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Every week, a curious 10-year-old and her slightly too-confident dad debate the world’s weirdest inventions and ideas. From headless cows to AI televisions. One of them argues it’s brilliant, the other insists it’s bonkers. Together they explore the strange space between genius and madness — where the best ideas often start.Is it the next big thing or total nonsense? You decide.
Unknown Host hosts Brilliant or Bonkers: Weird Inventions & Innovation Debates, a kids show with 24 episodes published.
It's the Brilliant or Bonkers Worldcup Special! This week Amanda & Dad set out to fix football. The crowd takes over. Dad suggests electrodes in the boots that buzz players left, right or middle. Having viewers at home p
Episode: The Hogwarts School After a visit to Warner Bros Studios London, Amanda pitches a chain of schools where every classroom looks like Hogwarts. Real curriculum, real exams, but floating candles, house dining halls
What if you could programme your earbuds to filter out the crying baby on the plane, the annoying colleague at work, or — controversially — your own spouse? Not sci-fi: the University of Washington already has it working
The shirt is white. The bolognese is red. The school photo is in twenty minutes. Every parent knows this exact moment of dread — and this week, Olga thinks she's solved it. In a Brilliant or Bonkers first, the referee ha
Amanda wants to grow bacon on a tree. No pigs, no farms, just plant it and wait. Mark thinks she might be onto something — because someone has already done it with seaweed. This week on Brilliant or Bonkers: the chemistr
What if every page your child read automatically earned them pocket money? This week Mark and Amanda look at The Earmark — a physical bookmark with a small display that tracks how many pages a child has read and shows th
Every family knows the moment. The suitcase is full, the child is crying, and Mr Elephant is being left behind. This week Amanda pitches her solution: the Fluffdrum — a home device that compresses stuffed toys flat for t
Ever jumped into a holiday pool and instantly wanted to jump straight back out because it was SO cold? Amanda has invented the solution! A personal pool heater that warms the water around just you! But is it a brilliant
Episode 15: The Internet of Everything (Yes, Even Your Fork) What if your toaster could text your kettle? What if your cutlery drawer had beef with your dishwasher? Welcome to the fully connected home, where every object
COMPETITION SCANNER: Brilliant or Bonkers? Amanda wants a scanner that can detect winning tickets inside competition products BEFORE you open them. Is this brilliant entrepreneurship or bonkers cheating? Amanda argues it
Episode: The Classroom Seat Exchange You are stuck between two chatty kids in class again. The teacher moves kids around constantly, but doing so takes ages. So Amanda came up with an AI app that could optimise classroom
Why do Spanish people eat 12 grapes at midnight? How did ancient Babylonians invent New Year's resolutions? And what does a glowing Shame Cube have to do with keeping your promises? Join us as we debate whether New Year
Ho ho hold on... is that a defecating peasant in your nativity scene? Join Mark and Amanda for a festive sleigh ride through the world's most wonderfully weird Christmas innovations. From real patented Santa Claus detect
What happens if you take the world’s biggest, grumpiest, most chaotic animals… and shrink them down to the size of a poodle? In this episode of Brilliant or Bonkers, Mark makes the case for a house-sized safari featuring
In this episode of Brilliant or Bonkers, Mark and Amanda tackle the Disaster Bed — an earthquake-activated bed that drops you into a protective capsule and seals shut to keep you safe from falling debris. Is it genius li
Climate change is heating up the planet like it’s wearing too many blankets — so can we build artificial trees to help cool it down? In this episode of Brilliant or Bonkers, Mark and Amanda dive into one of the wildest c
What if the trees in your local park could glow in the dark? In this episode of Brilliant or Bonkers, Mark tries to convince us that genetically glowing trees are the future — magical, energy-saving, and totally brillian
Dust: the silent killer of LEGO cities. Builders spend hours keeping skyscrapers, bakeries, and modular streets spotless… and then the dust comes back. So should someone invent a LEGO-sized Roomba? In this episode of Bri
What if you could 3D print your snacks? In this episode of Brilliant or Bonkers, Dad thinks the Cheese Printer is a meltdown waiting to happen; messy, overengineered, and totally unnecessary. His daughter? She’s convince
In the 1930s, parents were told babies needed fresh air to stay healthy, so some clever (or completely unhinged) inventors came up with the baby cage: a wire box you’d bolt to your apartment window and hang your infant o
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