EDUCATION: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2014: Sparks Will Fly - How to Hack Your Home
Channel: BBC 4 9
Date: Monday 29th December 2014
Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (starting in 2 hours and 27 minutes)
Duration: 1 hour.
The Light Bulb Moment.
Professor Danielle George takes three great British inventions - the light bulb, the telephone and the motor - and shows you how to hack, adapt and transform them to do extraordinary things. This year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been inspired by the great inventors and the thousands of people playing with technology at their kitchen tables or tinkering in their garden sheds. When Joseph Swan demonstrated the first working light bulb in 1878 he could never have dreamed that in 2014 we'd be surrounded by super-bright LED screens and lights that could be controlled using mobile phones. In this lecture, Danielle explains how these technologies work and show how they can be adapted to help you realise your own light bulb moments. She shows how to send wireless messages using a barbecue, control a firework display with your laptop and use a torch to browse the internet.
(Stereo, New Series, Widescreen, Subtitles, Part 1)
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