How Super Cool Tech Works

How does a holographic headset blend digital images with the real room around you? What makes an electric car move, a rocket travel, or a building span open space? How Super Cool Tech Works answers questions like these through a lively tour of inventions, engineering and ideas about what may come next.

From everyday gadgets to big ideas 💡

Across its themed sections, the book looks at technology on many scales: from tablets, smart watches and game consoles to hydroelectric dams, space exploration and the Large Hadron Collider. It also considers futuristic concepts such as artificial intelligence, quantum computers, flying cars and teleportation.

See the workings behind the wonder

Illustrations and concise, child-friendly explanations make the mechanisms behind each subject easier to picture. “How it works” panels help connect an exciting invention with the ideas and systems that make it possible—so readers can move beyond what a device does and begin to understand how it works.

A guided tour in six themes

The contents are arranged around Play, Move, Construct, Power, Live and Future. That structure takes readers from entertainment technology and new forms of transport to remarkable buildings, energy, life-supporting systems and possibilities still being imagined.

For curious young readers

Aimed at readers aged 9–12, this illustrated introduction offers plenty of subjects to browse, compare and discuss. It can appeal to children interested in science, engineering, inventions and the technology shaping everyday life—as well as to adults looking for an engaging book to explore together.

With its second-edition coverage spanning working devices and future-facing ideas, this is a book for readers who like asking the next question: What’s happening inside?