Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention DVD--A review

I had never heard of Wallace & Gromit before I got this DVD to review, but, wow, am I impressed.

Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention is a BBC show that explores all kinds of scientific wonders in a fast paced, humorous way. The shows may be made for kids, but they will fascinate and educate adults too.

The animated doughfaced Wallace and his floppy eared sidekick pup, Gromit, introduce each segment.

Featured are some of the world’s greatest minds and innovations and some of the deservedly obscure ones. Wallace introduces the history of some of the ideas and inventions that have changed the world, as well as some of the world’s greatest flops.

Among the segments are:

Historic attempts to build robots to do household chores and menial tasks
How Nature's plants and animals provide the inspiration for some of the world’s most important inventions
An amateur rocket builder fulfills a lifetime dream by launching a rocket into outer space
A lollipop and a video camera can help the blind to see
How movie star Hedy Lamar’s wartime invention contributed to the development of the mobile phone
Why bumblebees may someday replace sniffer dogs in seeking out explosives
A refrigerator designed by Einstein
A laser powered aircraft that could change forever the way humans will be flying
An uneducated African teenager builds a windmill from junk and improves the lives of his village by providing electricity

Inventions, ideas, gadgets, contraptions are all here in this six-part series that celebrates people who have followed their dreams and made the world a better place. And others who have followed their dreams and made the world a funnier place.

Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention DVD is now available in stores or from Amazon. (See sidebar)

Dramatis Personae

Misty the alpha Poodle
In her spare time
she studies quantum theory and
reads Proust
Timmy the stud muffin
aka
“The Jaws of Death”
“The Silver Assassin”
Chamois the generic dog
The world’s only
Miniature Albanian Wolfhound
because we were tired
of telling people she was a mutt
Tudee the Rescue
Half Chihuahua, half linebacker
Found in a busy intersection
telling the cars that
she was there first
Taki
A loving cat who came off the streets
and into our lives
and never left