guys aren't very good at your job.
>> Hey!
>> 15 years in the union.
Have you ever heard of Harvey's melding in his hot pepper slipper?
>> Bill: No.
>> And you never will either.
>> We rest our case.
>> Bill: Hang on, Hang on,
Hang on didn't you try to tell her mole phrase that is aluminum pop-top can would never work?
>> Yeah, we told them to keep a lid on it.
>> Yeah. >> He kept popping up on us.
>> That is very funny. >> Bill: I'll bet you tried to discourage
Malita Benz when she was developing a drip coffee filter system?
>> I told her, working in coffee has no perks.
>> Perks (laughing)
>> Is that funny? >> Yeah.
>> Bill: Then you probably tried to keep Garrett Morgan from inventing the
Automatic traffic signal?
>> Which one was he?
>> You remember, the guy we tried to stop, but he kept going, didn't he?
>> Bill: Haven't you guys learned by now that
successful scientists and inventors. Don't listen to a word you say.
>> Oh, yeah you listen to us. >> Yeah.
We stopped you from inventing the electric three-ring binder.
>> Bill: Hey you guys I was 10 years old.
>> And how about that bicycle powered vacuum cleaner of yours?
>> Bill: Hey, you know that wasn't such a bit. That was okay. Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Oh
Wait a minute.
>> Well, I guess that takes care him. (laugh) >> Don't count on it.
>> BIll: Okay. Sure >> Awwwwww.
>> Bill: Some ideas are big old mistakes. And others won't work because they're not looked at closely enough.
But for every mistake,
a successful invention comes along that makes our lives just a little better.
And remember, whether it's an electric three-ring binder or a
supercomputer.
Every invention starts out as,
an idea
we've all had ideas.
>> Speak for yourself. >> At least most of us.
>> Bill: It's that moment of illumination when inspiration strikes.
It can come from anywhere really. Sometimes it just comes screaming out of the blue.
Like when Percy Spencer was working with radio waves, and noticed that a piece of candy had melted in his pocket.
This, of course, led to. >> Big dry-cleaning bills.
(laughing)
the microwave oven.
You might say
he was just lucky
luck has a lot to do with it.
But,
>> Hey, where do we go now? >> Who knows?
>> Bill: Good scientists and inventors tune into the world around them.
They observe nature, they learn and understand scientific principles. They look at what's been done before and then they
stretch
their imaginations to come up with something new.
>> Cool. >> Oh, doesn't that hurt? >> I hope so.
(laugh)
>> Hey, I didn't know there was going to be a pop quiz?
>> I don't know if I'm ready.
>> Bill: Here's a stretch, what do burrs stuck on clothes have to do with invention?
>> Careful. >> This is a trick question.
>> Bill: After hiking in the Swiss Alps, George de Mestral noticed that he had gotten burrs stuck all over his clothes.
He looked at them carefully and saw that they had tiny hooks, which had linked to loops in the fabric.
He tuned in to what nature had done.
He stretched his imagination, and he saw a new way to fasten clothes. He invented voila!
Velcro.
>> That does it from now on we're gonna work twice as hard to rein in these brainstorms
>> Bill: Before you guys get all riled up I had an idea.
>> An idea?
>> Quick stop him, douse him. >> Stop that idea.
>> Take that science guy. >> That will teach him. >> Give it up, it will never work!
>> Bill: It wasn't that great of an idea, it was just a thought.
>> Don't stop now. >> Let him have it. >> Give it to him good.
>> Quick hurricane the guy. >> Oh no, not you.
>> Out of my way frog brain. It's time for me to take over.
>> Hey easy, I barely knew these guys. I never really trusted them honest.
aaaahhhhhhh
>> Is it getting warm in here? >> Or is it just me? Uh Oh.
>> Bill: Folks, meet perseverance.
Perseverance means sticking with it and it's the best thing for drying up, even the stormiest cloud of doubt.
>> May I start by saying you've never looked better.
You did something to your raise didn't you? >> No I didn't.
>> I swear you look about a thousand years younger. No, I mean it.
wwooohhhh
>> Bill: Thanks perseverance, I knew you'd come through.
>> Oh, no problem. I've been helping scientists and inventors for as long as I can remember.
>> You're full of hot air. You haven't done anything important since the wheel.
>> Bill: Oh Yeah? what about these?
>> Stay away from me you big wall of gas,
I mean it, aaahhhhh
>> Bill: Who said there's nothing new under the sun? Oh that reminds me,
I hope you find the Innoventions and the exhibits around you as fascinating as I do. Because this is just the beginning, with science and perseverance.
>> Thank you.
>> Bill: And people like yourselves
stretching your imagination.
There will always be new Innoventions at the end of the rainbow.
>> Hey, so what about your idea?
>> Bill: Can't remember it.
>> Was it that electric three-ring binder?
>> Bill: Would you guys stop with the binder thing? I was just a kid.
Thanks for coming everyone. I gotta fly Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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