Could a robot treasure finder make a farmer rich? Is it possible to remotely exercise a horse while you are away? Could a mind-controlled parachute make skydiving even more fun, and could it even work? For most of us these are not ordinary (or even particularly sane) questions, but for Tom Scott, Colin Furze and Charles Yarnold these are life’s most important riddles. They’ll be putting their combined knowledge of mechanics, electronics and computing to (they hope ) good use as each week they attempt to make people’s lives better, easier or just plain fun. Hopefully this video taster should whet your whistle ahead of Episode 1 on Sky1HD at 8pm on 16th Jan. Click here if you want to find out a bit more about Tom, Colin and Charles.

http://sky1.sky.com/about-the-geeks on Sky1 on Sunday at 3pm or Sky2 on Saturday at 7pm