Jamie Hyneman
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James Franklin Hyneman (Template:IPAc-en; born September 25, 1956)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is an American special effects expert who was co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage, where he became known for his distinctive beret and walrus moustache. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters was filmed.
He was an early competitor in Robot Wars, but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is the inventor of the Sentry,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> an unmanned firefighting robotic vehicle. He is also one of the designers of the aerial cable robotic camera system Wavecam used in sports and entertainment events.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early lifeEdit
Hyneman was born in Marshall, Michigan, and grew up on a farm in Columbus, Indiana. He said, "I was a problematic kid, to be sure. I left home when I was 14 and hitchhiked all over the country." As a child, Hyneman spent time at Indiana University, where his mother was a graduate librarian.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At age fifteen, he owned a pet store in a shopping mall in Columbus.<ref name ="Pet store" /> Hyneman graduated from Columbus North High School in 1974.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Academic lifeEdit
In 1981 Hyneman earned a degree in Russian linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In November 2021, he was appointed professor of practice at LUT University in Lappeenranta, Finland, for a five-year term until November 2026, and gave his first lecture on prototypes on November 18, 2021.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="is">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Honorary degreesEdit
He received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Villanova University on May 16, 2010, and gave a commencement address.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On November 25, 2011, Hyneman was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente for his role in the popularization of science and technology.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In February 2017 he was named one of the fourteen new honorary doctors of technology by Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="is" />
CareerEdit
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Hyneman has worked as a boat captain,<ref name="Skepticality">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> certified divemaster,<ref name="Skepticality" /> wilderness survival expert, linguist, pet store owner,<ref name="Pet store">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore (Archived at GhostarchiveTemplate:Cbignore)</ref> animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, and chef. He co-hosted MythBusters from 2003 to 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Special effects workEdit
Hyneman owns the special effects company M5 Industries in San Francisco. Some of his achievements in commercials include the can-spitting vending machine seen in 7 Up commercials, and his patented two-wheeled football shoe from Nike Lab commercials.<ref>Template:Cite patent</ref>
Other appearancesEdit
Hyneman and Adam Savage portray two army junk-sellers in the film The Darwin Awards. They appear during the story of the rocket-car, which they partially reproduced in the MythBusters series's pilot episode and retested twice more.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Hyneman made a cameo appearance along with Savage on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on the May 1, 2008 episode "The Theory of Everything",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> where they play inspectors giving thumbs-up after seeing a shirt soaked in pepper spray catch fire when shot by a taser. They tested this myth on MythBusters and declared it confirmed with certain types of pepper spray.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>
He and Savage executive produced and appeared as judges on the game show Unchained Reaction, which premiered in March 2012.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The two also voiced characters on The Simpsons episode "The Daughter Also Rises" as a parody of themselves, the "MythCrackers", which prompts Bart and Milhouse to experiment in a similar fashion. Both Hyneman and Savage also voiced stormtroopers in the Phineas and Ferb Star Wars special.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
In 1984, Hyneman met science teacher Eileen Walsh when he owned a sailboat diving charter business in the Virgin Islands. Hyneman and Walsh married in 1989.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hyneman is an atheist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has stated that, while he has not been formally diagnosed, he suspects he displays characteristics of autism spectrum disorder.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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External linksEdit
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