PODCAST: The Popular Mechanics Show (Season 2), Breakthrough Awards

October 12, 2006

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PODCAST: The Popular Mechanics Show (Season 2), Breakthrough Awards

This week we'll take you behind the scenes of Popular Mechanics' 2006 Breakthrough Awards. Leadership award winner Burt Rutan will join us--along with Tesla Motors CEO Martin Eberhard and Lockheed Martin Stardust probe team leader Joe Vellinga--to discuss why adventure and risk are necessary ingredients in innovation. DIY peanut sheller inventor and BTA winner Jock Brandis will demonstrate his device, Dartmouth College's student inventors will give us a test drive of the GyroBike and the engineers behind the BigDog quadruped robot will talk shop--all in exclusive Popular Mechanics Show appearances. Plus: Exclusive interviews from the floor of the Breakthrough Awards celebration and the full, uncut audio of Burt Rutan's acceptance speech. 15 winning breakthroughs, 54 minutes of candid talk and a combined guest IQ that's numerically larger than the national debt. Hosted by Benjamin Chertoff

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