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Aug 29, 2026
Designing for Dignity: How Inclusive Innovation Can Restore Independence with Douglas Katz
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8:03Douglas KatzGUEST
So if you were to take this knife and in a way bend it on itself, you would have this, which actually is patterned after a knife that was used in the Inuit culture in Northern Canada, Alaska, that area, called the ulu.
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8:19Douglas KatzGUEST
And the ulu was the everything knife.
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8:22Douglas KatzGUEST
We deem this the new Ulu.
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8:23Douglas KatzGUEST
This is the evolutionary movement of the Ulu.
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8:26Douglas KatzGUEST
But what's also cool is you can chop this way because there's good alignment.
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8:31Douglas KatzGUEST
This is sort of a hammer movement, but the force of this is going here.
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10:40Douglas KatzGUEST
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10:43Douglas KatzGUEST
I believe in some cultures in Africa, there's the Ikwa, I think is the...
Designing Independence: How Adaptive Tools Can Restore Dignity, Function, and Quality of Life with Douglas Katz
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12:19Douglas KatzGUEST
it N-U-L-U? It is.
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12:22Douglas KatzGUEST
It is short for the new Ulu.
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12:25Douglas KatzGUEST
And I could talk a little bit about that, but you pronounced it perfectly.
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12:29OkoroHOST
Okay, so can you like share some light on Nulu? Something about it, just show it to us today.
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13:24Douglas KatzGUEST
And the blade is fine for cutting, but it's secondary.
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13:28Douglas KatzGUEST
The knife is a multitasker.
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13:31Douglas KatzGUEST
and the secondary tasks are doable but they're less efficient what we did with Nulu is we patterned it after the Ulu knife and the Ulu knife is an Inuit knife it's a knife that has a crescent blade on the bottom and a handle directly above the blade so you know think of a crescent shape with a handle straight above it you got an Ulu and it's a great knife it it is super efficient It is intuitive to use and it was the woman's knife in Inuit culture.
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13:57Douglas KatzGUEST
And they did anything from skinning an animal to preparing a meal to cutting hair.
Marshals, Spies & Jack Ryan: Marc Cameron on Writing What He Knows
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36:20Marc CameronGUEST
Sorry, I get to talking.
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36:23Samantha TennantHOST
Well, and I'm curious, simply because being in Alaska, do your collection of knives also include various Ulu knives?
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36:31Marc CameronGUEST
No, I guess I probably have.
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36:33Marc CameronGUEST
So my wife's got two on the counter.
Chapter 4 Ep. 32 Back on Dry Land
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14:56Joe ScalesHOST
The, the knife that I can't remember the name.
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14:58Elle ScalesHOST
Ulu.
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14:59Joe ScalesHOST
U- Ulu.
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14:59Joe ScalesHOST
Yeah, the Ulu knife.
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15:01Joe ScalesHOST
Um, I got a whole history on that.
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15:04Joe ScalesHOST
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