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This program is an homage to people who noodle outside the crate, dive outside the pool, rush in, headlong through the out door. It's about really clever people who invent, create, conceive. Some are on the inside and wear proper lab coats, work at universities, deliver power point presentations, receive grants, court venture capitalists and publish in peer reviewed journals. Others are on the fringe and toil in dank basements, and tool sheds, wear rumpled oil stained t-shirts, scrawl on the backs of envelopes, salvage at the wrecking yard and get spied on by their neighbours.
In this episode host Richard Syrett visits 3 different people with wildly different ideas on how to fix the energy crisis.
1) Roger Gordon has his ammonia-making machine, which he proposes is the cheapest and most effective way for us rid ourselves of carbon based fuel dependency. (he is the back yard tinkerer)
In this episode host Richard Syrett goes completely batty with echo-locater Daniel Kish. Blind since the age of 13 months Daniel has taught himself and countless others how to "echo-locate" using flash sonar techniques similar to bats and dolphins. He is a champion of self-directed discovery for blind children and a critic of those who don't "see" him as an equal.
We will also meet Ariel Garten. She is a Canadian artist, scientist, intellectual and the CEO of IntraXon, a tech company working in the field of thought-controlled computing. You may remember during the 2010 winter olympics in Vancouver people were controlling lights on the parliament building and CN Tower using their minds. Yep that was Ariels invention.
A Video of IntraXon
These include
- levitation of heavy objects.
- fusion of dissimilar materials such as metal and wood, while lacking any displacement.
- anomalous heating of metals without burning adjacent material.
- spontaneous fracturing of metals.
- changes in the crystalline structure and physical properties of metals.
- disappearance of metal samples.
We also meet Elizabeth Sharpf the founder of SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises) She is a Harvard Business School graduate, who instead of heading to Wall Street founded her company in hopes of solving a problem. That problem was an unspoken reality for many women in impoverished countries. Women couldn't afrord sanitary pads. The answer? - Banana Leaves.
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Sustainable Health Enterprises
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In this program we meet Dr. Ronald Mallet, a respected physicist and professor who's spent a lifetime working to build a time machine. We'll learn about his reasons for wanting to go back, and the limitations of his controversial theories.
]]>The largest organ on the human body is the skin. And yet, for some reason, our sense of touch is often overlooked. In this episode we meet two forward-thinking inventors, who are working to make better use of the sensory receptors in our skin
Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker works in the emerging field of haptic technology. She's developed computers that let people "feel" the pictures being displayed on a monitor. In addition to being used for surgical training, we'll hear how this technology could drastically improve gaming, and online shopping.
Our second guest is Dr. Frank Russo. Along with his team at Ryerson University's SMART LAB, Frank developed the Emoti-chair - a piece of furniture that creates new ways for deaf people to experience music.
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Katherine Kuchenbecker's Lab
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What do LED lights, mice, GOD, firepaste, cancer, blast blankets and grizzly bears have in common?
Absolutely nothing... Unless you're visiting Troy Hurtubise's laboratory.
In this inaugural episode of "Out of Their Minds," host and series creator Richard Syrett talks with Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise, better known as "Grizzly Man." We'll hear about Troy's latest invention The GOD Light, and we'll get the opinions of his supporters and detractors.
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Troy Hurtubise Wikipedia Entry
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