Podcasts by Cool Tools

306: Windell Oskay from 2021-11-26T17:00

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/windell-oskay-robot-designer/

If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fa...

305: Carol Tilley from 2021-11-19T17:00

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/barbara-dace-autoharpist-and-pharmacist/

If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorit...

304: Barbara Dace from 2021-11-12T17:00

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/barbara-dace-autoharpist-and-pharmacist/

If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorit...

303: Sean Bonner from 2021-11-05T16:00:34

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/sean-bonner-street-photographer/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic...

302: Ruben Bolling from 2021-10-29T16:00:24

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/ruben-bolling-cartoonist-2/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tool...

301: Bonnie Burton from 2021-10-22T16:00:12

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/bonnie-burton-author-and-games-writer/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fan...

300: Leah Zaidi from 2021-10-15T16:00:40

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/leah-zaidi-futurist/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by 15...

299: Amber Case from 2021-10-08T16:00:37

For show notes and transcript visit: http://kk.org/cooltools/amber-case-2021-mozilla-fellow/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic t...

298: Austin Kleon from 2021-10-01T16:00:42

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/austin-kleon-author-of-steal-like-an-artist/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tool...

297: Jeff Yang from 2021-09-24T16:00:19

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/jeff-yang-cultural-critic-and-author/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fant...

296: Mack Reed from 2021-09-17T16:00:36

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/mack-reed-technologist/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by...

295: Jim Louderback from 2021-09-10T16:00:17

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/jim-louderback-web-video-pioneer/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantasti...

294: Kelly Sue DeConnick from 2021-09-03T16:00:16

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/kelly-sue-deconnick-comic-book-writer/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fan...

293: Stephanie Jaros from 2021-08-27T16:00:15

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/stephanie-jaros-founder-of-the-threat-lab/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools:...

292: Gina Clarke from 2021-08-20T16:00:05

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/gina-clarke-malibu-seaside-chef/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic...

291: Cool Tools Team from 2021-08-13T16:00:06

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/kevin-mark-claudia-cool-tools-team/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantas...

290: Jorge Camacho from 2021-08-06T16:00:04

For show notes and transcript visit: If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by 150 notable creators, available in both Color or...

289: Joe Grand from 2021-07-30T16:00:11

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/joe-grand-hardware-hacker/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools...

288: Joe Szuecs from 2021-07-23T16:00:21

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/joe-szuecs-founder-of-the-maker-music-festival/ Our guest this week is Joe Szuecs, the founder of the Maker Music Festival. Joe is also...

287: Sherry Huss from 2021-07-16T16:00:10

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/sherry-huss-co-founder-of-maker-faire/ Our guest this week is Sherry Huss. Co-founder of Maker Faire and Innovator in Residence at Free...

286: Marc Wade from 2021-07-09T16:00:32

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/marc-wade-messermeister/ Our guest this week is Marc Wade. He’s the Director of Business Development for Messermeister, the leading man...

285: Ian Charnas from 2021-07-02T16:00:20

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/ian-charnas-engineer/ Our guest this week is Ian Charnas. Ian is an engineer and YouTuber who co-founded Sears think[box], a 7-story ma...

284: Donald Bell from 2021-06-25T16:00:59

Our guest this week is Donald Bell. Donald is the creator and host of the weekly video series Maker Update. He’s a writer for Autodesk. And you’ve probably seen him on the Cool Tools YouTube channe...

283: Alana Aamodt from 2021-06-18T16:00:19

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/alana-aamodt-toy-designer/ Our guest this week is Alana Aamodt. Alana is a toy designer and educator from Denver, Colorado. She has a b...

282: Mike Senese from 2021-06-11T16:00:13

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/mike-senese-executive-editor-of-make/ Our guest this week is Mike Senese. Mike is the executive editor of Make: magazine. He’s worked a...

281: Seth Raphael from 2021-06-04T16:00:11

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/seth-raphael-hi-tech-magician/ Seth Raphael is a modern day Robert Houdin, combining cutting edge technology with age-old magic techniq...

280: Rusty Blazenhoff from 2021-05-28T16:00:23

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/rusty-blazenhoff-social-artist/ Our guest this week is Rusty Blazenhoff. Rusty is a social artist who aims to bring surprise and deligh...

279: Paul Boswell from 2021-05-21T16:00:40

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/paul-boswell-educational-toy-maker/ Our guest this week is Paul Boswell. Paul is co-founder of Turing Tumble. He’s been an analytical c...

cooltools278 from 2021-05-14T16:00:36

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/dug-north-maker/ Our guest this week is Dug North. Dug is a maker, best known for his mechanical wooden sculptures. He spent five years...

277: Randy Regier from 2021-05-07T16:00:40

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/randy-regier-artist/ Our guest this week is Randy Regier. Randy is an artist living and working in Kansas City, Kansas. Randy has lived...

276: Lawrence Lazare from 2021-04-30T16:00:32

Our guest this week is Lawrence Lazare. After a 25-year career as an ecommerce product leader, Lawrence recently retired due to the loss of his central vision from a genetic eye disease. In his ret...

275: Nicole Harkin from 2021-04-23T16:00:31

Our guest this week is Nicole Harkin. Nicole’s an award-winning writer and photographer based in Washington, D.C. Her first book, Tilting, A Memoir was released in 2017 and since then she’s been wo...

274: Tyler Winegarner from 2021-04-16T16:00:39

Our guest this week is Tyler Winegarner. Tyler is a maker, media producer, and filmmaker. He's the editor of the weekly video series, Maker Update. He's the technical director for the Empire State ...

273: Ken Goldberg from 2021-04-09T16:00:41

For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/ken-goldberg-artist-and-roboticist/?preview=true Our guest this week is Ken Goldberg. Ken is an artist, inventor, and roboticist. He is...

272: Gioia Palmieri from 2021-04-02T16:00:20

Our guest this week is Gioia Palmieri. Gioia was born in Boston in 1967. She is co-editor & publisher of Mineshaft, a small art, comics & literary mag that was started in 1999. Gioia lives in Durha...

271: David Yoon from 2021-03-26T16:00:40

Our guest this week is David Yoon. David is the New York Times bestselling author of Frankly in Love, Super Fake Love Song, and Version Zero. He’s also co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random Hous...

270: Alberta Chu from 2021-03-19T16:00:40

Our guest this week is Alberta Chu, Founder of the boutique digital content production company ASKlabs in Boston MA. Alberta is a cultural producer, independent curator, digital content creator, an...

269: Charles Platt from 2021-03-12T17:00:38

Our guest this week is Charles Platt. Charles used to write science fiction, was a senior editor for Wired magazine, and is the author of several books about electronics, one of them an Amazon best...

268: Spencer Wright from 2021-03-05T17:00:32

Our guest this week is Spencer Wright. Spencer is the founder of theprepared.org, where he edits a widely read newsletter about engineering, manufacturing, and other meaningful work in the physical...

267: Jordan Calhoun from 2021-02-26T17:00:42

Our guest this week is Jordan Calhoun. Jordan is the deputy editor of Lifehacker and author of the upcoming book Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture. You can find Jordan o...

266: Travis McElroy from 2021-02-19T18:18:56

Our guest this week is Travis McElroy. Travis is a podcaster, a best selling author and a really cool person. You can find Travis and The McElroy family on Youtube and on Twitter @travismcelroy. Fo...

265: Seth Godin from 2021-02-12T17:00:42

Our guest this week is Seth Godin. Seth is a 20-time bestselling author, a blogger, an internet pioneer, and a teacher. Find out more at seths.blog. For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk....

264: Neil Day from 2021-02-05T17:00:48

Our guest this week is Neil Day. Neil been writing software for over 40 years, and loves coffee, making things and outdoor adventures. He’s led technology teams at Walmart.com, Shutterfly, Blue Bot...

237: Steven Dubner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Our guest this week is Stephen Dubner. Stephen’s an award-winning author, journalist, and TV and radio personality. He’s co-author of the Freakonomics books, which have sold millions of copies in 4...

263: Lloyd Dangle from 2021-01-29T17:00:37

Our guest this week is Lloyd Dangle. Lloyd is a business strategist who works with senior leaders from major companies to help them design their strategies for the future. He works for Amazon Web S...

262: John Park from 2021-01-22T17:00:29

Our guest this week is John Park. John is a professional maker. He builds creative technology projects, tutorials, and videos for Adafruit Industries. John hosted the Emmy-nominated Make: Televisio...

261: Billie Ruben from 2021-01-15T17:00:29

Our guest this week is Billie Ruben. Billie is a maker of many kinds. She has a background in theatrical costume making, and has helped run some of the largest 3D printing communities around. She l...

260: Todd Lappin from 2021-01-08T17:00

Our guest this week is Todd Lappin. Todd is a writer, photographer, occasional journalist, and full-time geek with a particular interest in transportation, infrastructure, and Chinese and Japanese ...

259: Shoshana Berger from 2021-01-01T17:00:04

Our guest this week is Shoshana Berger, the author of A Beginner's Guide to the End with Dr. BJ Miller. She's also a senior director at the global design firm IDEO, where she's worked on projects r...

258: Claudia Dawson from 2020-12-25T17:00:04

Our guest this week is Claudia Dawson. Claudia is part of the Cool Tools team, the producer of Recomendo and the editor of the weekly What’s in my Bag? newsletter. You can find her on Twitter @clau...

257: DL Cade from 2020-12-18T17:00:29

Our guest this week is DL Cade. DL is an art, science and technology writer, and the former Editor in Chief of the photography blog PetaPixel. When he’s not writing, he works in the Neitz Lab at th...

256: Colin Marshall from 2020-12-11T17:01

Our guest this week is Colin Marshall. Colin previously hosted the podcasts The Marketplace of Ideas and Notebook on Cities and Culture. Now living in Seoul, he writes for publications like Boing B...

255: Kurt Kohlstedt from 2020-12-04T17:00:45

Our guest this week is Kurt Kohlstedt. Kurt writes and talks about design and cities at the popular podcast 99% Invisible. He has been covering design, art and urbanism professionally across variou...

254: Julie Sokolow from 2020-11-27T17:00:22

Our guest this week is Julie Sokolow. Julie is the director of the new documentary Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story. The film profiles an activist who walked barefoot across America to protest clima...

253: Duane Swierczynski from 2020-11-20T19:15:52

Our guest this week is Duane Swierczynski. Duane is an award-winning author of crime novels, comic books, audio dramas and other violent amusements. His story “Lush” was included in last year’s Bes...

252: Daniel Schaefer from 2020-11-13T17:00:31

Our guest this week is Daniel Schaefer. Daniel is the kind of person who often finds himself in too many interesting situations to choose just a few to throw in a bio, but through his photography, ...

251: Tiffany Shlain from 2020-11-06T17:00:29

Our guest this week is Tiffany Shlain. Tiffany is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and the author of the national bestselling book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a W...

250: Sam Maggs from 2020-10-30T16:00:34

Our guest this week is Sam Maggs. Sam is a best-selling author of books, including The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope, Conquest, and Tell No Tales, as well as comics, including Marvel Action, Capt...

249: Ramona Pringle from 2020-10-23T16:00:46

Our guest this week is Ramona Pringle. Ramona is a creator, journalist, and researcher whose work focuses on the interactions between humans, technology and the world around us. She’s a contributor...

248: Brian Fisher from 2020-10-16T16:00:34

Our guest this week is Dr. Brian Fisher. He's a curator of entomology at the California Academy of sciences and a world-renowned ant expert, nicknamed the "Ant Man". Fisher has spent three decades ...

247: Vanessa Mason from 2020-10-09T16:07:13

Our guest this week is Vanessa Mason. Vanessa Mason is the research director at the Institute for the Future, a 52 year old nonprofit organization that helps individuals, organizations and communit...

246: Mark Moffett from 2020-10-02T16:00:37

Our guest this week is Mark Moffett, who did his doctorate under Harvard conservationist E.O. Wilson. In grad school, Mark figured out photography to document his ant research, leading to his first...

245: Joshua Schachter from 2020-09-25T16:00:34

Our guest this week is Joshua Schachter. Joshua is the founder of del.icio.us and inventor of tagging, which became hashtags. Joshua has founded two startups, invests in startups, runs an event for...

244: Claire Lower from 2020-09-18T16:00:38

Our guest this week is Claire Lower, the senior food editor for Lifehacker.com. Claire lives in Portland OR, and has a BS in chemistry from the University of Florida, which she says she almost neve...

243: Sonal Chokshi from 2020-09-11T17:00:03

Our guest this week is Sonal Chokshi. Sonal is editor in chief at Andreessen Horowitz, where she built the popular a16z Podcast among other things; she’s a former senior editor at Wired, and she di...

242: Bob Potts from 2020-09-04T17:00:10

Our guest this week is Bob Potts. Bob holds a MFA in Industrial Design and was Design Director for a series of corporate groups responsible for design development of diagnostic medical products inc...

241: Nosa Edoimioya from 2020-08-28T17:00:17

Our guest this week is Nosa Edoimioya. Nosa is a PhD student at the University of Michigan working on controls of 3D printers. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter and Medium. For show notes visit...

240: Itamar Kubovy from 2020-08-21T17:00:33

Our guest this week is Itamar Kubovy. Itamar is a creator and curator of live experiences. He studied philosophy; ran theaters in Germany and Sweden; wrote and directed plays and films, and for 16 ...

239: Angela Eaton from 2020-08-14T17:00:35

Our guest this week is Angela Eaton. Angela is a Black Midwest-born environmental urbanist living and working in California on Ohlone land. Professionally, she supports communities in their efforts...

238: Jennifer Robbins from 2020-08-07T17:00:32

Our guest this week is Jennifer Robbins. Jennifer is a designer who is best known for her work in web design. She has written thirteen books, including Learning Web Design, 5e (O’Reilly) and she co...

237: Stephen Dubner from 2020-07-31T17:03:36

Our guest this week is Stephen Dubner. Stephen’s an award-winning author, journalist, and TV and radio personality. He’s co-author of the Freakonomics books, which have sold millions of copies in 4...

236: Cooper Bates from 2020-07-24T17:00:19

Our guest this week is Cooper Bates. Cooper co-founded the world’s first designer breath mint company, Hint Mint. Cooper also created the TEDx concept, and then he co-founded and produced TEDxSkidR...

235: Matt Mullenweg from 2020-07-17T17:00:30

Our guest this week is Matt Mullenweg, Co-Founder of the open source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over 37% of all sites on the web. He is the Founder and CEO of Automattic, the c...

234: Lux Sparks-Pescovitz from 2020-07-10T16:00:34

Our guest this week is Lux Sparks-Pescovitz. Lux is a 14-year-old maker, musician, writer, retrogamer, pop culture historian, and collector… of many things. Many many things. He also likes dogs and...

233: Len Cullum from 2020-07-03T16:23:57

Our guest this week is Len Cullum. Len is a woodworker living in Seattle, Washington, where he specializes in building Japanese style garden structures, architectural elements, and furniture. A per...

232: Josh Glenn from 2020-06-26T16:00:52

Our guest this week is Josh Glenn. Josh is a consulting semiotician, publisher of the websites HILOBROW and SEMIOVOX, and co-author of such books as The Idler’s Glossary, Significant Objects, and t...

231: McKinley Valentine from 2020-06-19T17:00:32

Our guest this week is McKinley Valentine, McKinley is a writer and editor from Melbourne, Australia. She makes The Whippet, a newsletter of interesting bits of science, history and unsolicited adv...

230: Matt Lumpkin from 2020-06-12T16:00

Our guest this week is Matt Lumpkin. Matt is a restlessly creative person. His career has been focused on User Experience design and digital product strategy. But three years ago, his daughter's di...

229: Kevin and Mark of Cool Tools from 2020-06-05T17:00:08

In this special edition of Cool Tools, Kevin and Mark interview each other about a couple of tools they've been using and enjoying lately. For show notes: https://kk.org/cooltools/kevin-and-marks-f...

228: David Picciuto from 2020-05-29T17:01:07

Our guest today is David Picciuto who’s probably known best for his YouTube channel Make Something. David has written two woodworking books, loves art, music and go kart racing. All of which uses p...

227: Ariel Waldman from 2020-05-22T17:00:33

Our guest this week is Ariel Waldman. Ariel is an advisor to NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program. She led a five-week expedition to Antarctica to film microscopic life under the ice. Ariel ...

226: Maggie Koerth from 2020-05-15T17:00:33

Our guest this week is Maggie Koerth. Maggie is the senior science reporter at FiveThirtyEight. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/maggie-koerth-fivethirtyeight-sr-science-reporter Listen

225: Rob Beschizza from 2020-05-08T18:24:08

Our guest this week is Rob Beschizza, an editor at Boing Boing and creator of txt.fyi, various half-baked video games and other internet-based distractions. You can find him on Twitter @beschizza. ...

224: Carla Diana from 2020-05-01T17:00:38

Our guest this week is Carla Diana. Carla is a designer, author and educator who explores the impact of future technologies through tinkering. Carla has been granted the honor of creating the 4D De...

223: Matt Blum from 2020-04-24T17:00:39

Our guest this week is Matt Blum. Matt is the Editor-in-Chief of the GeekDad blog, which has been going on for 13 years now. He’s a father of two, he’s a longtime software engineer, and totally inc...

222: Jessica Lahey from 2020-04-17T20:45:24

Our guest this week is Jessica Lahey. Jess writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Atlantic, The Washington Post and the New York Times. She’s the author of the New York Times ...

221: Thom Dunn from 2020-04-10T16:00:43

Our guest this week is Thom Dunn. Thom is a writer, musician and terrible dancer whose work can be seen on Wirecutter, Boing Boing, Upworthy, Vice and more. He's also published fiction, plays, poet...

220: Sanho Tree from 2020-04-03T16:00:43

Our guest this week is Sanho Tree. Sanho is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies where he has directed its Drug Policy Project since 1998. The project works to end the domestic and internat...

219: Erika Hall from 2020-03-27T16:00:42

Our guest this week is Erika Hall. Erika is the co-founder of Mule Design based in San Francisco and the author of Just Enough Research and Conversational Design. You can find her on Medium and Twi...

218: Cory Doctorow from 2020-03-20T18:56:43

Our guest this week is Cory Doctorow. Cory is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He's the author of many books, most recently Radicalized and Walk Away, science fiction for adults;...

217: Olga Khazan from 2020-03-13T18:00:28

Our guest this week is Olga Khazan, a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the new book, WEIRD. You can find her on Twitter @olgakhazan. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/olga-kh...

216: Amber Mac from 2020-03-06T17:00:20

Our guest this week is Amber Mac. Amber is the co-host of the award-winning podcast series, The AI Effect, the author of two bestselling business books. She's also the President of AmberMac Media, ...

215: Quinn Cummings from 2020-02-28T17:00:30

Our guest this week is Quinn Cummings, a writer of three books and numerous articles, the partner of one man, the mother of one woman, the caretaker of countless foster animals and a lifelong fan o...

214: Mike Streetz from 2020-02-21T20:11:24

Our guest this week is Mike Streetz. Mike is a new dad, home automation aficionado, electronics tinkerer/maker, and IT Consultant by day. He hails from Sydney, Australia, and is currently based in ...

213: Mike Liebhold from 2020-02-14T19:48:15

Our guest this week is Mike Liebhold. Mike is a Distinguished Fellow and Senior Researcher at the Institute For the Future, exploring future technology systems, working with clients, global leaders...

212: Meeno Peluce from 2020-02-07T19:34:24

Our guest this week is Meeno Peluce. Meeno grew up as a successful child actor in Hollywood, and his kid sister is Soleil Moon Frye of Punky Brewster fame. He then moved behind the camera and has s...

211: Douglas Rushkoff from 2020-01-31T18:56:22

Our guest this week is Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas is named one of the "world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT. He's an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age...

210: Jane Metcalfe from 2020-01-24T19:43:08

Our guest this week is Jane Metcalfe. Jane is the founder of NEO.LIFE, a media and events company tracking how digital tools and an engineering mindset are transforming human biology. Prior to that...

209: Tywen Kelly from 2020-01-17T17:25:24

Our guest this week is Tywen Kelly. Tywen is a recent college graduate living in Seattle. He is a photographer, media theorist, and official Evangelist for Pixvana, a VR video software company turn...

208: Theodore Gray from 2020-01-10T20:47:30

Our guest this week is Theodore Gray. Theodore is the cofounder of Wolfram Research, architect of the Mathematica Notebook System, founder of Touch Press, the BAFTA award-winning director of Disney...

207: Janet Varney from 2020-01-03T19:37:30

Our guest this week is Janet Varney. Janet is an emmy-nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. You may know her from Stan Against Evil, You’re the Worst, Fortune Rookie or as the voice of Ko...

206: Mark Crilley from 2019-12-27T17:00:13

Our guest this week is Mark Crilley. Mark has written and illustrated more than 35 books and graphic novels, and is a 14-time Eisner nominee. His instructional YouTube videos have been viewed more ...

205: Jane Friedman from 2019-12-20T19:40:49

Our guest this week is Jane Friedman. Jane is a full-time freelancer who reports on the publishing industry for outlets like Publishers Weekly, as well as her own newsletter, The Hot Sheet. She’s e...

204: Mark Krawczuk from 2019-12-13T21:01:40

Our guest this week is Mark Krawczuk. Mark works as a freelance producer/project manager, who leads teams of developers and creatives to make digital stuff for big companies. In his free time, Mark...

203: Melissa Kirsch from 2019-12-06T18:37:27

Our guest this week is Melissa Kirsch. Melissa is the editor-in-chief of Lifehacker, as well as the author of The Girl's Guide and the co-host of Lifehacker's podcast, The Upgrade. For show notes v...

202: Dan Slaski from 2019-11-29T17:00:23

Our guest this week is Dan Slaski. Dan is a product designer, Ironman triathlete and blogger of all things digital manufacturing. By day, he tackles crazy engineering problems and puts machines in ...

201: Alice Bradley from 2019-11-22T18:48:43

Our guest this week is Alice Bradley. Alice is the deputy editor of Lifehacker and co-host of Lifehacker’s podcast, The Upgrade. Alice is also co-author of the book Let’s Panic About Babies and her...

200: John Hodgman from 2019-11-15T20:00:23

Our guest this week is John Hodgman. John is a writer, performer, former PC, once the resident expert on the Daily Show, and now the author of two books of non-fake facts and true stories from his ...

199: Jesse Genet from 2019-11-08T16:30:04

Our guest this week is Jesse Genet. Jesse is the co-founder and CEO of Lumi, which helps e-commerce brands manage their custom packaging. Before that, she was the creator of a DIY product called In...

198: Gareth Branwyn from 2019-11-01T19:04:51

Our guest this week is Gareth Branwyn. Gareth has been writing about DIY technology, media, and culture for over three decades. He's a former senior editor of Boing Boing, a founding contributing e...

197: Emily Nussbaum from 2019-10-25T15:58:02

Our guest this week is Emily Nussbaum. Emily is the television critic at The New Yorker, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and the author of “I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through Th...

196: Seth Godin from 2019-10-18T15:30:02

Our guest this week is Seth Godin. Seth is a 19-time bestselling author, a blogger, an internet pioneer and a teacher. You can find out more at seths.blog. For show notes visit: http://kk.org/coolt...

195: Mark & Kevin of Cool Tools from 2019-10-11T19:59:35

Our guests this week are ourselves. We share some of the tools we’ve been using and liking lately. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/kevin-and-marks-four-favorite-tools

194: David Moldawer from 2019-10-04T18:03:10

Our guest this week is David Moldawer. David is a Brooklyn-based writer and book collaborator who spent more than a decade as an acquiring editor in New York City publishing. He also writes a weekl...

193: Carla Sinclair from 2019-09-28T14:21:19

Our guest this week is Carla Sinclair. Carla is an author, freelance writer and editor, and co-founder of boingboing.net. She’s written 5 books, including Girl Genius, which will be released in Nov...

192: Rob Walker from 2019-09-13T16:00:06

Our guest this week is Rob Walker. Rob is the Human Resource Columnist for Lifehacker.com, and a longtime contributor to the New York Times and many other publications. He's on the faculty of Produ...

191: Susie Bright from 2019-09-06T16:00:16

Our guest this week is bestselling author Susie Bright. Susie is a pioneering preeminent feminist sex writer and legendary audio producer. She’s also reached peak satisfaction as a guest editor of ...

190: Nik Schulz from 2019-08-30T16:00:16

Our guest this week is Nik Schulz. Nik wears many hats. He's contributed illustrations to magazines including Wired, Fortune, and Popular Science. He was actually the first illustrator for Make mag...

189: Jordan Bunker from 2019-08-23T16:00:26

Our guest this week is Jordan Bunker. Jordan is a freelance engineer, designer, artist, and prop-maker based out of Oakland, California. He’s also a former Make: magazine technical editor and Battl...

188: Lillian Karabaic from 2019-08-16T16:00:46

Our guest this week is Lillian Karabaic. Lillian is the host of Oh My Dollar!, a weekly syndicated financial advice radio show and podcast for covering the kinds of modern money issues that aren't ...

187: Jeremy Kirshbaum from 2019-08-09T15:00:15

Our guest this week is Jeremy Kirshbaum. Jeremy is a researcher, strategist, and entrepreneur. He splits his time between West Africa, China, and California, where he is from, partnering with peopl...

186: Michelle Hlubinka from 2019-08-02T17:16:29

Our guest this week is Michelle Hlubinka. Michelle has made a career of promoting playful learning through people-centered uses of technology in schools, museums, and neighborhoods. She spent most ...

185: Dan Shapiro from 2019-07-26T16:00:25

Our guest this week is Dan Shapiro. Dan is the founder of Glowforge, the 3D laser printer. He's also the creator of Robot Turtles, the board game that teaches programming to preschoolers. He wrote ...

184: Rob Beschizza from 2019-07-19T15:00:04

Our guest this week is Rob Beschizza. Rob is the Managing Editor of Boing Boing and the Founder of Txt.fyi, and effectively invisible publishing platform and low-key internet cult. For show notes v...

183: Oliver Hulland from 2019-07-12T15:00:14

Our guest this week is Oliver Hulland. Oliver is a former editor of Cool Tools, after which he ended up pursuing a career in medicine. He's currently a third-year resident in emergency medicine at ...

182: Richard Kadrey from 2019-07-05T20:19:55

Our guests this week is Richard Kadrey. Richard is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & F...

181: Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolás Boullosa from 2019-06-28T18:26:53

Our guests this week are Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolás Boullosa. Since 200, Kristen and Nicolas have been producing *faircompanies, a web series that’s evolved to become one of the most comprehensive...

180: Stephen Wolfram from 2019-06-21T09:00:09

Our guest this week is Stephen Wolfram. Stephen is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; he’s the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram R...

179: Dave Rome from 2019-06-14T18:54:40

Our guest this week is Dave Rome. Dave is a gear editor and content strategist at CyclingTips.com, a premium online cycling publication with the mission to share the beauty of cycling. Dave was a p...

178: Cameo Wood from 2019-06-07T18:13:25

Our guest this week is Cameo Wood. Cameo is an EMMY nominated filmmaker. She is also a former tech founder, founded an urban beekeeping store, was the first to perform Turing’s Original Imitation G...

177: Adam Savage from 2019-05-31T18:15:17

Our guest this week is Adam Savage. Adam has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what's in his brain and make it real. He's built everything from ancient Buddhas and futuristic w...

176: Ziya Tong from 2019-05-24T17:00:17

Our guest this week is Ziya Tong. Ziya is an award-winning science broadcaster, best known for her work with Discovery's flagship show, Daily Planet, as well as NOVA ScienceNow and Wired Science on...

175: Sean Michael Ragan from 2019-05-17T17:45:17

Our guest this week is Sean Michael Ragan. Sean is the author of three books including The Total Inventor's Manual, which is on sale now at Costco, Sam's, and all major book retailers. He’s also a ...

174: Joshuah Bearman from 2019-05-10T20:34:27

Our guest this week is Joshuah Bearman. Josh is Epic’s cofounder and CCO and has written for Wired, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and is a regular contributor to This American Life. Jo...

173: Guy Kawasaki from 2019-05-03T20:51:45

Our guest this week is Guy Kawasaki. Guy is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is also a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School ...

172: Tina Roth Eisenberg from 2019-04-26T09:00:19

Our guest this week is Tina Roth Eisenberg. Tina is a Swiss born, raised, and trained graphic designer. In 1999, she came to New York City for a three-month design internship and never left. Over t...

171: Donald Bell from 2019-04-19T17:32:58

Our guest this week is Donald Bell. Donald creates tool review videos for Cool Tools. He also hosts a weekly YouTube show called Maker Update, which collects interesting projects, news, tips, and t...

170: Terri Schweitzer from 2019-04-12T09:00:24

Our guest this week is Terrie Schweitzer. Terrie is the editor of Better Humans for Coach.me, and on the weekend she’s a professional bubble entertainer with Big Top Bubbles. She loves unconvention...

169: Robert Stephens from 2019-04-05T09:00:02

Our guest this week is Robert Stephens. Robert is the founder of The Geek Squad and former CTO of Best Buy. The Geek Squad turns 25 this year, employing over 24,000 people. A native of Chicago, he ...

168: Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro from 2019-03-29T09:00:02

Our guest this week is Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro. Liz and Craig have been married for 26 years, writing together for 20. Most recently, they were the executive producers and showrunners of the C...

167: Om Malik from 2019-03-22T09:00:09

Our guest this week is Om Malik. Om is a partner at early stage venture firm, True Ventures. Prior to becoming an investor, he started GigaOm, a technology blog and covered technology and its impac...

166: Mark Stramaglia from 2019-03-15T19:49:18

Our guest this week is Mark Stramaglia. Mark is an experimental musician and digital artist. He creates games and audio software under the name Bludgeonsoft, and produces and performs music and art...

165: Bonnie Burton from 2019-03-08T19:41:47

Our guest this week is Bonnie Burton. Bonnie is a Los Angeles-based author, who writes books and comics about sea monsters, Wookiees, mean girls, crafts, magical things, robots and aliens. Her book...

164: George Dyson from 2019-03-01T18:36:25

Our guest this week is George Dyson. George divides his time between building boats and writing books, and some fo the books he has written include Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Space...

163: Elon Schoenholz from 2019-02-22T20:18:10

Our guest this week is Elon Schoenholz. Elon is a former guest editor of Cool Tools and has been working as a commercial photographer documenting art and architecture in L.A. for the past 20 years....

162: Tommy Honton from 2019-02-15T21:53:08

Our guest this week is Tommy Honton. Tommy is a Los Angeles-based experience designer who specializes in weaving interactivity and game mechanics into narrative storytelling. Across the United Stat...

161: Madeline Ashby from 2019-02-08T19:30:47

Our guest this week is Madeline Ashby. Madeline is a futurist and science fiction writer living in Toronto. Her most recent novel, Company Town, is available from Tor Books.

For show notes...

160: Steven Leckart from 2019-02-01T21:04:01

Our guest this week is Steven Leckart. Steven is a writer, director, and investigative journalist. He has written a handful of documentaries, including SILICON COWBOYS, and has contributed to vario...

159: John Park from 2019-01-25T23:03:52

Our guest this week is John Park. John is a professional maker. He builds creative technology projects, tutorials, and videos for Adafruit Industries. John hosted the Emmy-nominated Make: Televisio...

158: Dan Pink from 2019-01-18T23:52:18

Our guest this week is Daniel Pink. Daniel is the author of four New York Times bestsellers on work, business, and psychology. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 39 la...

157: Jen Schachter from 2019-01-11T22:40:19

Our guest this week is Jen Schachter. Jen is a multimedia maker and a mastermind of interactive art projects, including a giant light-up sign for the Obama White House, a wooden parking validation ...

156: Michael Kupperman from 2019-01-04T21:28:52

Our guest this week is Michael Kupperman. Michael is an artist and writer in Brooklyn whose work has appeared in or on The New Yorker, Fortune, The New York Times, Nickelodeon Magazine, Forbes, Pla...

155: Aaron Lammer from 2018-12-28T20:00:36

Our guest this week is Aaron Lammer. Aaron is the co-host of the Longform Podcast, which has interviewed non-fiction writers weekly for over half a decade. He has been writing songs with the music ...

154: M.G. Siegler from 2018-12-21T20:15:16

Our guest this week is M.G. Siegler. For the past 5-plus years, M.G. Siegler has been a general partner at GV — Google’s venture capital arm. Before that, he helped start a seed fund called CrunchF...

153: Maggie Tokuda-Hall from 2018-12-15T00:11:44

Our guest this week is Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Maggie is the author of the Parent's Choice Gold Medal winning picture book, Also an Octopus. Her debut young adult novel, The Mermaid, The Witch, and The...

152: Gever Tulley from 2018-12-07T21:02:39

Our guest this week is Gever Tulley. Gever is founder of Tinkering School, an internationally famous summer camp where kids build amazing things from rollercoasters to wind-powered trains. He is al...

151: Anne Briggs from 2018-11-30T22:24:43

Our guest this week is Anne Briggs. Anne grew up on Montana and spent a lot of her young life abroad because her parents are missionaries. She majored in Chinese and Business hoping to become an in...

150: Michael Lorsung from 2018-11-23T10:00:14

Our guest this week is Michael Lorsung. Michael is a transmedia artist based in Snowmass Village, Colorado. He is a practicing artist, tinkerer, and experimenter who also works full time managing t...

149: Trey Ratcliff from 2018-11-20T00:23:56

Our guest this week is Trey Ratcliff. Trey is a photographer, artist, writer and adventurer. Each day, Trey posts a new photo to his website, StuckInCustoms.com, the #1 Travel Photography blog. His...

148: Jeri Ellsworth from 2018-11-09T18:33:08

Our guest this week is Jeri Ellsworth. Jeri is an inventor, entrepreneur and amateur scientist. Her career started when she dropped out of high school and formed a business building, selling and ra...

147: Elan Lee from 2018-11-02T18:44:07

Our guest this week is Elan Lee. Elan is a professional game designer. He is a co-creator of Exploding Kittens, the most backed crowdfunded project in history. And before that, he was Chief Design ...

146: April Wilkerson from 2018-10-26T17:53:40

Our guest this week is April Wilkerson. April is a maker who started building stuff out of necessity, but then it turned into a passion, and now it's her full-time job. Anything she needs, she figu...

145: Saul Griffith from 2018-10-19T21:57:23

Our guest this week is Saul Griffith. Saul is a compulsive user of tools, he works across disciplines with a focus of making tools and technologies that help us solve climate change. Consequently, ...

144: Laura Cochrane from 2018-10-12T18:33:02

Our guest this week is Laura Cochrane. Laura Cochrane is a content strategist living in Berkeley, California. She currently works at NEO.LIFE, a biotech publication. Before that, she was an editor ...

143: Carl Bass from 2018-10-08T18:12:42

Our guest this week is Carl Bass. Carl has been designing and making buildings, boats, sculpture, and machinery for the last 40 years. He is the former CEO of Autodesk and now spends his time resea...

142: Anita Sarkeesian from 2018-09-28T17:25:16

Our guest this week is Anita Sarkeesian. Anita is a media critic and the host of Feminist Frequency Radio. She has a new book Called History vs Women, which she wrote with Ebony Adams.

For...

141: Steven Levy from 2018-09-21T21:15:15

Our guest this week is Steven Levy. Steven writes about technology. He’s editor at large at Wired and his books include Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life and In the Plex.

For show notes vi...

140: Bran Ferren from 2018-09-14T19:32:18

Our guest this week is Bran Ferren. Bran is the former President of Research and Development of Walt Disney Imagineering and is now the Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds, which he co-founded ...

139: Adam Fisher from 2018-09-07T18:40:34

Our guest this week is Adam Fisher. Adam grew up in Silicon Valley, playing Atari, programming computers and reading science fiction. He still lives in the Bay area, but now spends his time thinkin...

138: Steve Lodefink from 2018-08-31T20:08:47

Our guest this week is Steve Lodefink. Steve is a software User Experience designer by day, and a tinker and maker of things by night. As a contributing author Make and Craft magazines, and blogger...

137: Michael Dubno from 2018-08-24T09:00:18

Our guest this week is Michael Dubno. Michael is a former Wall Street CIO/CTO and a software developer. He's an inventor, artist, welder, machinist, polar explorer, photographer, roboticist, tech e...

136: Larry A from 2018-08-17T20:37:20

Our guest this week is Larry A. Larry is a longtime subscriber to Cool Tools and an occasional contributor. He's an engineer who loves technology, and who sees things differently and in more depth ...

135: Dan Dubno from 2018-08-10T22:19:19

Our guest this week is Dan Dubno. Dan is an Emmy Award winning journalist, technologist, curator, and founder of nonprofit organizations. At CBS News, he developed many new technologies that have c...

134: Rose Eveleth from 2018-08-03T21:05:57

Our guest this week is Rose Eveleth. Rose is a Rose Eveleth. Rose is a writer and producer based in Berkeley who explores how humans tangle with science and technology. She's the creator and host o...

133: Theodore Gray from 2018-07-27T21:08:55

Our guest this week is Theodore Gray. Theodore is the co-founder of Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha. He's also the founder of App publisher Touch Press and the author of m...

132: Danielle Baskin from 2018-07-20T22:00:22

Our guest this week is Danielle Baskin. Danielle is an entrepreneur, painter, and performance artist based in San Francisco. She's created internet jokes, like Custom Avocados and Drone Sweaters. S...

131: Alex Glow from 2018-07-13T20:51:24

Our guest this week is Alex Glow. Alex creates electronics videos and tutorials at Hackster.io in San Francisco; she loves building wearable tech, EEG, music, bikes, holograms, and more. Alex grew ...

130: Tom Fassbender from 2018-07-06T20:21:15

Our guest this week is Tom Fassbender. Tom is a writer and former publisher of books and comics and a traveler who, along with his wife and two daughters, ventured on a yearlong trip around the wor...

129: Jake Von Slatt from 2018-06-29T17:29:39

Our guest this week is Jake von Slatt. Jake von Slatt is someone that delights making things. Hours spent in the workshop are a meditation, an end unto themselves. This results in adventures that J...

128: Dan Ruderman from 2018-06-22T22:21:04

Our guest this week is Dan Ruderman. Dan is a physicist and technologist. He is faculty at the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, where he applies machine learning to individuali...

127: Becky Stern from 2018-06-15T21:06:32

Becky is a Content Creator at Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's cr...

126: Charles Platt from 2018-06-08T09:00:05

Our guest this week is Charles Platt. Charles has written science-fiction novels, computer books, and books about electronics, including Make: Electronics, which is a best-seller in its field. He w...

125: Tod Kurt from 2018-05-31T21:33:35

Our guest this week is Tod E. Kurt. Tod runs ThingM, an IoT device studio in Pasadena. He is creator of the blink(1) USB notification light and BlinkM Smart LED. He co-founded CRASH Space, a Los An...

124: Kishore Hari from 2018-05-25T22:30:49

Our guest this week is Kishore Hari. Kishore is a scientist/science educator who's been building science events for the last decade, but he really sees himself as a community organizer for science....

123: Scotty Allen from 2018-05-18T20:03:34

Our guest this week is Scotty Allen. Scotty is a nomadic engineer, entrepreneur, adventurer and storyteller who orbits around San Francisco and Shenzhen, China. He runs a YouTube channel Strange Pa...

122: Kari Byron from 2018-05-11T17:36:41

Our guest this week is Kari Byron. Kari is best known for her role as a host on Discovery’s flagship show Mythbusters. Since then she has gone on to host and produce shows spanning several networks...

121: Talin from 2018-05-04T18:49:37

Our guest this week is Talin. Talin is a “recovering game programmer” whose career spans 25 years, stretching from the early years of personal computing to more recent games like Sim City 4 and The...

120: Grant Thompson from 2018-04-27T22:21:59

Our guest this week is Grant Thompson. Grant was an airline pilot when he started posting videos of his crazy science experiments and DIY projects. His channel became wildly popular for making scie...

119: Bob Clagett from 2018-04-19T21:08:07

Our guest this week is Bob Clagett. Bob loves making stuff. He loves showing other people how he works to hopefully inspire them and empower them to make whatever is that they're passionate about.<...

118: Michael Borys from 2018-04-13T19:36:09

Our guest this week is Michael Borys. He is a designer who creates experiences for the entertainment industry. He is currently the Vice President of Interaction and Game Design at 42 Entertainment,...

117: Matt Blum from 2018-04-05T22:17:57

Our guest this week is Matt Blum. Matt is a dad, a geek, and a software engineer, who’s been writing for and editing the GeekDad blog for almost 11 years. He foresees the day soon when he’ll need t...

116: Koichi from 2018-03-27T21:19:17

Our guest this week is Koichi. Koichi started Tofugu, a blog to help people get to Japan and have a good time once they get there, and WaniKani, a kanji learning program that uses mnemonics, SRS, a...

115: Zach Supalla from 2018-03-16T20:55:07

Our guest this week is Zach Supalla. Zach is the CEO and one of the founders of Particle, the most widely-used IoT platform. Particle is used by more than 140,000 developers and 8,500 companies to ...

114: Scott Smith from 2018-03-08T23:06:34

Our guest this week is Scott Smith. Scott is a critical futurist and founder of Changeist, where he leads strategy and research. His work taps over 20 years’ experience tracking social, tech and ec...

113: Madeline Ashby from 2018-02-28T22:48:07

Our guest this week is Madeline Ashby. Madeline is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. Her most recent novel, Company Town, was a finalist for the 2017 CBC Books Canada Reads p...

112: JD Roth from 2018-02-23T21:56:45

Our guest this week is J.D. Roth started blogging in 1997, before "blog" was even a word. In 2006, he founded GetRichSlowly.org, a site devoted to common-sense personal finance. He sold Get Rich Sl...

111: Nelson Dellis from 2018-02-15T22:57:41

Our guest this week is Nelson Dellis. Nelson is one of the leading memory experts in the world, traveling around the world as a Memory Consultant and Keynote Speaker. A four-time USA Memory Champio...

110: Kevin Rose from 2018-02-09T00:12:44

Our guest this week is Kevin Rose. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur and product builder, having founded the social news site Digg in 2004. Later Kevin pursued a career in venture investing, investing...

109: Dean Putney from 2018-02-02T18:45:41

Our guest this week is Dean Putney. Dean is the founding software engineer at laser cutter startup Glowforge in Seattle. Previously he wrote software for organizations like Reddit, IDEO, Boing Boin...

108: Claudia Dawson from 2018-01-25T23:49:17

Our guest this week is Claudia Dawson. Claudia works with Kevin in his studio in Pacifica, California. She manages the Cool Tools website and produces and co-writes Recomendo, our weekly newsletter...

107: Ruben Bolling from 2018-01-19T21:36:54

Our guest this week is Ruben Bolling. Ruben is the author of the award-winning comic strip, Tom the Dancing Bug, which premieres each week on Boing Boing.

For show notes visit: http://kk.o...

106: Jane Frauenfelder from 2018-01-11T23:13:54

Our guest this week is Jane Frauenfelder. Jane was born and raised in Southern California, she co-hosted a podcast called Apps For Kids for two and a half years, and now attends a robotics academy ...

105: Gareth Branwyn from 2018-01-05T19:13:51

Our guest this week is Gareth Branwyn. Gareth has been writing about DIY technology, media and culture for over three decades. He's the former senior editor of "Boing Boing," a founding contributin...

104: Barbara Dace from 2017-12-22T20:57:04

Our guest this week is Dr. Barbara Dace. Barbara has been a compounding pharmacist for 32 years, creating custom medications, educating pharmacy students as well as the public, and improving health...

103: Andreas Antonopoulos from 2017-12-22T20:11:25

Our guest this week is Andreas Antonopoulos. Andreas is an acclaimed author, speaker, educator, and one of the world's foremost Bitcoin and open blockchain experts. Andreas makes complex subjects a...

102: Carol Tilley from 2017-12-15T21:30:44

Our guest this week is Carol Tilley. Disguised as a mild-mannered Midwestern library and information science professor, Carol Tilley is actually the Comics Crusader, whose 2013 research debunked ev...

101 Norm Chan from 2017-12-08T00:45:17

Our guest this week is Norm Chan. Norm is the co-founder and editor of Tested.com, a website and YouTube channel celebrating the interesting intersections of technology, science, art and the maker ...

100: Jen Pahlka from 2017-12-01T19:46:31

Our guest this week is Jennifer Pahlka. Jennifer is the Founder of Code for America, a nonprofit dedicated to proving that government can work for all people in the digital age. She served as the U...

99: A.J. Jacobs from 2017-11-22T21:07:23

Our guest this week is A.J. Jacobs. A.J. is the author of four New York Times best sellers including The Year Of Living Biblically, and The Know-It-All. CBS will be airing a sitcom based on The Yea...

98: Matt Velderman from 2017-11-16T20:40:23

Our guest this week is Matt Velderman. He's a DYIer, an engineer, inventor, and he leads Stanley Black & Decker's Breakthrough Innovation Group.

97: Jim Beloff from 2017-11-10T19:36:24

Our guest this week is Jim Beloff. Jim is the author of The Ukulele : A Visual History, and with his wife Liz publishes the popular Jumpin' Jim's series of ukulele songbooks, including The Daily Uk...

96: David Lang from 2017-11-03T22:16:10

Our guest this week is David Lang. David Lang is an entrepreneur, writer, and National Geographic Fellow. In 2012, along with Eric Stackpole, he co-founded OpenROV to create a low-cost robot to exp...

95: Andrea James from 2017-10-27T17:56:54

Our guest this week is Andrea James. Andrea is a writer, director, producer, and activist. Her last film, Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy, aired on SHOWTIME. She's developing a talk show called Conversations...

94: Simon Quellen Field from 2017-10-20T21:04:53

Our guest this week is Simon Quellen Field. Simon is a chemist and former Google software engineer and is the author of over a dozen books, including Gonzo Gizmos, Return of Gonzo Gizmos, Culinary ...

93: Nicole Harkin from 2017-10-13T21:10:25

Our guest this week is Nicole Harkin. Nicole lives in Washington, DC with her family. She recently published her first book, Tilting: A Memoir, and she’s currently working on a mystery set in Berli...

92: Rebecca Romney from 2017-10-06T18:25:48

Our guest this week is Rebecca Romney. Rebecca is a rare book dealer at Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn. She got her start with Bauman Rare Books, managing their Las Vegas gallery. She is known...

91: Craig Mod from 2017-09-27T20:42:31

Our guest this week is Craig Mod. Craig is a writer and designer. He's worked extensively with Silicon Valley and Japanese start ups. He spends about two months each year walking the old pilgrimage...

90: Wendy Frauenfelder from 2017-09-21T20:24:50

Our guest this week is Wendy Frauenfelder. Wendy likes to cook, fix things, pretend to be a bartender, and do therapy dog work. She also is fascinated with wild yeast and slow food.

89: Greg Gage from 2017-09-13T22:51:49

Our guest this week is Greg Gage. Greg is the co-founder and CEO of Backyard Brains, a company started with Tim Marzullo as neuroscience graduate students at the University of Michigan. Greg is a p...

88: Ben Baker from 2017-09-06T20:59:19

Our guest this week is Ben “Gitty” Baker. Ben fell in love with the idea that anyone, anywhere can build their own musical instrument and make music on it. His company was founded to spread that me...

87: Xeni Jardin from 2017-08-29T17:45:36

Our guest this week is Xeni Jardin. Xeni is my partner at Boing Boing. We've been friends for a really long time, and Xeni has been with me from the very beginning at Boing Boing. She is always com...

86: Louis Rossetto from 2017-08-23T21:32:37

Our guest this week is Louis Rossetto. Louis co-founded Wired with his life partner Jane Metcalfe. During his five years directing Wired, it won the National Magazine Awards for General Excellence ...

85: Rob Reid from 2017-08-16T21:42:01

Our guest this week is Rob Reid. Rob is the New York Times bestselling author of novels including Year Zero and the freshly-released After On. A longtime entrepreneur, he founded Listen.com, which ...

84: Adam Rubin from 2017-08-09T20:00:03

Our guest this week is Adam Rubin. Adam is the New York Times best-selling author of Dragons Love Tacos, Robo-Sauce, and half a dozen other critically-acclaimed picture books. He is also a world-re...

83: Rich Roat from 2017-08-02T23:13:02

Our guest this week is Rich Roat. After picking up a degree in communication from the University of Delaware, Rich held a number of odd jobs such as communications associate for United Way of Delaw...

82: Noah Thorp from 2017-07-26T20:56:45

Our guest this week is Noah Thorp. Noah is founder of a tech innovation network called CoMakery. Previously, he co-founded a holacratic blockchain prototyping studio. He was the VP of Engineering ...

81: Brad Templeton from 2017-07-19T20:07:33

Brad Templeton is founding faculty for Computing & Networks at Singularity University, and Chairman Emeritus and futurist of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading cyberspace civil r...

80: Will Smith from 2017-07-12T19:31:31

Our guest this week is Will Smith. Will is a journalist turned entrepreneur. He was the editor-in-chief of Maximum PC magazine, founder of Tested.com, and is currently working on VR software. He ha...

79: Collin Cunningham from 2017-07-05T22:09:08

Our guest this week is Collin Cunningham. Collin's an experimentalist at heart. His love for discovery has led him to explore the worlds of video, sound, art, and technology. He's created multiple ...

78: Donald Bell from 2017-06-28T22:31:20

Our guest this week is Donald Bell. Donald runs a great website called Maker Project Lab, and he also hosts a weekly YouTube show called Maker Update, which collects interesting projects, news, tip...

77: Tim Ferriss from 2017-06-20T23:29:36

Our guest this week is Tim Ferriss. Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People" and one of Fortune's "40 under 40." He is an early-stage technology invest...

76: Nick Bilton from 2017-06-12T22:36:59

Nick Bilton is a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair and author of 3 books, including Hatching Twitter and his latest, American Kingpin, which chronicles the rise and fall of the Silk Road and th...

75: Eri Gentry from 2017-05-04T19:21:19

Our guest this week is Eri Gentry. Eri is the founding president of BioCurious. It's the first hackerspace for biology, and she's also a research manager at the Institute for the Future. Some inter...

74: Simone Giertz from 2017-04-17T20:09:30

Our guest this week is Simone Giertz. Simone is a Swedish native who now resides in San Francisco. Millions of people come to watch her build shitty robots on YouTube and she recently launched her ...

73: Danielle Applestone from 2017-03-20T21:16:43

Our guest this week is Danielle Applestone. Danielle is a material scientist, co-founder and CEO of Other Machine Co., the leading manufacturer of high-precision desktop CNC milling machines. Forme...

72: Dale Dougherty from 2017-03-02T22:58:28

Our guest this week is Dale Dougherty. Dale is the founder and CEO of MAKE, which produces MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire, in addition to books and kits for makers young and old. He lives in Sebasto...

71: Robyn Miller from 2017-02-07T20:55:20

Our guest this week is Robyn Miller. Robyn co-founded Cyan Worlds in the late 1980s, where he designed and directed the landmark video games Myst and its sequel Riven. In 2010, he co-founded Zoo Br...

70: Eric Moore from 2017-01-19T20:40:42

Our guest this week is is Eric Moore. Eric is the IT manager at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. He previously worked for Apple in its Information Systems and Technology Department. Having gr...

69: Danny Haeg from 2016-12-29T22:45:45

Our guest this week is Danny Haeg. Danny is currently the Director of Creative Collisions at the Tech Museum in San Jose, California. He moved here from Minnesota to jump into the simmering maker-m...

68: Alan Henry from 2016-12-13T18:18:43

Our guest this week is Alan Henry. Alan is the editor in chief of LifeHacker, a site that offers tips, tricks, and downloads to help people live their best, most productive, and most fulfilling li...

67: Arion Paylo from 2016-11-22T20:36:57

Our guest this week is Arion Paylo, the son of an artist and carpenter, Arion was initially drawn to the keyboard instead of the table saw. After 11 years at Apple he's gone from thinking about how...

66: David Pescovitz from 2016-11-09T22:59:35

Our guest this week is David Pescovitz. David is co-editor and managing partner of Boing Boing and a research director at Institute for the Future.

65: Paolo Salvagione from 2016-10-27T19:17:34

Our guest this week is Paolo Salvagione, an artist who works at the intersection of engineering, participation, and levity. He has sent his studio visitors out a one second-story window and back in...

64: Ron Hale-Evans from 2016-10-13T19:51:19

Our guest this week is Ron Hale-Evans, the open source software blog, Planeta Diego: Linux Y Software Libre, once described Ron as "writer by profession, game designer by vocation and psychologist ...

63: Luke Khanlian, Long Now Clock Engineer from 2016-09-20T23:10:53

Our guest this week is Luke Khanlian. Luke is a Design Engineer working on a mechanical clock intended to tick for 10,000 years. Starting as a mechanic’s apprentice at age 15, he began to accumulat...

62: Tim O'Reilly from 2016-09-10T18:12:15

Our guest this week is Tim O'Reilly. He's the founder of O'Reilly Media, a company the spreads the knowledge of innovators through technology books, online services, magazines, research, and tech c...

61: Jerry Michalski from 2016-08-30T19:28:51

Our guest this week is Jerry Michalski, who spent a dozen years as a tech-industry analyst during the dot-com era, then founded a think tank called REX in 2010 after figuring out that consumer capi...

60: Star Simpson from 2016-08-03T20:58:20

Our guest this week is Star Simpson. She is an electronics designer whose greatest joy is designing objects and tools that are useful to others, which inspire and delight. Her previous work include...

59: Hugh Howey from 2016-07-28T18:20:35

Our guest this week is Hugh Howey. Hugh is the New York Times bestselling author of WOOL, SAND, BEACON 23, and over a dozen other novels. He lives on a catamaran he custom built in South Africa and...

58: Tim Ferriss from 2016-07-06T21:23:05

Our guest this week is Tim Ferriss. He's an entrepreneur, angel investor, and public speaker, and the author of several best-selling books, including "The 4-Hour Workweek," "The 4-Hour Body," and "...

57: Adam Savage from 2016-06-24T22:13:50

Our guest this week is Adam Savage. Adam was the co-host of Mythbusters and editor-in-chief of Tested.

56: Brian Brushwood from 2016-06-08T19:34:30

Our guest this week is Brian Brushwood. Brian is is the creator and host of over 400 episodes of Discovery’s “Scam School,” with over one million subscribers on YouTube. In 2015, his first full sea...

55: Dan Benjamin from 2016-05-23T20:45:25

Dan Benjamin is a podcaster, writer, software developer, and ex-corporate stooge. He is the founder of 5by5, a podcast network where he hosts a handful of shows. He is the author of baconmethod.com...

54: Jane Metcalfe from 2016-05-17T19:24:43

Jane Metcalfe started Wired Magazine with her life partner Louis Rossetto, and Kevin and I had the honor of working with her during those glory days. More recently Jane was the President of TCHO Ch...

53: Chris Anderson from 2016-05-10T21:09:54

Chris Anderson is the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. From 2001 through 2012 he was Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Before Wired he was with The Economist for seven years in London...

52: Joshua Schachter from 2016-04-29T18:48:31

Joshua Schachter is the creator of the social bookmarking site, Delicious, the creator of GeoURL, and the co-creator of Memepool.

51: Rose Eveleth from 2016-04-26T21:25:01

Rose Eveleth is a journalist who covers how humans tangle with science and technology. She's the host and producer of Flash Forward, a podcast about the future, and has covered everything from fake...

50: Rick Lax from 2016-04-15T22:53:51

Rick Lax created the TV show “Wizard Wars” and has written several books on deception. He’s a non-practicing lawyer, a former MENSA member, and now spends his time creating tricks for other magicia...

49: Meara O'Reilly from 2016-04-01T21:30:01

Meara O'Reilly is a sound artist and educator, most recently in residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. She is co-creator of the Rhythm Necklace app, a musical sequencer that uses two-dime...

48: Andy Baio from 2016-03-25T20:05:55

Andy Baio loves making things online. He’s written waxy.org for the last 13 years, helped build Kick Starter, and organizes XOXO — an independent art tech festival in Portland. His upcoming project...

47: Matthew Schutte from 2016-03-18T20:05:34

Matthew Schutte is a San Francisco-based big wave surfer, privacy advocate, political philosopher and innovation consultant. He’s the co-founder of Collaborative Advantage where he helps companies ...

46: Sean Michael Ragan from 2016-02-24T22:04

Sean Michael Ragan is a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. His work has also appeared in ReadyMade, Popular Science, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the co-founder of Found...

45: Matt Haughey from 2016-01-21T01:13:01

Matt Haughey is the creator of MetaFilter, and the co-creator of Fuelly, among many other sites. He spends his free time shooting photos and also rides and races bikes. These days, he works on the ...

44: Gareth Brawnwyn, former Editorial Director of MAKE from 2016-01-05T23:50:34

Our guest this week is Gareth Branwyn, Gareth is the former Editorial Director of MAKE. He was also the senior editor at bOING bOING print, a section editor at Mondo 2000, and a Wired contributing ...

43: Mythbusters' Tory Belleci from 2015-11-30T20:56:46

Our guest this week is Tory Belleci. Tory is best known as the daredevil of MythBusters, and can build just about anything. He has worked with Industrial Light and Magic on films such as: Star Wars...

42: Evil Mad Scientist Lenore Edman from 2015-11-07T00:21:08

Our guest this week is Lenore Edman. Lenore is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, an open source hardware, hobby electronics, and robotics company. She likes projects at the interse...

41: Tara Tiger Brown from 2015-10-15T20:33:41

Tara Tiger Brown is the founder of the nonprofit organization LA Makerspace, the premier STEAM service provider for the Los Angeles Public Library. She’s also the co-founder of Kithub, creative ele...

40: Andrew Leonard, Writer from 2015-10-03T17:28:22

Our guest this week is Andrew Leonard (twitter @koxinga21). Andrew is a journalist who writes features for San Francisco magazine, Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone and other outlets. He previously wrot...

39: Glenn Fleishman, Writer from 2015-09-27T22:58:07

Glenn Fleishman is a Seattle-based technology journalist, and two-time winner on Jeopardy! He’s a senior contributor at Macworld, regularly writes for The Economist, and pens stories about parking ...

38: Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit Industries from 2015-09-21T23:37:18

Limor Fried is an MIT engineer and founder of Adafruit, a company she founded in 2005 with the goal to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products fo...

37: Jesse Genet from 2015-09-11T23:43:13

Jesse Genet is the CEO and Founder of Lumi, a company that makes it easy to order custom manufactured goods online, like rubber stamps, silkscreen kits and decals. Jesse's picks this week follow th...

36: Ryan Holiday from 2015-09-07T22:47:46

Ryan Holiday is a well respected marketing guru, media strategist and author. He spearheaded viral marketing campaigns as Director of Marketing for American Apparel and has produced several world r...

35: Jimmy DiResta from 2015-08-17T15:56:42

Jimmy DiResta is a maker, toy designer, and TV show host. He’s been the host of a number of DIY shows including Dirty Money, Trash to Cash, Against the Grain, and Hammered with John and Jimmy DiRes...

34: Ziya Tong from 2015-08-10T05:05:34

Ziya Tong is host and producer of the television program Daily Planet, Canada's daily science show, which airs on Discovery Canada. Before that, Ziya was host and field producer for Wired Science, ...

33: Windell Oskay from 2015-08-02T16:22

Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007. Evil Mad Scientist ...

32: Zander Rose from 2015-07-26T04:01:53

Alexander "Zander" Rose is the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, which was founded in 1996 to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution that fosters very-long-term plann...

31: Jared Zichek from 2015-06-30T00:07:11

Jared Zichek is owner of Goldenagefigurines.com, which produces limited edition hand painted resin figurines of selected superhero, science fiction, and horror characters from the Golden Age of Com...

30: Andrew Mayne: Magician, Author, Inventor from 2015-06-29T23:29:20

Our guest this week is Andrew Mayne. He is a magician, maker, and the author of five bestselling mystery and thriller novels. He’s the star of A&E's magic reality show Don't Trust Andrew Mayne, and...

29: Ben Krasnow, Maker and YouTube Star from 2015-06-29T23:10:41

Ben works at Google[x], Google’s semi-secret technology development facility, where he creates advanced prototypes. Ben previously developed virtual reality hardware at Valve. After work, he spends...

28: John Edgar Park, Producer at Disney Research from 2015-04-14T00:19:03

John is a maker, technical/artistic problem solver, teacher, builder of quirky electro-mechanical contraptions, husband, and father of two. He hosted the Make: Television series on PBS, has worked ...

27: Douglas Coupland, author, artist, inventor from 2015-04-09T00:30:46

Our guest this week is Douglas Coupland. Since 1991, Douglas has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England's Royal Shakespeare Company and is a r...

26: Bob Parks, freelance writer from 2015-04-02T23:21:59

Bob Parks is a freelance magazine writer who lives in Vermont. He writes for Popular Science, Runner’s World, and Bloomberg Businessweek. In his spare time he does projects with his two children an...

25: Mark Krawczuk, creative instigator from 2015-03-18T20:24:30

Mark Krawczuk calls himself a creative instigator: he is either coming up with interesting things for people to experience, or he is helping creative people do interesting things. Mark throws all s...

24: Simone Davalos, roboticist from 2015-03-12T22:05:31

Simone Davalos has a long and storied history of aspiring to being a technological reprobate. For many years she settled for moving people to terrified delight with competitions and events involvin...

23: Mike Evans, Secret Dad Society from 2015-03-05T01:47:26

Children at heart rejoice! Mike Evans has a list for you (and your kids) that will have you playing and learning with a selection of entertaining guides and tools. Mike's picks reduce the initial l...

22: Laura Welcher, Director of Operations of the Long Now Foundation from 2015-02-18T22:28:21

This week Laura Welcher joins us. Laura is a Linguist, Director of Operations for the Long Now Foundation and volunteer at the Global Lives Project.

21: Erik Knutzen, urban homesteader from 2015-02-11T19:33:03

This week Erik Knuzten, co-author of Urban Homestead:Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World joins us with a list of m...

20: Matt Cutts, Head of Web Spam Team at Google from 2015-02-04T00:10:53

Our guest this week, Matt Cutts, is a well-known blogger and the head of the Web Spam team at Google.

19: Peter Rojas, founder of Gizmodo from 2015-01-19T00:41:55

Peter Rojas is the founder Engadget, gdgt and Gizmodo. He is currently co-hosts MVP, a podcast about new tech products, alongside Ryan Block, a former guest on our show. Peter focused his picks for...

18: Tom Merritt, tech journalist and podcaster from 2014-12-19T20:50:56

Tom Merritt's tool selections emphasize streamlining complex or time consuming tasks for maximum efficiency. If you are interested in tools that will shave precious minutes off your schedule, Tom's...

17: Ryan Block, co-founder of Engadget from 2014-12-11T21:49:46

Our guest this week is Ryan Block. He’s the co-founder of gdgt, and the co-founder and former editor of Engadget. These days he is VP of Product at Aol, and is co-host of MVP, a show about technolo...

16: Brett Doar, Multidisciplinary Artist from 2014-12-04T23:45:41

Brett Doar, an artist/maker renowned for his Rube Goldberg machines, shows us some little tools that can make a big impact. He cites both a penny and the humble paperclip as his two most valuable t...

015: Co-founder of Quantified Self, Gary Wolf from 2014-11-24T00:24:02

In this week's episode of the Cool Tools Show, Gary Wolf, Co-founder of Quantified Self, shows us how his favorite Quantified Self inspired apps help him stay consistent, motivated and aware about ...

014: Sword and Laser Host, Veronica Belmont from 2014-11-11T23:27:59

This week Veronica Belmont stops by to share some of the tools that make her life as a professional podcaster for the show Sword & Laser a little easier: Patreon and Levelator. She also recommends ...

013: Bestselling Author and Entrepreneur, Seth Godin from 2014-11-01T04:28:41

Seth Godin enlightens us this week with an unexpected assortment of tools that will have you exploring the deepest recesses of your subconscious while, at the same time, enriching your hobbies and ...

012: Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani from 2014-10-20T20:50:11

Lifehacker founder and ThinkUp co-founder, Gina Trapani introduces us to a few web based apps that offer elegant design and features well worth their minuscule price-points. Fans of an uncluttered ...