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Deep Rover / Samsung

0:43 Introduction from Chris in a delightful puce shirt and green tie ensemble. 1:04 "Pay As You Go" Geoff Watson reports on a new traffic management model in Hong Kong "The Electronic Road Pricing Scheme" 4:40 High tech computing! 6:35 (Totally non racist scene. Look away children.) 7:09 "Deep Rover" Chris Ardell-Guiness reports from Vancouver about a one-man deep water submarine. 11:36 Chris goes down! 14:16 Iain Finlay. Amazing digital watch. Top two shirt buttons undone. Something for the ladies! 15:47 "Wine University" Carmel Travis brings us some marvellous pronunciation and deliciously fruity drops from Suze La Rousse, France. 19:27 Wine always tastes better when drunk from a beaker and pipette. 23:19 Fun Champagne cork factoid! 23:32 "Carbon Fibre Ligament" Iain reports from Newark, New Jersey on a groundbreaking synthetic ligament technology. 24:25 Needlessly graphic knee surgery. Ewwww! 29:08 Carmel's outfit here is so fashion forward it's probably cool again. 29:21 "Unsinkable Life Raft" Carmel risks life and limb on rainy Sydney Harbour to demonstrate some state of the art lifeboat technology. Special points to the sound editor for the story introduction! 32:11 Finally, we discover how high the Beyond 2000 studio ceiling is. Turns out, it's pretty high. 34:56 "Air Force Survival Suit" Chris just loves hanging around! Really working that studio height this episode. Watch this and realise what's missing in your regular, boring clothes. 39:21 "Technology in South Korea" A fascinating early report on the growth of electronics giant Samsung from Carmel. Note the absolutely correct pronunciation of 'Ginseng', and 'Samsung'. 45:30 Iain teases episode 5. Then he's off to the yacht club. Bye!

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  • Originally Aired January 4, 1985
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network ABC (AU)
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