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Title The New Inventors
Published Australia : ABC, 2011
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Summary New inventions include a tool that measures the thickness of the wood for making violins; a new and innovative approach to protecting the perimeter of restricted premises; a more reliable method to judge boxing.Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors is getting technical as we explore the way technology turns simple things into wonderfully advanced systems. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: futurist & author Mark Pesce, designer and inventor Sally Dominguez, and Good Game presenter Steven (Bajo) O'Donnell. Inventions featured on the program: !NSTRUMENTOOL MAGNETIC CALIPER by inventor Joel Sheard from WAViolin making is a highly specialised craft, and being able to measure the thickness of the wood is important when making or examining the instrument. However, the only tools available for measuring violins are either much too expensive or inaccurate. The only other option is to disassemble the instrument, and very few violin owners want to do that.Joel Sheard is a young violin maker, and rather than suffer exorbitant costs or inaccuracies he made his own tool that does the same job cheaply and easily. The !nstrumenTool Magnetic Caliper is a new digital thickness gauge designed for measuring wooden plates in violin family instruments and guitars. It can measure the thickness of nearly any thin material to the nearest 0.1mm with complete accuracy.SECUREMAT by inventor Dean Vey from ACTNo matter how much we progress technologically as a society, we will always be plagued by the existence of people trying to steal our stuff, especially our expensive techie stuff. Alarm systems for both homes and businesses can be terribly expensive, and most of the time they get it wrong. False alarms are also a serious problem that cause police a lot of grief, with some studies estimating that between 94 and 98% of alarm calls are false.The SecureMat is a new and innovative approach to protecting the perimeter of restricted premises and expensive equipment that needs to be stored onsite. The concept involves placing a mat on the ground inside a perimeter fence that can detect any intruder standing, walking or running across the protected area. The system incorporates fibre optic technology with sophisticated signal analysis that dramatically reduces false alarms.AISS by inventors Allan Hahn from ACT and Richard Helmer from VICAlthough historically among the most popular of sports, today people are more conscious of the health implications of boxing. The scoring of boxing has also been the subject of much debate, with a panel of judges making decisions about very quick events involving large sums of prize money. The Automatic Impact Sensing System (AISS) integrates a network of sensors on the athlete's head, body and hands. Using a Bluetooth network, physical contacts are monitored in near real-time on a remote computer to determine legal hits. It is hoped that this system can reduce the need for full contact contests as well as provide a more reliable method of determining the outcome of a bout
Event Broadcast 2011-07-13 at 20:00:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Boxing.
Burglary protection.
Creative ability in technology.
Detectors.
Inventions.
Violin -- Construction.
Australia.
Form Streaming video
Author Dominguez, Sally, contributor
Helmer, Richard, contributor
O'Donnell, Steven, contributor
O'loghlin, James, host
Pesce, Mark, contributor
Sheard, Joel, contributor
Vey, Dean, contributor