Are you a slave to your lawn? A new strain of grass seed requires no watering and very little cutting. Plus, from the great minds at MIT comes a cure for bad hair days. And, we drop in on a celebration of the year’s most ridiculous inventions, and meet the 13-year-old whose award-winning ideas are making life easier for the elderly.

Inventors: Segment One

Inventors: Segment Two

Inventors: Segment Three

Inventors: Segment Four

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Living Proof (No Frizz hair product)
Living Proof

Pearl's Premium (low maintenance grass seed)
Pearl's Premium

Lemelson MIT Program (Invention and Innovation)
Lemelson MIT Prog.

InvenTeams (MIT sponsored student inventors)
InvenTeams

Continuum
Continuum

Ig Nobel Prizes
Ig Nobels

Annals of Improbable Research
Improbable Research

Under-Ease (anti-odor underwear)
Under-Ease

BowLingual (dog language translator)
BowLingual

Puzzles To Remember
Puzzles To Remember