In a diner in Los Angeles, Mick Ebeling heard about a graffiti artist paralyzed by ALS -- unable to draw. Mick had no technical skills. No plan. No business case. He committed anyway.
That decision became the EyeWriter -- a communication device built from a pair of sunglasses and a duct-taped webcam -- that let Tempt One draw again for the first time in seven years.
That beautiful, limitless naivete isn't a flaw in Mick's approach. It's the whole methodology.
Founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs, Mick runs a DO Tank -- not a Think Tank. For two decades he has done the one thing most people won't: commit to solving an impossible problem before knowing how.
Named one of Fortune's World's 50 Greatest Leaders and the world's only 3× TIME Magazine Best Inventions recipient, he has built a prosthetics lab in war-torn Sudan, created a wearable that lets the deaf feel live music, and helped a terminally ill artist finish his final work.
He didn't get the memo that he wasn't supposed to pull it off. He never does.
Not Impossible is an innovation studio that demonstrates the capacity of mankind to make the impossible, not impossible. Not Impossible is composed of Not Impossible Labs, Not Impossible Institute, and the Not Impossible Foundation, all aligned in support of a collective mission to change the world through technology and story by addressing societal "absurdities."
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