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This wee country of ours has been at the forefront of some of the world's | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
most ground-breaking innovations. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
The pneumatic tyre, the ejector seat, | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
the portable defibrillator and even the penalty kick were all made in | 0:00:28 | 0:00:33 | |
Northern Ireland. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
But that was then and this is now. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
We've a whole new breed of entrepreneurs from | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
all over Northern Ireland - | 0:00:40 | 0:00:41 | |
in fields in Fermanagh, sheds in Newtownards and workshops in Lurgan. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:46 | |
In this series, we hope to showcase some of the best business minds in | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
Northern Ireland. Now, do they have what it takes to change the world? | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
Over the next five weeks, I'm going to travel the length and | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
breadth of the country meeting them... | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
-Good to see you. -How are you? -£10 for a selfie, love. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
Learning more about their creations. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
I feel like I'm swaying backward and forward, but I'm not. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
You know exactly what's going to be happening at home. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
They'll be one person sitting on the sofa loving an idea, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
and somebody else, "It's never going to work!" | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
So we're going to actually bring in a people's panel every week to do just that. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
Ordinary people looking at these new creations in | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
Northern Ireland and trying to work out whether they like them or not. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
First up, he might have an English accent, | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
but he's lived in Downpatrick for most of his life. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
And he reckons he can take urban sports to brand-new heights. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
My name's Philip McIntosh and I'm the inventor of the JumPack, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
a portable ramp that a skateboarder, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
BMXer can take with them everywhere they go. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
Essentially it's a product that will give them the freedom to get | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
air anywhere. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:55 | |
MUSIC: Nouveau Western by MC Solaar | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
This is me trying to look cool in the park. I'm not doing a good job. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
And this is your invention. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
How quickly does it go up? | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
It goes together fairly quickly. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
It's designed to be deployed in a matter of seconds, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
rather than it being multiple parts that you have to actually, you know, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
assemble on location. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
So it's designed to go together like a transformer, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
lock the feet in position, the legs are automatic opening. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
It's nearly there. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:38 | |
-So as soon as we've essentially done that. -That's it. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
It's pretty good to go. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
It's that good to go. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:47 | |
Tell me you're coming next time! | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
All my life I've been involved in riding and jumping bicycles, | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
that has been my passion from the age of four or five. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
I can't think of anything worse than going out on a bike. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
Born in 1970, kids born around that time never had a choice, | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
they were watching Evel Knievel on TV and Eddie Kidd and they were | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
going out on their Grifters, building ramps. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
But about ten years ago, I watched these three young guys, | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
they had three BMXs and they had a huge plank of wood piled with breeze | 0:03:19 | 0:03:24 | |
blocks. And I thought, "I was doing that in 1977." | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
Surely by now somebody has invented a mobile ramp that kids can take | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
everywhere they go? | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
# Like a sound you hear | 0:03:38 | 0:03:39 | |
# That lingers in your ear but you can't forget | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
# From sundown to sunset... # | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
I can see how much this matters to these guys. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
But is there demand for this throughout the world? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
-Well, there is. -Enough for a business? | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
These sports go hand-in-hand with getting air. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
Without getting air, the sport doesn't exist. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
There's very few skateparks around, so unless you live right next-door, | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
-this is essential. -How much is this? | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
This is about 129.95. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
-That's a lot! -This is, you know... | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
-That's dear enough. -It's actually not. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
There are other mobile ramps on the market out there, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
but when I say mobile, they're mobile if you have a van. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
Those are ramps are about £500-£600. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
-Is it safe? -It's totally safe. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
We have done quite a bit of testing with this... | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
Obviously, you don't want a bigger weighted man on that and it collapses. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
This one is only a prototype. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
Once we get the production model ready, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
I'll give you a ring and you can come down and hit that one and we'll | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
-see how that goes. -See if I survive it. What's your dream for this? | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
My dream is actually that in five or six years' time, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
I'm going to be driving down the road and I'm going to see kids at | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
the side of the road with a JumPack, playing. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
Because when I was their age, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
I would have given anything to have one of these. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
-Good luck with it. -Stephen, thank you very much. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
# So let's take it back to the concrete streets | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
# Original beats and real live MCs | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
# Playground tactics, no rabbit in a hat tricks... # | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
Right. Do you know when he said he'd | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
like to see a kid playing on the side of the road with it? | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
I'm just thinking, "You fall off the ramp and you get cream-crackered." | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
For that amount of money as well. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
It's quite expensive for something that potentially could be a whim. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
Whenever I did it as a kid, | 0:05:27 | 0:05:28 | |
I wanted to go out and find breeze blocks and a bit of wood, | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
because it was dangerous and it was fun and you've got to have 129 quid | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
-to buy the bloody thing. -Does the biking world need it? | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
-I don't know. -Well, I don't know, I haven't a clue. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
I'm not a biker and I never have been, probably never will be. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
Or a skateboarder. To me, it looks like a pretty good idea. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
I mean, you'd think that something like that would have been invented | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
-already. -Yeah. -Mind you, he did look like he was in Ghostbusters, | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
wearing a backpack. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
MUSIC: Ghostbusters Theme | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
Some inventions really do try to inject a bit of fun into our lives, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
but then again, there are other entrepreneurs who are working on | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
really serious ideas. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:08 | |
This next concept is around an issue that many of us | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
may face in the years to come. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
The number of people with dementia is expected to double in the next | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
20 years. In the next decade, it's expected to get a lot worse, | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
as people are living longer. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
This next guy owns a company called Cradle and he's developed a product | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
where he says he's selling peace of mind. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
Now, it's particularly interesting to me, | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
because I look after my mum and what | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
this guy's trying to do is to keep track of people, | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
but giving the person confidence to maybe go a little bit further. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:46 | |
My name is Paul Moorhead and I'm here to tell you about Cradle. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
It's a product which will enable people to be confident that their | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
elderly relatives are safe and well at home. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
To find out more, I've come to meet with Philip and Liz Cunningham, | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
who live in supported accommodation just off the Shankill Road. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
Philip's wife, Liz, suffers with early onset dementia | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
and they are both keen to find out how the Cradle system could affect | 0:07:08 | 0:07:13 | |
Liz's life and that of her family. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
So, how would this be useful to Liz, then? | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
Well, there's only two parts the system. There's a base station, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
which is the console sitting here and there is a wrist strap which Liz | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
has kindly put on for us. The base station has some | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
environmental-sensing capabilities, | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
so it can tell that somebody's in the room and if they're up | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
and about. It knows the temperature, those kind of things. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
The wrist strap knows a lot more. So at the moment it is monitoring | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
Liz's heart rate, her skin temperature, | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
it can detect falls and seizures. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
And the idea originated because of my mother. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
She's one of the two million people over 75 in the UK | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
who are living alone. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:48 | |
She is in pretty good health, by and large, | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
but she's had a couple of falls, | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
started to get worried about her and | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
thought there's a way for technology to help this problem. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
To better understand the potential for Paul's machine, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
I wanted to speak to Liz alone, | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
so I could find out for myself what life was like for her living with | 0:08:03 | 0:08:08 | |
dementia. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
Would you go out onto the Shankill Road now, on your own? | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
I wouldn't feel confident, no. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
It's the disorientation. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
I kind of looked out for landmarks and if I was walking up, | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
I would look out for things, but then, | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
by the time you're coming back, | 0:08:24 | 0:08:25 | |
you forgot what you've actually seen. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
You seem so... | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
-coherent now. -Not all the time, not all the time. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
I think the most upsetting thing is forgetting my daughter. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
What she looked like. I wouldn't even go into the house, | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
I was just so shocked that this girl was standing there who I didn't know. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:47 | |
Really, really, physically and mentally upset me. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
I'm sure it did. That's your daughter. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
You know, that's my baby. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
It's very hard when you're watching yourself deteriorate. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
And that is the most emotional part for me. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
The emotional impact of dementia on Liz's life is all too apparent. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
So it would be great if an invention could really make a difference. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
If I go out on my own, I would get lost and that's a big concern. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:20 | |
I sort of look around and I don't know where I am. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
Next thing, phone up... | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
I should mention there's a panic button on the device as well. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
-Yeah. -So that would report, you know, where you were and | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
they can be with you fairly quickly. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
That's exactly what I would need, | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
because you get yourself so stressed out. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
It would feel almost... I'm going blooming mad. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
People around me are looking at me, you know, making a scene almost. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:43 | |
What do you think of it, Phil? | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
I think it'd be good, because, as Liz says, if she gets lost, | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
which she has done in the past, | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
I would get an alert to say where she is. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
Paul's system actually learns the wearer's behaviour, | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
so his idea is that it will send an instant alert to your carer if it | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
thinks they're not up and about when they should be. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
Or, for example, if they've forgotten to take their medicine. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
In my life at the minute, someone who I love, | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
it's difficult to get them to take their medicine | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
at the right time, especially when there are loads of tablets to take | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
and things like that. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:20 | |
Medication reminders are probably the most important use case here. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
When you should take which medications. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
And if you don't press a button to confirm that you have, then again, | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
an alert would go to a carer to say, | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
"Mum may not be taking her meds, | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
"you should probably get on the phone and check she's OK." | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
In a way, I'm thinking of it as, I'm still trying to be independent. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:40 | |
And, you know, I don't want to have | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
to have Philip with me 24 hours a day, | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
because it's not fair on him and if I had something like this, | 0:10:47 | 0:10:52 | |
I'm not saying I would go far, but I would attempt it with this. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
-Do you know what I mean? -It would give you the confidence to try? | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
Yes, exactly. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
Something about this one really pulls my heartstrings. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
Not knowing her daughter, that's terrible. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
I can speak from personal experience, because my grandmother... | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
Not dementia, but she had Alzheimer's. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
I'm not so sure how good something | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
like that will be at the later stages of Alzheimer's, | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
but certainly in the early stages, it would be. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
Working in health care, this is a topical, | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
massively topical issue at the moment. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
-Yeah. -These monitoring devices. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
If the issue here is that these people are forgetting things, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
what if they wake up and they go, what's that on my wrist? | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
-And take it off? -I do think this goes a step further, | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
because most of them you will wear around your neck and this idea of | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
putting it round your wrist, monitoring your body temperature and | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
everything, is fascinating. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:45 | |
And it is like a big, progressive step forward. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
But you would want to know that in the likes of America and places, | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
this doesn't already exist, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
because there are a lot of things out there like this. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
I would maybe like to see it incorporated into a watch or something like that. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
Something that isn't going to startle them to think, | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
"What's on my arm?" You know, | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
if you can create a way to add it on to an everyday object that they are used to. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
I have a relative who is in their 80s and every morning, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
she texts me. And she texts me "NDY", right? | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
Which stands for "not dead yet". | 0:12:15 | 0:12:16 | |
That's just the truth, and it's a great system. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
And I text back "NAI", "neither am I". | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
Here we are on the Newtownards Road. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:29 | |
Not the most affluent of places, is it? | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
The people here are as good as anywhere else. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
What I love about this next story is that there's a young fella here | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
who has created a product and he's selling it around the world. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
Hip flasks are as old as alcohol itself. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
They have been around in their current form since the 18th century, | 0:12:47 | 0:12:51 | |
as a traditional accessory for the well-heeled gent. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
Hardly me, then! | 0:12:55 | 0:12:56 | |
They fell from grace for many years but have recently been enjoying a | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
renaissance. A renaissance capitalised on by young entrepreneur | 0:13:01 | 0:13:05 | |
David Galbraith, who tells me he's | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
selling 100 of them a week from a small office in | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
East Belfast, with over 50% of his sales now going to women. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
At between £50 and £135 a pop, it could be a lucrative business. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:23 | |
-Where'd you get the idea from? -My uncle. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
He always used to carry around a flask with him in the hills of Donegal. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
He would have a bit of moonshine in his. We're maybe 30 years on. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
Flasks haven't changed. They're still old and fusty and horrible. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
I just wanted to make one which was nicer and had a brand behind it. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
-What is different about this? -This is seamless flask. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
So it doesn't leak if it's in your handbag. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
They can be personalised from our workshop in Belfast and arrive | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
at your door next day by 9am. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:49 | |
Most importantly you can switch these pouches around. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
If you stop liking your America you can just put on a nice Northern Irish one. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
There must be loads of companies doing this, David? | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
We're the only one in the world first of all doing the pouches and | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
second of all the only hip flask brand in the world. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
You won't find another one. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
"Only" - you're not the only one in the world. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
We're the only hip flask brand in the world and I'm so proud to say | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
we're from Northern Ireland as well. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
David's business is online and his | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
customers come from across the world | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
to buy these personalised hip flasks. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
See some of my customers, they're really where my heart is | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
because they'll come to you sometimes with certain problems | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
they've had that they're trying to solve with a nice gift or maybe | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
they're trying to remember someone. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
We've had a lady contacted once, her grandmother had cancer and she | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
wanted a flask to give to her kids to remember the grandma. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
That to me just goes so much beyond money. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
£50 for a flask might be OK for these | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
swanky Americans but we're here on the streets of East Belfast. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
So, let's see what the real locals make of this. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
Come in here and test the market, I guess. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
We have Union Jack ones. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:04 | |
-What better place to do it than in here. This is David. -How you doing? | 0:15:04 | 0:15:08 | |
Are you the man who's got the Union Jack one. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
We had things like this years ago too, but different things on it. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
The important thing about ours, | 0:15:15 | 0:15:16 | |
you can change the pouch on it if you want. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
-Different countries? -You can switch to a Northern Ireland pouch, | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
Rangers FC pouch if you want to. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
Not sure a Celtic one would sell well here. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
All right. Don't you start trying to barge through here. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
What's that man there? Listen, I'm a customer too. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
Let me show you the hip flask. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
What do you think of it? | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
Do you like it? | 0:15:38 | 0:15:39 | |
Why is he not talking to me. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:41 | |
-I think you don't like me. -He's not the only one, is he? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
-What do you think of the hip flask? -Best ever. -Do you like it? | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
-Yes. I do. -Would you buy them as a gift? | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
Well, they'd be handy for the 12th. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
Good, this young fella on the road. Would you take 1,000 of them? | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
They're actually... | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
Maybe I should be on a percentage cut. I like percentage cuts, | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
but the locals do seem keen on these jazzed-up hip flasks. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
-What's your dream? -I want to be able to go to places in the world and | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
people will recognise my product. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:15 | |
They don't need to recognise me, just my product and that's my dream. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
Tell you what, I'd be a long time waiting for anyone to buy me a | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
hip flask. That's not what it's all about. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
Would you buy one for someone you care about? | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
-Excellent. -Yes. -I knew you'd like that. I just knew you'd be all over that one. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:39 | |
I just think it's, I mean, first of all he hasn't reinvented the wheel. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
-Maybe he has reinvented the wheel. -He's got a good name for a start. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:47 | |
What astounded me is he claimed that it's the only hip flask company in | 0:16:47 | 0:16:53 | |
-the world. -No, the only hip flask brand. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
-OK. -Difference. -I really like it. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:57 | |
I really like it but I just don't | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
know, I feel like anybody could do it. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
Doesn't matter if anybody could do it because he's trying to brand it. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
Now that's difficult. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:05 | |
I think they're nice. Ornamental value as well. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
They'd sit nicely on top of my bookcase. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
My dad, for example, never wants a gift and I would be stuck and I | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
would go I can't get him another bottle of Lynx or a pair of socks, | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
but I could get him a new sleeve for his hip flask. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
That's true. It's a really nice gift idea. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
-It is different. -He could sell ice to the Eskimos that guy. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
He's very good. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:27 | |
Paddy Bloomer is our resident inventor, | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
who you should never, ever, ever, try to copy in your entire whole | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
life because his ideas are absolutely completely crazy. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
Do not try this at home. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
MUSIC: Mad Man Blues by John Lee Hooker | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
Ha, ha, ha. Mad man blues. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
# So I'm home last night about nine o'clock | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
# Got the mad man blues. # | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
Some people like to soak in the bath. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
Some people like to sing in the shower. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
But thanks to this next device, | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
it's going to be literally possible to tinkle when you sprinkle. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:14 | |
We've all experienced uncomfortable silences at public toilets. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
This is one easy way to alleviate this. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
It's a fairly standard urinal. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
Except we've added these set of conductive metal tines arranged | 0:18:25 | 0:18:29 | |
along a musical scale here and they are in turn connected back up to a | 0:18:29 | 0:18:35 | |
voltage-controlled oscillator and an audio amplifier. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
NOTES PLAY | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
At the very core of this show, of course, are the brand-new ideas, | 0:19:06 | 0:19:10 | |
those fledgling companies that are trying to make it. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
But do you know what else I want to do once per show? | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
I want to show you a company that's a little bit further on, | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
who are already exporting throughout the world. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
Have you ever noticed those little | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
lumps underneath top sports stars shirts? | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
These are GPS trackers and with player stats now at the forefront of | 0:19:32 | 0:19:37 | |
the modern game they give access to everything, | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
from tackles and distance run to speed and collision rate. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:46 | |
Top teams use the Viper GPS system and it was created by Newry based | 0:19:46 | 0:19:51 | |
company STATSports. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
A company who now claim to be the | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
leading provider of GPS player analysis in the world. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
Today we're at Kingspan Stadium, the home of Ulster Rugby, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
where the Viper player analysis | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
system plays a key role for the players. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
Here's GPS analyst Chris Hagan. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
What the GPS unit gives us, | 0:20:14 | 0:20:15 | |
it gives us the total distance the players run, the metres per minute, | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
so the intensity they are covering that distance at, | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
the speed they are covering the distance at and the external impacts. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:25 | |
This gives us a good understanding of the structural muscle damage that | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
the players are put through, | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
whether it be in training or whether that be a match. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
To be able to get live data of how you are performing, | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
how far you have run, the speed you are running at, | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
all those different variables, is massive now for players. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
And that's what guys want to do. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:41 | |
They want to keep improving. It's a great valuable tool to let us see | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
where we are at and see if we are improving and it definitely does | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
bring a bit of competition out. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:49 | |
STATSports has developed this alongside other professional teams | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
like Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, the teams they work | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
with, ourselves, Ireland rugby. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
I feel like STATSports are ahead of the game in terms of what they | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
-produce. -The only downside as a player is that there is no hiding | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
place now. Everything is recorded. Every session we do is recorded. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
So if you are feeling tired and feeling a bit sorry for yourself, | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
you can't just take it easy. You still have to go hard. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
Again I guess that is bringing out the best in everybody. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
I'm off to the middle of nowhere to visit a little B&B called | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
Ballyroney Cottage. Located just outside Rathfriland in County Down. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:45 | |
Does this really look like somewhere a business would flourish? | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
Now, Vanessa Drew runs the guesthouse. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
She has a lovely, laid-back way of living. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
Is she prepared to forego some of that in order to make even more money? | 0:21:54 | 0:21:59 | |
They like a massage, Stephen. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
-A massage where? -All over the back. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
Sing them a wee song. A wee lullaby, please. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
# I don't know any lullabies. # | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
Oh! | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
I've cracked one. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
Vanessa, I've broken an egg. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
-Oh, Stephen! -I knew I wouldn't be good at this. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
I never even wanted to pick eggs in the first place. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
But back to business. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
As the hidden gem at Vanessa's B&B is her home-made produce. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
Honey from her own bees, cheese, | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
yoghurt and ice cream from her goats and even home-made wine. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
But Vanessa works alone and can only produce in small quantities. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:43 | |
Now, there are those who travel from far and wide to snap it up. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
Her decision is whether she's going to expand so that | 0:22:47 | 0:22:52 | |
we can all taste the honey. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
At the start I wasn't really selling it. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
And then the guests wanted to take it home for presents for their | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
friends and family, and maybe it was going to Australia or France | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
or all over the world, everywhere the people came from. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
And then I thought, well, actually maybe this is an opportunity for | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
a good business. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
There's a wasp! | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
I know, but it's all right. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:17 | |
-I'm terrified of the things! -Oh, you're grand. -I really am! | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
Seriously, the wasp is only interested in this. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
It's not interested in you, I'm really sorry to tell you that. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
-And this is out of the goat? -Yes, it is. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
-It's lovely. -Thank you. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:33 | |
Do you really mean that? Fresh-made this morning. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
I can even tell you which goat it came from. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
That's Coco's yoghurt. You will be milking Coco later. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
A goat! Does that mean I have to feel its teat? | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
-Oh, you do. -I don't feel teats. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
-You do, you'll love it. -I've never touched a teat in my life. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
Well, you see, many a man has said | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
that and they came here and they were completely converted. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
Now, this is our honey straight out of the hive. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
Hm. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
It's nearly worth getting stung for. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
Now, there is two of them! There is one thing I cannot stand. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
It's bees. Or BBC TV projects where they want me to get into a stupid suit. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:15 | |
I will not be in a bee suit. It's not happening. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:19 | |
Thank God it doesn't fit me. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
It's like Cinderella. It's like the glass slipper. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
You look like Nasa. That could be your new job. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
Astronaut. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:32 | |
I'm getting really sick of this woman. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
Hellfire and brimstone, it is today, isn't it? | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
She's so jovial and everything is happy. I'm really sick to the back teeth of her. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
But I guess I do have to admit | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
through gritted teeth that Vanessa is a savvy businesswoman. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
She brings in extra revenue, for example, | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
through the regular beekeeping courses. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
People pay to do this? | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
They do! Thank you. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
And even though she has a fairly modest 14 hives at present... | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
-I only keep docile bees. -Don't be ridiculous. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
-You can't have docile bees. -You can. -A docile sting, is it? | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
This still yields almost 1,000 jars of high-grade honey every year. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:18 | |
There you are, now. Stephen Nolan the beekeeper. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
-I can't speak. -I knew you'd love it. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
Oh, you love your food, don't you? | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
Vanessa also tends to a herd of 12 goats, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
with a big smile on that irritatingly so-happy face. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
There you are. Are you going to have a go? | 0:25:36 | 0:25:40 | |
And she milks every day for that glorious yoghurt, | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
cheese and ice cream. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:44 | |
Oh, I can't touch it. Oh! | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
I can't! I can't touch it! | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
-Are you joking? -No, I'm not joking! | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
Vanessa is clearly hard-working. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
She's very proud of what she produces here. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
But she did seem to have a hesitation about fulfilling | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
the ever-increasing demand for her produce. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
So I needed to know, is she a businesswoman driven by profit or not? | 0:26:05 | 0:26:11 | |
I'm more interested in being happy than being a millionaire. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
-Just as well. -So, you're a businesswoman who doesn't want to be rich? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
Yes, isn't that weird? | 0:26:20 | 0:26:21 | |
I wouldn't mind having a couple of employees, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
but I don't want it to develop to | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
the extent where we have 250 milking goats, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
none of them have a name, they're all just going round on this | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
automatic milking carousel, | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
and all these ladies with their blue polythene hats and white coats on, | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
and I'm sitting upstairs in an office somewhere and I haven't seen | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
my goats all week. That would be not my idea of success. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
'Tell you what, it's not something I would say, | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
'but Vanessa would say it's not all about the money. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
'For Vanessa, being an entrepreneur means taking something she loves and | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
'sharing it with the rest of us. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
'And I guess there will be lots of people who will admire that.' | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
Coco, I am so sorry. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
-Great. Good luck to her. -That was more like a... Yeah. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
It's what you would call a lifestyle business. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
It's a local, maybe selling to a few delicatessens, | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
but it's never going to be a global... | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
Oh, no, no, but she doesn't want it to be and that's fair enough. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
-No. Exactly. -But it's exactly the sort of thing you would see in St George's Market. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
She's a lovely lady and she is an animal lover just like myself, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
-so good luck. -Yeah, oh, no, no. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
I mean, I can definitely see her | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
making a little bit of money out of her love for what she enjoys. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:37 | |
It's going to be limited by the supply. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
Is the food the business or is the B&B the business? | 0:27:40 | 0:27:44 | |
If she doesn't want to make these huge big batches, | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
then the only way I could see that expanding is looking into setting up | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
the same experiential holiday in another location. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
You know, self-sustaining tourism. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
You know, you go and live as a farmer for three days. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
I actually would like that side of it. I actually think there is where | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
she could get a little bit of a market going. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
Your ice cream and milking the goat. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:05 | |
Yeah, and then eating it at the end. Perfect. Perfect. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
Do you know what the secret is? I reckon just from doing this show, | 0:28:09 | 0:28:13 | |
don't be letting your ideas sail away. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
Nail it down and have a go at it. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
And if you look at the website, the details are on your screen. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
The opportunities and the support will be there for you. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
We'll see you next week. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 |