Name: 【TED】Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper
Uploaded: 2016-06-16T07:30:56.000Z
Duration: 11 min 46 s
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and what I do is I make paper interactive.

And that's what I say when people ask me what I do,

so really, the best way for me to convey it

is to take the technology and be creative

So I tried to think what I could use for here,

and a couple of weeks ago I had a crazy idea

And I'm going to try and show that at the end,

and the suspense will be as much mine if it works.

And I'm not a DJ, and I'm not a musician,

So I think, I found the best way to describe my journey

that have happened to me throughout my life.

There's three particular things that I've done,

So when I was a kid, I was obsessed with wires,

and I used to thread them under my carpet

and have little switches and little speakers,

and I wanted to make my bedroom be interactive

And I was also really interested in wireless as well.

So I bought one of those little kits that you could get

and I got an old book and I carved out the inside

and snuck back to my bedroom and tuned in on the radio

I was not at all interested in what he was saying.

I managed to successfully fail all of my exams

and didn't really leave school with much to show for at all,

and I came back home about four years later.

I ended up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.

And on this farm there was the farmer, his wife,

and there was the four-year-old daughter.

and showed me what it was like to live and work.

Obviously, one of the most important things was the sheep,

and so my job was, well, pretty much to do everything,

but it was about bringing the sheep back to the homestead.

and the sheep would make their way all the way back

to the shearing shed for the different seasons.

although at the time, like everyone else,

because they didn't do what we wanted them to do,

what I realize now, probably only just in the last few weeks

looking back, is the sheep weren't stupid at all.

We'd put them in an environment where they didn't want to be,

and they didn't want to do what we wanted them to do.

by listening to the weather, the lay of the land,

and creating things that would let the sheep flow

My Ph.D. was to move electrons around, one at a time.

And I realize — again, it's kind of these realizations

I realize now that it was pretty much the same

It's just you do it by changing an environment.

And that's kind of been a big lesson to me,

You change its environment, and the object will flow.

so things were about 30 nanometers in size;

making it very cold, so at liquid helium temperatures;

and changing environment by changing the voltage,

and the electrons could make flow around a loop

one at a time, on and off, a little memory node.

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