Solar Meditation Bow

Palu Rainbowsong, from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, presented the Solar Meditation Bow, a solar-powered instrument built for meditation and framed as much as an art piece as a product.

The pitch aired in Season 8, episode 6, in 2013, with a request of $75,000 for 33%. That equity split implied a value of about $227,273.

CBC put the ask on the record and kept the verdict to itself, so the outcome remains an open question. Several secondary accounts say the Dragons bought a bow on air, but that describes them buying the novelty item, not an equity investment with named terms, so we leave it as not-recorded.

This installment is widely cited as the most-watched episode in the Canadian show's history, drawing around 1.1 million viewers. As for buying one today, the official product site loads blank, so sales run through Palu's own Bandcamp store, where a bow is listed at $1,000 CAD with tiered options as of July 23, 2026.

The equity ask is striking: 33% for $75,000, an implied value of about $227,273 and one of the smaller valuations in this group. It reads less like a scaling play than a maker looking for a believer.

There is no citable deal, and the honest reading of the widely repeated 'the Dragons bought one' line is that they purchased the item on air, not a stake in the business. The number that actually matters here is the audience: this is billed as the highest-rated episode the show has aired. Cultural footprint, not deal terms, is the story.