Airdate: Simon Reeve’s Big Life Fix

On Monday SBS premieres a new 3 part series, Simon Reeve’s Big Life Fix, in which designers repurpose everyday objects for people who need a helping hand.

Technology is transforming the world, for better or worse. But in Simon Reeve’s Big Life Fix, there’s a radical team of creatives who are proving that the good can outdo the bad by repurposing everyday objects in order to change people’s lives for the better, from 3D- printed prosthetic hands to robotic legs for those living with spinal injuries. The core Fix Team members are accomplished designers and inventors who have the ability to employ the latest technologies creatively and innovatively. Their varying backgrounds, interests and personalities mean that they will each approach a problem from a completely different perspective.

The team works together and in each episode they change someone’s life. It’s science that changes lives. It’s the belief that nothing is impossible.

Episode One:
The team of inventors are challenged to come up with solutions for three very different problems. They attempt to help a terminally ill photographer who can no longer use his hands to operate a camera. They try to bring cutting-edge communication to a remote Welsh village which has no internet access and an unreliable telephone connection, and work to give some control back to a young designer who has Parkinson’s disease and who has been unable to use a pen since developing tremors in her hands two years ago.

Monday, 13 March at 8.30pm on SBS.