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  • Firing Up the Imagination
    2025/08/22

    Michael and Colin discuss fire pits, problem solving as a key feature of inventing, and perseverance with solo entrepren-eer, John Chadwell.

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    50 分
  • Meet Lt. Cmdr. Mitchell Kempisty, inventor and entrepreneur
    2025/07/15
    Michael and Colin meet with Lt. Cmdr. Mitchell Kempisty to discuss astronautical engineering, the role of education in invention, and the challenges facing an entrepreneur while serving as a naval executive officer and commanding officer.
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    35 分
  • You Thought it Wasn't Possible
    2025/06/23
    Michael and Colin talk entrepreneurship, investing, and creativity with American entrepreneur and angel investor Keith Schacht.
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    55 分
  • Perpetual Motion Attends the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition
    2025/05/19
    The Perpetual Motion podcast visits the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition and talks with several of the 42 teams from around the world competing for more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes.

    Timestamps:
    • 2:02 - GreenLIB: One-step pre-treatment process that extracts and refines critical battery elements
    • 4:25 - Rora: Committed to bettering women’s health at every life stage by creating innovative products for menopause symptom management
    • 8:10 - Safe Marine Transfer: Focused on safe subsea chemical injection to economically extend deepwater subsea tiebacks
    • 13:01 - Xatoms: using AI and Quantum-Chemistry to discover new materials to clean polluted water
    • 16:57 - Pinwheel: Designed for kids and managed by parents, this cool looking, modern phone helps kids grow into independent adults who use technology well
    • 23:20 - Watermarked.ai: Disrupts AI model training with undetectable audio watermarks and detects AI-generated deepfakes
    • 25:46 - Mito Robotics: AI-powered robotic system designed to automate research-scale cell culture
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    28 分
  • A Fish Story
    2025/04/16
    Michael and Colin meet with Lonn Cunningham, a veteran, inventor, and dedicated fisherman. Lonn shares how his mobility disabilities have put him in a unique position to help people find human connection.
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    58 分
  • A Vision Visionary
    2025/02/26
    In this episode, Michael and Colin talk to inventor and professor, John Hetling, about his ground-up process for teaching the next generation of inventors, as well as his novel approach to addressing health issues through scans of the eye.
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    51 分
  • Entrepreneurial Artist
    2025/02/03
    Michael and Colin talk with innovator, creator, director, advocate, and inventor (whew) Audrey Rumsby about unconventional fundraising for art patronage, the preservation of cultural heritage, body dysmorphia, startups, and parenting, to name a few of the topics covered.

    Guest: Audrey Rumsby
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    59 分
  • Celebrating Perpetual Motion’s 50th Episode
    2024/12/19
    For the 50th episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler revisit a number of their past guests to check in with them and see how each of their endeavors have progressed in the intervening years.

    Timestamps:

    03:43 – Lisa Wallace from Episode 8: From Potato Farms to Server Farms
    11:57 – Bob Cousins from Episode 9: Meet the Inventor of the Year
    21:36 – Craig Grossman from Episode 19: Something Big About Something Small
    32:35 – Danny Hillis from Episode 3: Pursuit of Curiosity: Inside an Inventor’s Mind
    44:11 – Lisa Myers from Episode 43: A Mother of Invention
    53:25 – Eric Bartsch from Episode 32: Electric Aviation Takes Off
    1:06:48 – Monica Plath from Episode 16: Tech Takes Toddlers to Task
    1:19:53 – Dr. Stephen Thaler from Episode 1: Are All Inventors Humans?
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    1 時間 27 分