Jamie Hyneman (James Franklin Hyneman) is an American host. He is a special effects expert best known as the co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage.
Jamie Hyneman Biography
Jamie Hyneman (James Franklin Hyneman) is an American host. He is a special effects expert best known as the co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage.
Hyneman is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters was filmed.
He is also known among Robot Wars devotees for his robot entry, Blendo, which for a time was deemed too dangerous for entry in the competition.
He is one of the designers of the aerial robotic camera system Wavecam, which is used in sports and entertainment events.
Jamie Hyneman Age
He was born on September 25, 1956 in Marshall, Michigan, United States. He is 66 years old as of 2022.
Jamie Hyneman Height
Hyneman stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Jamie Hyneman Family
Hyneman was born to his parents in Marshall, Michigan, United States, growing up Jamie was a problematic child and he often got into trouble. His parents couldn’t take his unruly behavior and they were ab out to take him to a reform school when he was 14 but Jamie ran away from home and hitchhiked all over the country.
Jamie later revealed that the reason he got into a lot of trouble was because he was lonely, they didn’t have any neighbors for miles and he was trying to distract himself from the boring routine of house chores.
He went away for six months then ended up in a juvenile detention center in California where his parents found him and took him home.
Jamie Hyneman Wife |Eileen Walsh Jamie Hyneman
He is married to Eileen Walsh, a science teacher since 1989.Hyneman had met his future wifeEileen in 1984 while he owned a sailboat diving charter business in the Virgin Islands.
Jamie Hyneman Net Worth
Hyneman has an estimated net worth of about $8 million dollars which he earned from his career as a special effects expert and a co-host .
Jamie Hyneman Education
He attended Indiana University where he earned a degree in Russian linguistics. He also received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Villanova University on May 16, 2010.
Hyneman was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) on November 25, 2011, for his role in the popularization of science and technology.
In February 2017, Hyneman was named one of the 14 new Honorary Doctors of technology by Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. In June 2017, he received the doctorate.
Adam Savage And Jamie Hyneman
Savage and Hyneman portray the two army-junk sellers in The Darwin Awards. They both appear during the story of the rocket-car, which they partially reproduced in the MythBusters series’ pilot episode and have retested two more times.
In 2006, Hyneman attended the annual skeptics’ conference called The Amaz!ng Meeting. He made a cameo appearance along with Savage on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on the May 1, 2008, episode “The Theory of Everything”, where they play inspectors each giving thumbs-up after seeing a shirt soaked in pepper spray catch fire when shot by a taser.
The two went on to test this myth on MythBusters and declare it confirmed with certain types of pepper spray. Hyneman and MythBusters co-host Savage appear as judges on the game show Unchained Reaction, which premiered in March 2012.
Hyneman and Adam Savage have also voiced characters on The Simpsons episode “The Daughter Also Rises”, and the “MythCrackers”, which prompts Bart and Milhouse to experiment in a similar fashion. They then reference this episode during the MythBusters Simpsons special.
Both Hyneman and Savage also voiced stormtroopers like office workers in the Phineas and Ferb Star Wars special.
Until 2016 Hyneman and Adam Savage were was an editors and contributors at Tested.com, and technology reviewer Norman Chan.
Jamie Hyneman MythBusters
Jamie Hyneman is a main cast member on MythBusters, alongside Adam Savage. MythBusters is an Australian-American science entertainment television program. The show is hosted by special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. Adam Savage And Jamie Hyneman use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, movie scenes, myths, Internet videos, adages, and news stories.
Hyneman is often exasperated by Savage’s antics and sometimes argues with him about the best approach to take. The two often have very different ideas for performing experiments and building devices. Hyneman’s ideas tend to be more simplified than his co-host’s, and he has a philosophy of reducing a solution to its most basic form wherever possible. This difference has led to numerous competitions between the two presenters when testing myths, such as testing the Goldfish Memory myth and Hoverboard myth.
Jamie Hyneman Battlebots
In 1995, Hyneman and Adam Savage created a heavyweight robot called Blendo. Adam was in charge of the electronics and control systems. It was a full body spinner powered by a 5hp lawnmower engine, the body was composed of a wok, surrounded by a sharpened steel ring at the bottom which was made of two blades. It had a spin speed of 500rpm and a top speed of up to 80mph.
Jamie Hyneman Glasses
In MythBusters Jamie is seen in Black Julbo Micropore Sunglasses style. The Julbo Micropore Sunglasses have amazing features;
- The frame of Micropore can be equipped with corrective solar lenses
- There are inserts at stem ends for better comfort and hold
- The stem ends have the capacity to bend in every direction. As a result, it is easy to wear it with helmets, beanies, and berets. The best part of these stems is that they do not stick to the hairs of the wearer
- The leather cover that comes along with these sunglasses are highly effective for mountaineers
