Perpetual Motion® Podcast

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Dr. Cecil Christensen, an orthopedic surgeon. Dr. Christensen, a medical pioneer who performed the first hip replacement surgery in the U.S., shares stories and discusses the hard work, foresight, and innovation that guided him on his journey. “I had asked the British surgeon if I could come and work with him the following year. And he says...

Join host Michael Glenn and guest host Dan Austin at the Capital Factory 2024 SXSW Startup Crawl. They travel the floor to meet inspiring entrepreneurs and government agency representatives who are bringing about the future of innovation. Your guided tour begins here: [1:55 ]  Vlogmi —A social media platform focused on sharing genuine and authentic content to create a positive effect on digital we...

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler meet with Barmak Heshmat and Christopher Barsi of Brelyon to discuss their immersive Ultra Reality displays. Their topics include the technical aspects behind the perspective and optics required to achieve a 10’ virtual display from a significantly smaller physical screen.

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler discuss earth observation with Clint Graumann, CEO and co-founder of Nuview, a company that is building a commercial satellite constellation dedicated to annually mapping the planet’s entire land surface using LiDAR technology.

In this episode, Michael and Colin talk to Kumar Gaurav, a former manager on Perkins Coie’s Finance Digital Transformation team. While at the firm, Kumar developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform named Harold, for presenting varied manners of complex financials to firm partners. Kumar describes what the process was like for developing new inventions from within the unique law firm environ...

1:00 - Eve Vehicles —Drone network that can be safely deployed in an urban environment, allowing first responders to deploy the right resources to address a problem as quickly as possible. 10:29 - Advanced Telesensors —Provides completely touchless heart rate and respiratory rate sensing without the use of a wearable for everyday general wellness. 12:46 - Keywell.ai —Provides strategic data scienc...

Join host Colin Fowler and guest host Suzana Gadzo as they travel the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 to meet inspiring entrepreneurs committed to creating innovation’s next wave. Your guided tour begins here: Toi Labs - 00:59: provides early detection and health monitoring through advanced toilet technology. Plantiga - 08:28: is a human analytics company focused on gait analytics, sensors, and i...

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler meet with Hope Shimabuku, director of the Texas Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to learn how the Patent Office fulfills its mandate of encouraging and protecting innovation, including by reaching out and serving underrepresented and overlooked inventors.

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Ajay Bam, CEO and co-founder of Vyrill, about indexing the content within hosted videos by timecode to enable direct navigation within videos.

On the third anniversary of the Perpetual Motion podcast, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler meet with Chris Beaman, founder of Astronomic, a matchmaking service that helps entrepreneurs, founders, and investors build their professional networks. Prior to Astronomic, Chris was in marketing and developed some of the first influencer campaigns by brokering relationships between social media personalitie...

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Eric Bartsch, co-founder and chief executive officer, and Erik Lindbergh, co-founder and executive chairman, of VerdeGo Aero, about the application of hybrid-electric generators to power electric motors on airplanes, improving efficiency and maneuverability. The future of flight is electric.

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Aarash Darroodi, Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, about humanity’s common language—music. Aarash takes us on a journey that includes the movement of music across cultures; current innovations in music, including the acoustasonic guitar; and the future of artificial intelligence (AI) a...

Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler sit down with Molly Kocialski, the director of the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as she shares stories about innovation in the climate tech space and programs at the USPTO that incentivize further discovery. Molly explains the value of research and quantification when pursuing end solutions.

For the second year in a row, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler visit the South By Southwest® Creative Industries Expo. Join us as we travel the floor to meet inspiring entrepreneurs and government agency representatives that are bringing about the future of innovation. Your guided tour begins here: 00:41: EverCase is disrupting the freezing process using electrical and magnetic fields to prevent ice...

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler discuss the genesis of South by Southwest (SXSW) with Hugh Forrest, the festival’s co-president and chief programming officer. Hugh describes the processes for selecting programming and what happens every year when hundreds of thousands of the world’s creative avant-garde descend on Austin for SXSW.

Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Gene Dolgoff, CEO at Holobeam Technologies Inc., about applications of holograms and wave interference to achieve the “teleportation” of energy. Gene has developed an array of wave emitters that align waves in such a manner that causes destructive wave interference where energy is not desired and constructive interference where the energy is desired. Among...

Michael Glenn and guest host Andy Pettit visit the 2022 Austin Startup Week Crawl . Listen in as they meet and mingle with Austin’s foremost startup entrepreneurs. The guided tour begins here:(1:11) - Clearity Health seeks to enable affordable healthcare for all. Clearity Health is not an insurance company, but a place where individuals can compare healthcare prices provided by real people in thei...

Michael Glenn, Colin Fowler, and guest host Lara Dueppen speak with NaThanya Ferguson of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Office of Innovation Outreach. This episode touches upon topics concerning unrepresented groups of inventors, including the historical underrepresentation of women as named inventors on patent applications. NaThanya highlights a number of inspirational inventor st...

Colin Fowler and guest host Al Araiza traverse the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 in search of creativity. Your guided tour begins here: 1:25 – Neubility innovates the delivery industry with self-driving delivery robots, redefining how items are transported within cities. 7:15 – Simply-Bread provides microbakers with the products and services they need to be successful entrepreneurs while nouris...

Michael And Colin discuss the effect of innovation, and particularly artificial intelligence, on society with Rachel Dooley, Liz Grennan, and Ilona Logvinova of McKinsey. The group discusses what it means for an AI to be responsible including the management of training data and careful consideration of learning algorithms and the role start-ups play in the development of responsible AI.

Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Erik Kulstad, cofounder of Attune Medical, about inventing and marketing new medical equipment. Attune Medical develops devices that give healthcare providers easy access to a patient’s core and allow precise temperature control, whether warming or cooling, through the esophagus when clinically indicated.

Michael and Colin discuss the future of enterprise computing, Web3, interoperable blockchain networks, and the end of siloed information with Steve Cerveny, Founder and CEO of Kaleido. The conversation focuses on elements and tools of Web3 that go beyond the initial financial services use cases. Learn more about Kaleido here: https://www.kaleido.io

Michael and Colin discuss artificial intelligence (AI) innovations that examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are increasingly using to evaluate the innovative applications before them. Leading the discussion is Jerry Ma, the Director of Emerging Technology at the USPTO.

Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler speak with Craig and Ingrida Grossman of Gman BioTech about the development of antibacterial surface coatings and bacterial/viral tracing systems. Gman BioTech focuses on the importance of understanding and controlling the environment in which bacterial and viral threats thrive. Craig Grossman - Founder, President at Gman BioTech, Inc https://www.linkedin.com/in/crai...

Michael and Colin visit the 2022 South by Southwest® Creative Industries Expo. After a two-year hiatus from live events, the festival is back. Join us as we meet a cross section of the exhibitors, explore their ideas, and share their enthusiasm and energy. Your guided tour begins here: 1:37: ZOZO NEXT https://zozonext.com/en aims to create a world where more people can enjoy fashion by imagining a...