This Oregon inventor powers his beautiful bicycles with jet engines that he builds from scratch.
Subjects: General
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U-Boat Worx
This Dutch company personal submersibles that allow 2 to 5 people to explore the oceans in a unique way.
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Quadrotor
A high-tech team of students at UC Berkeley have developed a helicopter-like machine that uses learning-based model predictive control to predict where a falling object will land.
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Dumpster Home
Meet an artist who reinforces the claim that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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Disabled Hang Glider
Meet an incredible man from California who loves to hang glide… despite the fact that he is confined to a wheelchair.
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Holloman Test Sled
Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico houses the longest and fastest sled track in the world and is the place where the US military tests things like rockets and missiles.
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Boxer Jocks
Got a score to settle with someone? How about using these life-sized Rock ’em Sock ‘Em Robots?
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Echolocation
Dan ventures deep into a cave in China to try to catch a horseshoe bat so he can study how their ugly faces help them find their way in the dark.
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Burning Down the House
The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety has a unique research centre in Florida that studies how to minimize damage during natural disasters.
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World of Speed
Jay Ingram takes us to the Bonneville Salt Flats and shows us the incredible variety of vehicles that show up each year to set speed records.