Prototype This!
Look into the viability of gadgets and technology seen in science-fiction movies. In a warehouse on an island in San Francisco Bay, a team of engineers and PhD's are inventing the future one prototype at a time.
Episodes
Our team of inventors attempts to prototype a car that utilizes biofeedback sensors to restrict a cars performance as its driver's agitation level inc...
The prototype team looks into the future of gaming -- and giant, boxing robots are what they see. Joe and Zoz utilize a technology called optical glyp...
The boys take on the challenge of building a car that will beat traffic by rising up -- and driving over it. And as an added bonus, the lift allows th...
Inspired by the "legs" of an innovative robot called RHex, the prototypers decide to use this basic design with its synchronized alternating tripod ga...
No water theme park is complete without a long run on a water slide, but what do you do when you don't have the room in your backyard? Let the the law...
Two devices to help firefighters are designed and built: a robot assistant that can carry gear up or victims down, and a vision aid that will help in...
The team of engineers attempts to invent a space-age sleeping pod that gets you up, fed, showered, groomed, dressed, informed and out the door in a ma...
The engineers attempt to create a fully automatic pizza delivery system, employing robots, blimps and a self-driving car, which will be tested by a cr...
The team has two weeks to develop an airbag for high-rise construction workers that can sense the onset of free fall and deploy within a second.
The team want to invent a virtual deep sea diving adventure that allows you to SCUBA dive in a swimming pool but feel like you're at any reef in the w...
The team tries to develop two flying-lifeguard systems to protect swimmers on unguarded beaches.
The team attemps to invent two devices for humans to scale a smooth vertical surface and to scale a rough vertical surface like a gecko does, calling...
The team of inventors attempts to engineer the world's first robotic dog sitter. Designed to play with, let out and discipline your dog, the Robo Dog...
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7 years ago
I downloaded this, thinking it might be interesting, but soon I realized that this was utter crap!
The whole series concept is like that of many; Time Vs. Tech. Meaning, there's that deadline and the narrator, as well as the crew keeps you reminded of it. I personally wish that guys like these could just be given a task and complete it in their own time, not having suspenseful music playing, weird cutting and making the viewer nauseated by the nagging time-issue all the time. Also, why are Americans constantly treating its audience like senile morons? Is it because there are like 500 channels and it's easy to get lost while zapping through the commercial breaks, so that you have to remind them of what they were watching before they got lost 10 minutes ago (from zapping)? Which is strange, since they do this right before a commercial break, and after they return, they must for some reason re-cap, thus overlapping with scenes from all over the episode.
I felt an unease sensation as I had to fast forward in order to escape this before-/after-thing.. I didn't even make it to the end. If you want to see guys making stuff, I'd advice you to go to YouTube instead, because this is not worth your time, and possibly your mental health. Stressful, moronic, competition-driven against the clock piece of junk! Besides, that crew isn't what I'd call experts. Sure, they seem quite competent at what they do, but I think they're not the cutting-edge kind of guys. To explain that, I'll mention the boxing robots they built:
The design was that of any science school project. Stupid look, poor overall design concept, and weird solutions for both the movements, and sensors for both motion caption as well as "impact" registration (That in particular!).
Anyone with some level of both dignity as well as understanding of the concept at hand would have come up with something better I think.
But, the time allotted might have been the biggest issues and probably the wrench...