A Dutch artist has come up with a way of forming perfect, small, white clouds inside. Presenter: So, it saves hours of frustration trying to get stuff out of bottles? Jed: Well, a team of students at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have come up with a new product that you use to coat a glass or plastic bottle, and then what’s inside, hair gel or mustard, or whatever, comes out really easily. You know that feeling when you’re trying to get tomato ketchup out of a bottle and it won’t come out, but you’re sure there’s lots more in there? OK, so now for something useful in a different way. We know so little about what’s at the bottom of the ocean, and it’s important to find out more. He was the first person to do a solo dive there, and he stayed for three hours, the longest time so far. Last year Cameron went down to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the sea in the world. Cameron was part of a team, headed by engineer Ron Allum, which designed the Deepsea Challenger Submarine, capable of descending to the lowest parts of the sea, 10 km down. Jed: Another useful invention comes from a surprising source, James Cameron, the film director. Presenter: Yes, that could benefit thousands of people. The gloves use sensors to translate sign language into text, then into spoken language using a smartphone. These were invented by some Ukrainian students to allow people with speech and hearing impairments to communicate with people who don’t understand sign language. Jed: Another useful invention which it would be good to see in production are ‘enable talk gloves’. So if anyone out there has money to invest in a great product …? Jed: Well, they still need help with investment to start producing the distiller properly. Presenter: Can I hear some doubt in your voice? Then, hey presto! You have clean water! It’s a very simple device and fairly cheap to produce.
You pour in salty water and let the sun do the work for a few hours. There’s a new solar water distiller created by Gabriele Diamanti aimed at parts of the world where it’s hard to get clean drinking water. Presenter: OK, what about useful new inventions?
It’s still too expensive for me, but I suppose it’ll keep coming down. Now you can buy one for 600 to 2,000 dollars. Jed: Well, no, but the modern ones are better than ever and last October was the first ever world championship in China. Presenter: But they’re not very new, are they? Jed: Hi, yes, I’ve got some very interesting things to tell you about today, starting with a fun one: wingsuits, those suits that look like bats and allow people to fly, or glide, at least. Presenter: Welcome to Tech Today! This week it’s National Science and Engineering Week, so to celebrate we asked Jed our science correspondent to give us a round-up of new inventions.
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