The 2010 Olympic medals are of particular interest because they are the first medals to be made out of recycled metals and circuit boards. They also look nothing like any other past medals. A Canadian mining company, Teck Resources, was able to harvest the necessary gold, silver, and bronze from the circuit boards of old computers, have them melted down, and cast back into what are now the Olympic medals. Motherboard speaks to the artists in Omer Arbel's studio, and gets a look at the making of the medals.

Watch the full episode about creating the 2010 Olympic Gold Medals on Motherboard.tv.

Motherboard Heads to Vancouver to interview the designers of the 2010 Olympic Games medals, Omer Arbel and Corrine Hunt. Arbel is an internationally acclaimed architect and industrial designer while Corrine is a First Nations artist from the Raven Gwa’waina clan of the Kwakwaka’wakw village on Vancouver Island.