| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 min. 58 sec.) ; 162965295 bytes |
| Summary |
Featuring a specially designed electric bike for postal workers; revolutionary advancement in the diagnosis of mental illness; and a new wheelchair design for any terrain.Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors showcases bright minds from across the country as they discover ingenious solutions to the problems of our lives. Inventions featured on the program: DELIVER-E TRIKE - by inventor Simon William from TASSimon William is a method inventor. When he set out to develop an electric bike for postal workers he wasn't content designing the invention from afar. Instead, Simon became a postie for 18 months in the hilly suburbs of Hobart, facing some of the most challenging terrain for a postie anywhere in Australia. On every run, a postie will make around 500 deliveries over 3 hours. In the city posties will often walk, but out in the suburbs they're bringing your mail on a motorbike.The Deliver-E Trike is a specially designed electric bike for postal workers. It is a three-wheeled all terrain vehicle ensuring stability at low speeds. The bike is also designed to tilt, so that posties can lean in close to mailboxes while making their deliveries. Best of all, the Deliver-E Trike is electric, so it is clean, green, and quiet.EVESTG - by inventors Brian Lithgow and Jayashri Kulkarni from VICCentral Nervous System disorders such as depression, schizophrenia and ADHD cost over $2 trillion globally every year and affect one in four people in their lifetime. Correctly diagnosing mental illness is a massive problem worldwide, which in itself causes great and often unnecessary distress to sufferers who are left without a diagnosis and treatment.EVestG is a revolutionary new diagnostic technique that measures the patterns of electrical activity in the brain's vestibular, or balance system, allowing doctors to dramatically fast-track the detection of mental and neurological illnesses. Developed at Monash University, this breakthrough invention has the possibility to fundamentally change the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness worldwide.PUSH N GLIDE - by inventor Graham Remnant from NSWMost of us don't even notice when we walk over rough or steep ground, we're lucky enough to have all-terrain feet without even realising. But for people in a wheelchair there will always be terrain that wheelchairs are not equipped to handle. Wheelchair users are also at risk of many other injuries from pushing the chairs, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, lacerations, injured hand and shoulder joints, torn ligaments, and blistering, just to name a few. The Push n Glide is a completely new wheelchair design. Rather than propelling the chair with the wheels, the invention uses two handles to move forward and reverse. The handles are angled for a natural and easily maintained action that is not stressful to wrists or shoulders. The design also provides more power, allowing the user to propel the chair across terrain that was previously impossible for wheelchairs to tackle |
| Notes |
Closed captioning in English |
| Event |
Broadcast 2010-06-02 at 20:00:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
| Subject |
Electric bicycles.
|
|
Equipment and supplies.
|
|
Inventions.
|
|
Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
|
|
Technological innovations.
|
|
Wheelchairs.
|
|
Australia.
|
| Form |
Streaming video
|
| Author |
Hobbs, Bernie, contributor
|
|
Kulkarni, Jayashri, contributor
|
|
Lithgow, Brian, contributor
|
|
O'loghlin, James, host
|
|
Remnant, Graham, contributor
|
|
Sahajwalla, Veena, contributor
|
|
William, Simon, contributor
|
|
Wood, Fiona, contributor
|
|
