as a young white male i appreciate them thinking about my often overlooked ethnicity and constructing this movie such that i can relate to the trials and tribulations of the protagonist, an impossible task but for the implementation of this ingenious and not at all hackneyed directorial decision.

This is not an invention looking for buyers, its an invention looking for investors, manufacturers and distributors. I'd also be interested in what sort of replaceable filtration technology they currently employ. Would be ingenious if they could be manufactured and replaced onsite ( http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/waterfilter.html ).

I remember an interesting movement kinetics study from a few years ago, analyzing the efficiency of movement for different animals. Humans walking were remarkably inefficient compared to many animals, the most lopsided comparisons being against large birds, like condors. HOWEVER, human's on bikes were exceedingly efficient movers, demonstrating how ingenuity is the 'bread and butter' of our species.

Big upvote. I think Gondry used the walking shoes effect previously, it's an ingeniously simple filming technique. Tie strings from shoes to feet, walk backwards, then play in reverse.

Ha, that's pretty ingenious actually. Though it just takes one douchebag getting caught doing this to screw an entire class (or school even) out of being able to drink anything while taking a test.

Yet another 'ingenious plan'... that fails in the most lame @$$ way possible.

'Soft targets'. Yup, human beings are pretty soft in this context. Especially the ones we don't like.

I suppose instant death from a mach 8 projectile is preferable to dying slowly from shrapnel wounds or third-degree burns, let alone NBC effects.

cybrbeast - what a compelling argument! We should develop more and more ingenious ways to kill people on the offchance that one day they'll have a non-violent use. Maybe you were playing devil's advocate, but of all the dumb, cliched arguments in favour of war, that's one of the worst.

That's what is brilliant about Microsoft. They use millions of Beta testers (aka consumers) and then offer exceptional support for the end user product. On top of that updates and upgrades for existing software is always free. Yeah we complain and moan about it but it really is an ingenious marketing strategy that was risky to put in place.

Reminds me of this quote I read from Richard Dawkins:

It is notoriously hard to persuade drivers to slow down in a fog, or refrain from tailgating at high speed. The economist Armen Alchian has ingeniously suggested that we should abolish seat belts and instead compulsorily fix a sharp spear to all cars in the middle of the steering wheel, pointing straight at the driver’s heart. I think I would find it persuasive, whether or not for atavistic reasons. I also find intellectually persuasive the following calculation: if a car travelling at 80 miles per hour is abruptly slammed to a complete halt, this is equivalent to hitting the ground after falling from a New York skyscraper. In other words, when you are driving fast, it’s exactly as if you were hanging from the top of the Empire State Building by a rope, sufficiently thin that its probability of breaking is equal to the probability that the driver in front of you will do something really stupid. I know almost nobody who could happily sit on a window sill up a skyscraper, and very few who do things like bungy jumping willingly. Yet almost everybody happily drives at high speed along motorways, even when they clearly understand in a cerebral way that the dangers are precisely equivalent. I think it quite plausible that we are genetically programmed to be afraid of heights, but not to be afraid of travelling at high speeds horizontally in wheeled vehicles, because our ancestors would never have met them.

For more info, check out the rest of the Wikipedia article.

I've been watching the development of this project for a while now, not only am I impressed by the intent of the project, but also all the ingenious design features they have come up with.

The thing this guy insists on not understanding is that evolution also removes the extra parts. Lets turn his mousetrap analogy in his face, a mouse trap needs to be set, it needs fingers in order to become a trap, so when a mouse comes along as says "this trap cant possibly be in working order, there are no fingers around, thats because when its set, it doesnt need the fingers anymore.

An organism that evolves will not only "think" of ingenious ways to protect itself, find food or reproduce, but it will be a shameless boss when it comes to paying the wages, anything that it could do without, it loses, so once the mechanism, built gradually, is "complete", selection starts chipping away the parts that isnt strictly needed anymore, and thats how you get "irreducable complexity"

Come on people! This is video-gaming history! One of the most ingenious marketing solutions ever. (Oh, and how in the world do you find the super-secret warp zone when playing the game for the first time?)

The Dead Pool is an ingenious idea. But surely the more videos you have published the more time you will have to spend maintaining/fixing them. So in order to keep your rank you will have to spend even more time on the Sift???

Yes, I researched it in some length. It was the non-intuitive part that compelled investigation. I seriously doubt, personally, that it will find it's way into bulk commercial refrigeration though.

They use exceptionally pure, rare earth materials, very expensive, highly tuned lasers, and are only cooling infinitesimal amounts of material. The lasers only cool the atoms directly exposed to the beam which is why the Feshbach resonance method of fliping the spin of the more energetic atoms in the center of the material and ejecting them out of the system with magnets is necessary. As far as the laser cooling is concerned it was the ingenious use of the Dopler effect that really impressed me. Both the magnetic and laser methods are seriously cool...pun intended.

A truely fascinating field of study, not only in terms of the peculiar properties of BEC's, most of which this video doen't get into, but the ingenious methods used to remove energy from these groups of atoms. I initially began researching this topic by way of the investigating questions that had been a thorn in my mind for far too long:

How the fuck does a laser cool something? Don't lasers heat, melt, burn, evaporate, etc?
The answers to this questions led me to BEC's, Superfluidity, Supersolids, Feshbach resonance, ...

It was a satisfying foray into physics.

A great movie . . . and James Dean was a pretty ingenious actor. (The monkey scene at the beginning.) Pity he died so young . . .