A Tour Of The Intellectual Ventures Lab In Bellevue

KUOW | By Ross Reynolds

Published March 18, 2014 at 1:44 PM AKDT

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Pablos Holman is an inventor and futurist at Intellectual Ventures. Behind him are boxes of mosquitoes destined to be targets for the laser mosquito zapper.

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Mosquito shootdown sequence.

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Vaccine cold chain device.

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The Modernist Cuisine Cooking Lab is where food meets science. The lab houses one of the most sophisticated research kitchens in the world, according to its website.

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Ross Reynolds goes on a tour of the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory in Bellevue with inventor and futurist Pablos Holman.

Holman's team projects include a laser that can quickly detect if a person has malaria, a cooler that can keep vaccines from going bad and the high tech kitchen — more like a science lab actually — used to produce Nathan Myrhvold's 51 pound, multi-volume "Modernist Cuisine" books.