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Featuring ideas that allow bicycle riders to easily shower and change at work; provide long durability for an artwork, whilst adding volume and brightness; allows an engine to operate at its most efficient setting.Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors is home to the best and brightest minds in Australia, combining creativity and skill to craft the inventions we all wish we'd thought of. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: engineer James Bradfield Moody, inventor and designer Sally Dominguez, and futurist and author Mark Pesce. Inventions featured on the program: GREEN POD - by inventors Mark Rossiter and Tim Ceolin from QLDThere are lots of great reasons to commute to work by bicycle. It's great exercise, wonderful for the environment, you can save heaps of money, and even avoid traffic jams so you can actually get to work on time! Yet bicycles are not commonly used for day to day transport in Australia. One of the many excuses used to avoid ditching the car for a bicycle is that most workplaces don't have appropriate facilities for people to shower on arrival. The employers say they can't afford to build new bathrooms and bike racks. And it isn't a good look showing up for work red-faced and covered in sweat. Mark Rossiter, just 25 years old, was studying in France when he caught the cycling bug. When he returned to Australia he began to think about all the obstacles that have prevented cycling from becoming as mainstream in Australia, and with the help of his architect friend Tim Ceolin, 24, they set about removing some of these barriers.The Green Pod is a self-contained module that allows bicycle riders to shower and change at work. All the plumbing and electrical elements are built in and ready to go, while the different configurations allow up to two showers, two change rooms and 28 lockers, all in the size of a car parking space. The unit is architecturally designed to maximise the use of space. If it is installed outdoors it can even incorporate solar panels for power. The Pod utilises an innovative self cleaning system which ensures users enjoy a high standard of sanitation without the cost of daily cleaning. SILK CANVAS - by inventors Evette Morgan and Diane Giusa from NSWPainting on silk requires normal paints to be mixed with a special fabric medium before being applied to the silk. Otherwise the colours will bleed into each other. Primers that are used to prepare a canvas are all specific to one medium. With the Silk Canvas you can apply any combination of paint mediums, be it oils, acrylics, watercolours, dyes and even ink, and they won't bleed. The invention is a layered material that is acid free, providing long durability for an artwork, whilst adding volume and brightness. D DRIVE - by inventor Stephen Durnin from QLDAll engines have an optimum speed at which they are most efficient. Conventional and automatic transmissions don't allow car and truck engines to operate at their peak efficiency. Every time you change gears you are wasting fuel. D Drive is an infinitely variable geared transmission, which allows an engine to operate at its most efficient setting whilst enabling the vehicle speed to be continuously varied to suit driving conditions |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-04-07 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Bicycles -- Design and construction.
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Canvas embroidery.
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Inventions.
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Motor vehicles -- Transmission devices, Automatic.
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Technological innovations.
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New South Wales.
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Queensland.
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Streaming video
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Ceolin, Tim, contributor
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Dominguez, Sally, contributor
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Durnin, Stephen, contributor
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Giusa, Diane, contributor
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Moody, James Bradfield, contributor
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Morgan, Evette, contributor
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O'loghlin, James, host
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Pesce, Mark, contributor
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Rossiter, Mark, contributor
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