Any tech-minded sort will flip over DK Publishing's Super Cool Tech. Designed to look like a laptop with a silver cover, metallic-edged pages, rounded corners and landscape orientation, this dynamic exploration of tech developments and inventions--present and future--overflows with excellent full-color photos, graphics and intriguing facts. Curious about ice hotels? (Hint: it involves "snice," a slushy mixture of snow and ice.) How about the Bio-Bus (runs on human waste), teleportation (scientists have already teleported small amounts of light energy 89 miles!) or colorful musical jellies (they change the electric field of a capacitor board, creating a sound that varies according to the shape, color and saltiness of the jelly)? The answers are all here.
Seven sections--Play, Move, Construct, Power, Live, Future and Reference--cover super-cool technology advances in the world today including smartwatches, hoverboards, 3-D printers, drones, underwater hotels and driverless cars, providing just enough information to tantalize and inspire. --Emilie Coulter, freelance writer and editor