With his high school buddy, Adam Lowry created household cleaning products that are stylish, nice smelling, and kind to the environment. You may have seen his Method line at Target or Safeway stores. The cleaners are made with natural ingredients that are less toxic.

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Coffee lover Michelle Gass spends her days figuring out what others like about coffee. She got a chemical engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and now is senior vice president of marketing and category at the Starbucks Corp.

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Working for the SmithGroup architectural firm, Cynthia Cogil uses engineering to make buildings that are better for the environment. She helped design one that turns off the lights when it senses enough daylight coming in. Also, its roof collects water that gets filtered before coming out of the faucet. What’s more, the toilet doesn’t use water. Instead, chutes bring waste into a holding tank where it decomposes.

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Saul Griffith likes to create things — pretty cool things. He invented low-cost eyeglass lenses that can mold into various shapes within 10 minutes to correct people’s vision.

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Music fans can rock out with virtual guitars on an interactive wall, thanks to a touch-screen technology that Jeff Han tinkered with. Most touch- screens, such as the ones at airport check-in kiosks, allow only one finger touch at a time. But Han’s large, multitouch screens can be activated by touching or sweeping several fingertips across the surface.

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