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lost his sight at 17 and began a journey of adapting technology to achieve the impossible. Through the aid of a smartphone and the feeling underfoot Simon learnt to run solo outdoors and ran his first ever race 7 months later 鈥� a 100 mile road race.

He explain his training technique to us and how he hopes to build on it for the adventure of a lifetime; running 160 miles across the Namibian desert 鈥� solo.

is an author and natural navigator.

He set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of three award-winning bestsellers and the world鈥檚 only books covering natural navigation. He explains the basis of his technique, that everything no matter how small or incidental can be a clue to finding your way - 聽whether in the natural world or on the city street.

is Director of Research, College of Arts and Humanities, and Reader in Cognitive Linguistics at Bangor University. She鈥檚 interested in 鈥渉ow we think and how we talk about how we think.鈥� This has led her to explore all sorts of aspects of how we way-find 聽and in particular the linguistics of directions.

is one of the UK鈥檚 leading experts on human behaviour in an emergency. Having studied numerous catastrophes he鈥檚 interested in what turns and incident into a disaster. His research has led him to understand the familiar patterns of people鈥檚 behaviour and odd and seemingly contradictory things they鈥檒l do when trying to escape.

works as a researcher at Georgia Tech Research Institute. His current work involves human-robot trust as well as developing autonomy for unmanned aerial vehicles.

His most recent experiment investigated how far people would trust a robot to guide them in an emergency and his results have suggested probably an awful lot more than we should.