Making BrainNet, (re)making nature, making everything
68People are makers. Without clothes, tools and weapons, we would have been a locally occurring monkey species. We dominate nature thanks to our inventions, but can we also learn from the inventions of nature? For example, by making materials that repair themselves? And if our brains resemble a machine, can we connect them directly to a machine or to each other? All people are naturally creators, but how do you make it possible for anyone to make a real invention?
Original Title: The mind of the universe - The makers
Miguel Nicolelis maker of the BrainNet and neuroscientist. He has made the world press several times with technological highlights that speak to the imagination. In 2013, he linked the brains of rats to each other and also managed to make monkeys work together through a computer that recorded their brain activity. Nicolelis has a peculiar view of the world: he sees the universe as a blank canvas, on which the brain paints.
Joanna Aizenberg (re)maker of Nature and materials scientist. She made a name by "stealing" ideas of nature to make new bio-inspired materials of the future. Materials that are both strong, deformable and liquid-repellent. No idea she gets is crazy. Thinking outside the box is a pre, and made her a pioneer in materials research.
Susant Pattnaik maker of everything: call him an inventor, entrepreneur or motivational speaker, because he does all that. Long before he obtained his bachelor's Physics and Electronics and Communications Engineering , he was a famous face in India. The invention with which he created when he was 16 was a device with which paralysed people could control a wheelchair, for example, with their breath. After that, many other innovations followed, such as a system for charging a bicycle and a bracelet that gives women various opportunities to chase offenders. His findings gave him six presidential medals. Pattnaik is also doing his best to give others the opportunity to work out their creativity.
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Credits:
Presented by: Robbert Dijkgraaf
Editor in chief and script: Rob van Hattum
Direction & Editor: Kees Brouwer, Gijs Swantee, Sander Cijsouw
Research: Frederique Melman, Remy van den Brand, Anna Gimbrere, Wiesje Kuijpers, Gerko Wessel
Production: Madeleine Somer, Jordy van Langen (stage), May-Linn Tsiang (stage)
Cross Media Manager: Eef Grob
Redaction: Elmar Veerman, Marijn van der Waa, Bram van Dijk (stage), Imani van Oosterhout (stage), Yfke van der Ploeg (stage)
Media Manager & Assistant: Olivier Schuringa, Pardis Faqiri (stage)
Camera: Chris Blokhuis, Hans Bouma, Martijn Cousijn, Jacko van ’t Hof, Job Kraaijeveld, Sjoerd Vogel, Karsten Hohmann
Sound: Daan Arens, Dennis Kersten, Jillis Schriel, Mark Witte,Gregor Koppenburg, Bidisha Das, Pedro Rodriques da Silva
Translation: Lei Fang, Sasja Yakovleva, Alexandra de Vries
Script editing: Caroline Ligthart
Editing: Jeroen van den Berk, Sander Cijsouw, Tim van der Maden, Olivier van der Zee
Design: Jurriaan Schalken
Composition: Jos Jansen (Big Orange)
International partners and Education: Fred Mulder
In cooperation with: Tijl van Huijkelom
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.