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>> i hear you've incorporated some electronics into your fashion scheme >> i went to visit this company up in boston. hah they're doing is creating microchips so small they can actually be worn on or even inside our bodies collecting all this data that we're generating all this time. >> but there's already all kinds of data that tells you how to eat a healthier life. like don't each french fries. but it doesn't help me stop eating them. >> but it might if you saw what it was doing to your body as you ate them.

>> mc 10 on the brink of revolutionizing wearable electronics. >> fundamentally i think it's going to change the way we think about our bodies. being able to naturally integrate electronics into our everyday lives we'll be able to understand our physiology into ways that were never possible before. >> we are heading over to the secret lab. it's not a secret lab. it's over at harvard where they're building these wearable electronics so they can monitor what's going on inside your body. >> let's do it. >> welcome to the mc 10 deleen room here at harvard. >> thank you. i feel like i'm in a nasa facility. what exactly is going on here? >> if you think about the tremendous innovation things have gotten smaller cheaper and faster but still fundamentally boxy and rigid. what mc 10 is about is taking

the electronics and conformling them to humans. we're manufacturing and pattern the -- >> microchips. >> right. >> the semi-process is really about putting down different layers. >> like a cooking show. you start with your doe and then you -- >> more or less. >> pizza. >> aradding different ingredients. removing some. >> can i? >> go ahead. you can see some of the patterns beginning to form. you can see blocks and you can see some spring like interconnects. and those are used to give the system stretch. >> welcome to mc 10. i can take you through some of the background on our technology. this limits what you can do with electronics. mc 10 takes the electronics out of this and makes it soft and bendable. >> so thin. >> step number two is --

>> can i touch it? >> sure. that's what we're about. >> stretchy. > and the last idea. allows you to build intelligence between those pieces. you've got bendable, stretchable. you can think about new -- >> i would love to see them. >> i'll follow you. >> this is an example of what the future of wearable sensing is going to look like. >> sure. >> biostamp is a a proprietary piece of electronics that provides information about anything from your temperature, brain activity, heart rate, muscle activity. and the combination of those pieces of information allow us to better understand better what's going on with our human physiology. >> kind of interesting. the implications of the technology that will collect all this data that's going on

in your body which on the one hand has a real potential for changing all kinds of medicine and health care. i kind of wonder about my insurance company. i mean sort of discover that i've been scarfing down t-bones at the rate of three a week and decide to cancel my coverage. >> the ability to transfer this into something that is stretchy, flexible. we may be wearing on our skin or clothing or perhaps in our bodies. what does that mean for health care, for patients? for doctors. >> you want it to happen in the background. the idea of having continuous pick up of information is you can get access only if and when you need it. >> clearly in a development stage right now. tell me about the steps from here to mass produced product. >> clearly we've done some excellent proto typing and gotten the attention of world class partners. the next step is to finish

developing the products. we're doing some interventional medical devices with partners like med tronic. so on the consumer side and sports and fitness there's a huge amount of focus on both optimizing performance but also reducing the risk of injury. so our product with reebok is a great first example. it's not a digenostic for a concussion it acts as an extra set of eyes on the field. >> i'm looking forward to checking out their work. >> can you show me a little bit of what you've been working on? >> sure. first i would like to introduce you to isiah. >> so can we see how this works? >> yeah. ow. i field bad for the dummy. u have a yellow moderate impact. >> you may want to get that looked at. the idea is to give data.

you said you sustained seven concussions? >> yeah. those are diagnosed. >> those are the ones i couldn't hide. >> that's something about being an athlete. you're not necessarily motivated to say i've sustained a concussion. >> there's an emotional investment of getting your place on the field. i want to play. >> i don't want to be taken out of the game. being able to change that behavior, keep your head out of impact in whatever sport you play. that is the real powerful thing that we have seen. >> so we're looking in this case at a hockey setup but this has applications to other sports. >> it's on. as it triggered yet? >> our vision is within five years from now everyone is going to be able to take advantage of thin electronics in the form of biostamp to change how they play sports to how they take care of their own

health giving people information about their own body. and we believe that consumers should have access to that information and should control that information themselves. >> i never knew that buy onic technology existed to a point where it was going to be used in my life. >> you really are seeing the birth of a buy onic industry. >> how does it feel to be taking steps right now? >> it's amazing.

>> the age of buy onic man is upon us. i vissitied and got to see

first-hand the suit that enables paralyzed people to walk. >> i imagine this is used in hospitals. does it have wider applications? >> it does. i spoke with somebody who wore the suit to the most important oment of their life. >> xo binics on the brink of overcoming paralysis. >> see the technology actually starting to make it to a point where it's affecting somebody is pretty powerful. >> i never knew that it existed to a point where it was going to be used this soon in my life. >> can you tell me about the technology that i'm looking at right now? the thing is walking on its own. >> we like to think of it as a wearable robot. it's been designed to help people with spinal cord injuries help people stand up and walk. we have a structure here that goes around. and then we have these electric act waitors that actually help move the user.

>> cut me about the genesis of the company? >> we started working at uc berkeley and spun the technology out of there. but the main impetus was to help soldiers with load carriage. two weeks after i started working on the project my brother who is a navy seal actually had an injury and broke his neck. so that planted the seed for injury and what it could do to help. that coupled with doctors seeing, they kept coming to us and saying you can help people walk again. >> so is there any way that i can tell actually test out the technology? >> so we always start with a walker. it gives us the most stability. then the first thing we're going to have to do is to slowly stand up. the robot is going to do all the work for your legs. so your knees and hips are going to be taken care of.

one, two, three. whoa! wow, that's such a weird sensation. it feels like it weighs nothing. >> exactly it goes all the way to the ground so you don't feel anything. >> if i'm a spinal cord patient today it's a great tool for helping them walk through a specified gate pattern. you're walking. as you progress through with the walker then we can graduate to crutches. >> it's a lot bigger than i expected too. >> we like to think of this as the first cell phone of the industry. so our goal is to make it smaller as we progress and as we get to that personal device it doesn't need all the features this has. we've got to keep pushing the technology for our users. they're counting on us to have that. >> so the first time i was able walk was a and

surreal experience. i was concentrating on how to walk. i never had to think about that before. in october 2008 i was in a motorcycle accident. i was involved in a head-on collision with a car. doctors said i had no chance of walking again. being a police officer being in the military i was always used to just up and running. always going. and so now i was relearning how to walk and was taken away from my moment of realizing how tall i was again and i was walking and my knees were bending. i had a heel strike. and it was with a robot. >> so can you explain how this whole system works? >> absolutely. i'm controlling each step with just a push of the button. in the back pack we have a computer and cell phone. our engineers can tap into the cell phone and communicates how

much step and the robot walking. the bulk is actually computer. these are the batteries. we have hip and knee motors. in his right hand we have our crutch interface so he can engage the walk cycle. >> initiate a walk. and then my first step. >> how does it feel to be taking steps right now? >> it's amazing. it's slower than my wheel chair but more gratifying. >> i understand you were actually able to walk down the aisle and stand at your own wedding. >> i didn't tell anybody that i was doing this. >> deep breath. >> my wife knew. but all my guests didn't know. so when things were delayed they were like getting antsy. >> did you get cold feet? >> exactly. i come walking out of the doors and there was just a roar. it's like maybe what a professional football player

feel when they go out on the field and the crowd is cheering. that's how i felt like i was a super star. >> we really have gone from a company doing research and development on science fiction stuff and built it to a manufacturing company. we're manufacturing robots in california. i think you really are seeing the birth of a buy onic industry. >> what's coming up? >> transitioning from spinal coward injury to general gathe. that can include stroke, mls. other issues where you have trouble walking. >> the goal always has been to translate from the rehab hospitals to the home. i really want to get outside of this more than i already have. i want to be able to walk over uneven terrain. get back out to my routes. outside. >> the dream is having that mobility device where people can go out and belly up to the bar with you and have a drink. >> this

>> if you think about building a house, you think about energy efficiency. there's a new company trying to take home building and efficiency to a new level. >> people have been thinking about reducing their energy bill for years. so other than their name what's

so unique about houz? >> they're trying to look at the entire package. not just the construction but the energy systems within it. and matt miller went down to houston to check it out. >> houz on the brink of commeshizing the zero energy home. >> i believe that what we're doing will revolutionize the home building industry. our mission is to make every home a zero energy home in america. that's smart and stronger. make it affordable, make it for the masses. we're building zero energy homes right here in independence heights, houston, texas, and using this as a model to duplicate across the united states. >> i see there are some houses in pretty bad shape around here. >> where we see

>> show me the way. >> all right. come in. >> so the power cell is kind of the basis innovation that off of which everything runs? >> this is an always on piece

of equipment. what this does is it generates all the electricity that the home needs. >> how does it work? >> it's a lot like your car in that it's got a piston driven engine inside. the engine turns a generator. and when it does that it's also providing all this heat that we're using in innovative ways. no reason to use electricity when we have this available. you can heat water. we want to partner with people that have products that can be manufactured the clsistnt with our solutions. so we would love to have a line of appliances that work with the way we're building these homes. >> one of the key pieces of equipment that we're going to put in we call it the aqua drive it's a closed-loop system that circulates water around the home so it gets hot by the

heat that comes off our power cell which you saw earlier. >> are we talking about steam heat with radiators? >> very similar to that but it's not steam. it's hot water. the power cell changes the game and makes the technology like this much more interesting and useful. with zero based the thinking on everything. piece by piece within the home. but we realize that to use better materials, technologies in the home we had to offset that somehow. and the only way to offset that is through a systems built approach. it's not one piece that makes it so interesting it's everything together in the way it works. we're bringing everything together. every relationship, every technology. we use a special formula spray foam that they created for us called house foam. >> you manufacture their insulation basically. >> we do. we're one of the largest manufacturers of spray foam for

construction in north america. the how product is the highest cutting edge technology available today. this is a great visual demonstration. it's hot air blowing into this lower cavity you can see where the spray foam is stopping the air flow from coming through. where with these products you can see the allowance of air penetration. these are measuring the temperatures. so not only does the spray foam eliminate the air infiltration it reduces the temperature by 30 to 40 degrees. >> can i get a chance at shooting the gun? >> we can make that happen. > let's do it. so that was a blast. literally. one of the first things i thought about when i was reading about these homes is i want one. you're not going to get electric bills.

you have designed them to have an ample amount of space. what are we talking about for the price? >> $225, $250,000 max. we felt like if we're going to go after the masses, that we're going to have to achieve a $250,000 or less price point. we are doing this at an affordable price point in a middle class neighborhood and making product and homes that regular people can live in and benefit from. >> when you look at the total cost of owning operating and maintaining the home it's less than renting. we come back a year from now we'll see this community has changed. we felt like we needed to build homes and demonstrate that these are better built homes, better performance homes but we always had the vision of delivering products that would

change any home. we are incubating new technologies that we are confident that manufacturers will want to take to market and help us mass produce. >> do you think in some sense houses like a blupet for what home build -- blueprint for what home builders will be doing in the future? >> it is. we believe that there's potential for er single home in america to be a net positive energy home.

♪ rachel: here goes nothing. >> we are finding it, we are testing it, we are there as they build it. we are on a quest to show you the most cutting edge companies on the brink of the future. rachel: tonight, i head to mexico to swim with the fish in a giant, mobile floating fish farm called an aqua pod. sam: i will check into palomar medical center, the hospital of the future. >> this is a living lab. rachel: we will take a road trip to volkswagen's green factory. matt: we are next with car manufacturer, right?