Office chair lacking a jet engine? Maybe he can help with that.
John Bowler atop the "mechanical lizard car."
This is fun: John Bowler, a contractor from Malta, is the host of a new show on the National Geographic Channel called Mad Scientists. From the blurbage:
Travel across America with host John Bowler as he ventures into gadget-filled garages and junk-strewn backyards to meet amateur inventors who are making amazing(ly weird) things! Test-drive a jet-powered minivan, a fire-breathing wheelchair, a water-powered rocket belt, and more. Once we've seen what these 'mad scientists' are capable of, John challenges each inventor to improve one of their creations, and, with his help, build the coolest, weirdest thing they can think of. And here's the catch -- they only have 48 hours. The results? Well, it might work and it might not, but either way, "It's going to get weird!"
After the jump, there's a clip from an episode in which they build a rocket-propelled motorcycle/office chair.
Bowler got an audition for the show through a college roommate who's producing the show -- and, as he told to the TU, "I'm fairly fluent in wacko."
Mad Scientists debuts tonight at 10 pm at Nat Geo.
(Thanks, Jessica R!)
photo: Mad Scientists Facebook
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