I want to give the powers of engineering
to anyone who is creative and who has
got an idea I believe that creativity
and engineering together are the key to
any industry and particularly to the
Internet of Things our current problem
with engineering is that of noticeable
impact we spent too much of our
creativity taking pre-existing systems
and optimizing them with little impact
no one really cares that a train goes
half of a percent of a malphasta I
believe would be much better off using
our creativity to take these
pre-existing systems and pushing them to
entirely new fields with much greater
impact this frustration was felt by
myself and a lot of my friends after
engineering school they wanted to seek a
world of adventure of creativity of
impact and a lot of them ended up with
jobs in investment banking and I even
applied for a job at a management
consulting firm
can you imagine but at the same time
these people were the best engineers in
my class and I thought it'd be ashamed
to let these people who could add value
to the world pushing their fields of
expertise and really working on it
at the same time was seeing another part
of of the population the creatives the
designers the architects the artists and
the children who were coming up with new
ideas every day to challenge the status
quo to improve our standards of living
and to change our lives but these people
were sometimes missing a key to the
puzzle they didn't often know how to
implement and materialize these ideas
they didn't know what I had learned at
school how about pushing these people to
be continuously more creative and give
them the right tools and for the past
two years this is exactly the gap that I
set out to bridge I want anyone with an
idea to have the tools and the fun to
materialize it under five minutes and
this idea is called Sam named after my
younger broad
Sam is like the ingredients that you use
to cook any dish except that Sam's are
the ingredients behind any app any
product and any innovation in the world
of the Internet of Things every object
will be connected I'll be able to take
the button that I've got at home and
turn it on it will automatically appear
on an interface and I will check whether
it works simply by dragging it on and
when I press on the button it will press
on my interface to create a light system
I will turn the light on it will appear
on my interface wherever I am in the
world and I will connect this button to
this light by drawing a line between the
two of them and now every time I press
on the button the light will turn on to
create a smart system I'll be able to
use another sensor a light sensor this
light sensor tells me how bright this
room is if it's got a high value it's
very bright if I hold my hand over it it
gets to zero if I now attach my light
sensor to this light and it gets dark
the light now dims all the way to zero
if I allow some light to fall on it it
will brighten up to create a smart
system I want to ensure that I never
waste energy whenever it's bright
somewhere outside the light should
actually turn on and vice-versa
I'll be able to take a simple function a
behavior and put it between these two
modules and now whenever it's dark
whenever I hold my hand over the light
it's gonna grow brighter and vice-versa
how about going away from this
prototyping function of Sam and into the
real world through real applications
how about connecting it to my light at
home I love reading but I want to make
sure I don't waste energy reading but I
also want to make sure that I don't have
to wear glasses in five years time how
about ensuring that whenever it's night
outside the light turns on but whenever
it's bright it adjusts to exactly enough
brightness if I get my hand close
this light turns on over here if I take
it away it adjusts to exactly the right
level of brightness for me to read how
about taking it further I want to learn
more about engineering I want to use the
same ingredients to create a new system
how about creating a car with a slider
the same button that I had a servo motor
and two DC motors if you look at the
interface all of them turned on and
appeared on my interface I put the car
on the ground and connect everything
together the DC motors with the button
the slider with a servo motor I'm now
able to steer with this slider and I'm
able to turn the motors on with my
button I've created a system that's
entirely different to the light system
before but with the same ingredients and
in two seconds how about changing the
complexity of the system and allowing
another kind of input I want the
Internet and the world to use and power
my car we're at TED Talks and so it's
appropriate that I use the right hashtag
but I want that anyone talking about Ted
now moves the car and the car is now
moving people are tweeting about Ted how
about applying this to real industry how
about applying this to the field of
robotics I can now use the proximity
sensors that I've got over here and say
hi to a new robot it's quite curious if
I get close to it it greets me but if I
get too close it gets annoyed and tells
me that I really should leave it alone
how about adding the social factor as
human beings we love to communicate and
I want to make sure that I keep a memory
of this moment I want to use the same
button that I use for my car and for my
light and connected to Twitter not only
connecting it to Twitter but taking a
picture of all of us and keeping it on
the Internet
by drawing a simple function connecting
the camera on my computer to Twitter I'm
able in a second to bridge over api's in
industry and actually take a nice
picture of all of us and I was once told
never to do a live demo here you go if
you allow me to take a picture of all of
you if you can raise your hands three
two one let's see the results of two
seconds of prototyping we have now taken
a picture of all of us and tweeted it
for the world to see
Sam was used by children to learn
electronics and coding in fact some of
them used it to create a driverless car
much more complicated in this it would
roam around a room and be able to find
obstacles and dodge them something that
took me two semesters at university took
to eight-year-olds about three hours to
create Sam was used by designers to
solve a problem in the healthcare
industry the problem of compliance they
created a smart pill box that would tell
the patient when to take their medicine
and would tell their doctor in their
family if they had taken the right one
it was used by fashion artists to create
new glasses funky glasses for blind
people to be able to roam around the
city in a safer and quicker manner we're
at the dawn of an extremely exciting
industry that will connect objects and
people it is our choice to decide who
will shape it and how we'll shape it and
I firmly believe that the more people
join the fairer it will be I'm super
excited to unboard you with Sam and
unleash your creativity to the world
thank you very much