Adam Savage

Adam Savage is the host of the Discovery Channel show MythBusters, which tests the strange and the impossible. He's also an industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, and actor. He's won two Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. His projects have included the development of the MythBusters cannon and the creation of the Adam Savage Eagle. Adam Savage is the host of the Discovery Channel show MythBusters, which tests the strange and the impossible. He's also an industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, and actor. He's won two Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. His projects have included the development of the MythBusters cannon and the creation of the Adam Savage Eagle. Adam Savage was born on July 15, 1967, in Somerville, Massachusetts. He grew up in the town of Arlington, Virginia, and graduated from George Mason University in 1991 with a degree in industrial design. Savage's first job was as a design engineer at a computer company, but he was never content with working within the confines of the traditional design process. In 1995, he founded the design firm Adam Savage Workshop, which specializes in creating innovative and unusual products, from prosthetic arms and legs to the Adam Savage Eagle, a remote-controlled helicopter that he designed and built. MythBusters is a Discovery Channel show that tests the strange and the impossible. The show's original hosts were Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, but they were replaced by Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci in 2007. The show has since been renewed for a tenth and final season, which is set to air in 2020.