World Maker Faire's mixed bag of inventions

Oct. 14, 2013
Scenes from World Maker Faire New York.

World Maker Faire, a two-day festival at New York’s Hall of Science (Queens, N.Y.), packed enough inventions and spectacles to live up to its title, “The Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth.” Make: magazine’s annual event piqued the curiosity of kids through sights and sounds that might have once seemed unimaginable. However, there are just too many to list, so we’ve picked our top six things we saw at the World Maker Faire. 

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