S3 Ep 6 - Unusual Inventions
Xploration Earth 2050
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22m
Inventors are up to some crazy things. We’ll see a mirror that records your reflection, from all sorts of angles, and downloads all those images to your cell phone. Host Chuck Pell will demonstrate a bulletproof material made of a new kind of foam. And a New York City hotel has a new employee: a two-ton robot that loves to handle visitors’ luggage.
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