The architects behind BuildChange do more than build earthquake-resistant houses in developing countries: They create designs that are as quick and cheap to build as traditional homes, using readily found materials, so locals can continue to put up safe structures after volunteers leave. For instance, they trained builders following the tsunami Indonesia, and are currently working with people there who lost their homes in earthquakes.
While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a fantasy with the XOS Exoskeleton