After watching this series you may never look at ordinary objects in the same way again. A tube of toothpaste? Car tires? Tea bags? A lot of technology goes into even the simplest of consumer goods, and this program offers viewers a glimpse at just what that entails.

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Season 1621 of 20 Episodes

One family in America makes three quarters of the world's peppermint oil; making state-of-the-art, performance-enhancing tennis rackets.
Making a trombone; making traditional Spanish wineskins; turning smelly muddy peat into rejuvenating face cream.
Over 35 million people love to surf; a look at how they make the perfect board for catching waves; exploring how the world eats 10 million tonnes of butter per year.
How top race horses are delivered to their new owners; the creative methods that are used to photograph food.
How top race horses are delivered to their new owners; the creative methods that are used to photograph food.
Self-healing stainless steel is produced at one of the world's largest steel mills; cash is kept safe with uncrackable locks and the traditional Indian sugar, jaggery, is made to use in Ayurvedic medicine.
How geoduck, one of the world's weirdest seafood delicacies, is harvested; how a head of steam is built up on one of South Africa's oldest working trains; how water polo players are protected from injury.
One of the world's most exclusive luxury cars is built from carbon fiber and bullet-proof Kevlar; see how referees' whistles are made; learning how smoky flavor goes into Spanish paprika.
Discover how foundations are driven hundreds of metres into the ground; how English willow is turned into cricket bats for India's top players; how beautiful Spanish fans are handcrafted.
How a tractor is built every three minutes in order to power Indian agriculture; bronze bells are cast to help Swiss farmers keep track of their cows; how streets are lit to make roads safer.
How millions of real nests are collected to make bird's nest soup; aerospace technology makes rowers go faster; how Spanish flamenco castanets are created.
The power of the world's biggest engines are quadrupled with turbochargers; new roads are built from old plastic waste; one particular style of kite is the national symbol of Malaysia.
Looking at how they harness the wind to power a racing yacht to Olympic gold; how they make a sword fit for an officer at the world's largest sword factory.
Investigating how they make the amplifier used by rock legends, the famous Marshall amp; how they turn wet clay into frost-proof garden pots.
A look at the challenge of cleaning the windows of the Petronas Towers, the world's tallest twin towers; how jigsaw puzzle pieces are made to be unique; how Olympic field hockey sticks are crafted from fiberglass and Kevlar.
An investigation into how all the features of an apartment are put into a motorhome; sugar and fine art; ballet shoes.
An investigation into how huge amounts of mushrooms are made in the world's mushroom capital each year; life-saving gloves.
An investigation into mining a million tons of fertilizer from beneath the sea; how to hand-print colorful clothes using batik; natural syrup.
How basmati rice is turned into millions of microwaveable meals.
An investigation into a sensitive hearing aid developed by Swiss engineers; comfortable commuting; the art of shadow puppetry.
An investigation into the remote-controlled machines completing tasks too dangerous for human divers; handmade teddy bears; India's favorite cheese.

Chris Broyles, Jeff Wilburn, Iain Lee, Michael Pongracz, Mike Goral, Naz Osmanoglu

Making wood-burning stoves that bring warmth to the bleak Norwegian winter; building the synthesizer that changed music forever.
Assembling the reinvented Morgan 3 Wheeler; protecting firefighters' hands from heat, flame and chemical attack.
How they make wind turbines with twice the wingspan of a Boeing; how they mold car tires from the ooze of a tree.
How they make the tank piercing super bullet; how they forge the infamous torture weapon, the dentist's drill.

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