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Super cool tech : technology. invention. innovation.

Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : DK / Penguin Random House, 2016Description: 189 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1465452052
  • 9781465452054
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Play: Hololens -- Action camera -- Xbox one -- Tablet computer -- 3-D pen -- tuning up -- Smart watch -- PS4 -- Oled TV -- Instrument 1 -- 3-D printer -- RFID tags -- Tech toys -- Surface book -- Glow sticks -- Move: Hoverboard -- Super rocket -- Whill -- Electric car -- Spaceshiptwo -- Bio-bus -- Elliptigo -- Orion -- Airlander -- Jet wing -- On the road -- Beluga airbus -- Future ship -- New horizons -- Volocopter -- Construct: Skycraper -- Blue planet -- Icehotel -- Khan Shatyr -- Pompidou center -- Amazing builds -- Cantilever bridge -- Lotus temple -- Art gallery -- Floating hotel -- Palm Jumeirah -- Bertha -- Magic materials -- Power: Gigafactory -- Baxter -- Raspberry Pi -- Bucket-wheel excavator -- Bionic suit -- Large hadron collider -- Lighten up -- Soft rocker -- Jet engine -- Hydroelectric dam -- Live: C-thru helmet -- Cleverpet -- Rotating house -- Fontus -- E-reader -- Bionic limbs -- Commerical drone -- Activity tracker -- Panono -- Living on Mars -- Second sight -- The ocean cleanup project -- Living in the ISS -- Medical marvels -- Future: Phonebloks -- Passenger drone -- Becoming invisible -- Space frontiers -- Hyperloop -- Teleportation -- Internet of things -- Artificial intelligence -- Flying car -- Space telescope -- Quantum computer -- Gravity waves -- Reference: What's next?
Summary: Explores some of today's most impressive technological innovations and how they are shaping the world.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 600 S959 Available 33111008479657
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What's the coolest stuff you can think of?

There are robots and rockets for starters. Imagine flying cars and underwater hotels. Don't forget your Playstation console. Whatever you like, this seriously cool book lifts the lid on all this and much, much more so you can see inside for yourself.

Following on from the original multi-million seller How Cool Stuff Works , this cutting-edge visual guide for children comes packed with top-notch technology for state-of-the-art buildings, record-breaking transport, mind-blowing entertainment devices, and advanced Artificial Intelligence. What's more, this jam-packed book even looks into fantastic future technologies, including teleportation and invisibility cloaks.

The eye-catching laptop-style book is full of breathtaking images that reveal the secret workings of the latest and greatest gadgets, alongside easily accessible text to help young readers get to grips with the tricky subject of technology.

For total techies and gizmo geeks, books don't come cooler than this.

Play: Hololens -- Action camera -- Xbox one -- Tablet computer -- 3-D pen -- tuning up -- Smart watch -- PS4 -- Oled TV -- Instrument 1 -- 3-D printer -- RFID tags -- Tech toys -- Surface book -- Glow sticks -- Move: Hoverboard -- Super rocket -- Whill -- Electric car -- Spaceshiptwo -- Bio-bus -- Elliptigo -- Orion -- Airlander -- Jet wing -- On the road -- Beluga airbus -- Future ship -- New horizons -- Volocopter -- Construct: Skycraper -- Blue planet -- Icehotel -- Khan Shatyr -- Pompidou center -- Amazing builds -- Cantilever bridge -- Lotus temple -- Art gallery -- Floating hotel -- Palm Jumeirah -- Bertha -- Magic materials -- Power: Gigafactory -- Baxter -- Raspberry Pi -- Bucket-wheel excavator -- Bionic suit -- Large hadron collider -- Lighten up -- Soft rocker -- Jet engine -- Hydroelectric dam -- Live: C-thru helmet -- Cleverpet -- Rotating house -- Fontus -- E-reader -- Bionic limbs -- Commerical drone -- Activity tracker -- Panono -- Living on Mars -- Second sight -- The ocean cleanup project -- Living in the ISS -- Medical marvels -- Future: Phonebloks -- Passenger drone -- Becoming invisible -- Space frontiers -- Hyperloop -- Teleportation -- Internet of things -- Artificial intelligence -- Flying car -- Space telescope -- Quantum computer -- Gravity waves -- Reference: What's next?

Explores some of today's most impressive technological innovations and how they are shaping the world.

Includes index.

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