ENCORE It’s the perennial dream: build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. We go to San Jose’s famed Tech Museum to learn what it takes to turn a good idea into a grand success.
\nRemember the Super Soaker squirt gun? Hear how its inventor is now changing the rules for solar energy.
\nWhere do good ideas come from? A Eureka moment in the bathtub? We’ll find out that it doesn’t happen so quickly – or easily.
\nAnd finally, the life cycle of society-changing technologies, from the birth of radio to the future of the Internet.
\nInventions, inventors and innovation: all part of the mix on “Better Mousetrap.”
\n Guests:\nOriginally released February 7, 2011
","author_name":"Seth Shostak, Molly Bentley, SETI Institute"}