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1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 1 sec.) ; 163177735 bytes |
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Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors brings you the best in new Australian inventions. From exciting innovations to eccentric designs, inventors across the country are working to improve the way we live. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: futurist and author Mark Pesce, science broadcaster Bernie Hobbs, and inventor and journalist Christine Kininmonth. Inventions featured on the program: RINO BLADE - by inventor Hayley Wilson from NSW. Motocross is a high performance all-terrain motorcycle sport. But it is dirty business. Many Motocross tracks are artificially made by depositing mounds of dirt in open areas and forming them to make a circuit with planned obstacles and jumps. As the rider jumps and flies across the mountainous track, they get covered in mud, and more importantly their motorbike does too. Every nook and cranny of the bike becomes infiltrated with up to 30kg of thick, caking mud, weighing the bike down and making it slower. The rider has to ditch the excess mud quickly if they want to get back up to speed, because there's no fame and glory in Motocross for coming last. At just 17 years of age, Hayley Wilson has become an inventor for extreme sports. Her father and brother both ride Motocross full time so she's been exposed to the sport all her life. They would constantly complain about the difficultly of removing mud from their bikes, and her mum was not especially keen on the chronic desecration of her kitchen spatulas either. The Rino Blade is a custom designed tool to remove mud from a motorbike. It has a flexible blade at one end and a hard serrated tip at the other, enabling it to remove all types of mud, thick, thin, wet or dry, from every contour and corner of a motorbike between and after races. INTELLIGYM - by inventor Andrew Oudyn from QLD. It always starts with the best of intentions, "I'm going to join a gym and get fit!" But it's rarely long before those lofty ambitions fall by the wayside. Part of the problem is the absence of feedback about what those 50 bench presses are actually doing for our bodies. Intelligym connects to pin load weight machines and uses sensors to give you accurate information about the exercise you are doing and how many calories you are burning as a result. At the end of the session, the data from your workout is logged in a central database so that you can see how you are improving over the weeks and months.EZI SHELF - by inventor Philip Hills from NSW. It can be impossible to find cheap mass produced shelves that fit exactly within your own space, but customised shelfing is expensive and will be the wrong shape and size if you move home. Ezi-Shelf is a unique shelving system that is easily configurable to different dimensions, both vertically and horizontally. The system is totally collapsible and can be erected by anyone in a matter of minutes |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-03-17 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Design -- Technological innovations.
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Furniture making -- Equipment and supplies.
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Gymnasiums -- Equipment and supplies.
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Inventions -- Competitions.
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Motorcycles -- Equipment and supplies.
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New South Wales.
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Queensland.
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Streaming video
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Hills, Philip, contributor
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Hobbs, Bernie, contributor
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Kininmonth, Christine, contributor
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O'loghlin, James, host
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Oudyn, Andrew, contributor
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Pesce, Mark, contributor
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Wilson, Hayley, contributor
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