so today my talk will be a little bit
scientific but hopefully will give you
the inspiration to see the impact and
applications behind changes it's quite
often that when I when I visit a
different country when I meet new people
when I get introduced to a group of
people after the usual introduction
saying how are you what's your name and
so on
it's where are you from because we all
look different when I say Yemen inside
me I always say oh me Yemen which is a
really proud or from young age so then
it becomes interesting to see their
reaction
some of them know exactly where Yemen is
the location there is a graphical
borders and so on but the others they
get confused saying is it the East Horn
of Africa which is the closest thing I
heard but once of the funniest responses
I received was how come we don't look
like a typical Yemeni and I said what
does the typically really look like they
said it should have a blonde hair and
blue eyes I was shocked and at that
point I knew that that guy thought I am
from Germany which is close to Yemen in
his language which is harmony and then I
corrected him by taking my mobile phone
out and I showed him the world map and
then when I wanted him to guess where
Yemen is he didn't know exactly where it
is because he doesn't have that
Geographic and interest and then I
pinpointed that location for him and he
knew exactly where Yemen is and he read
more about Yemen information the history
the economy and so on now geography is
fun and I always loved geography I enjoy
reading about countries their location
geographical positions and so on but the
part that is interesting for me was how
was I able to get information sitting in
a different room than my home or my
office getting everything I needed about
the world map the location of Yemen and
the informations needed and that's
because I have my mobile phone with the
electronics and the wireless devices
necessary to do that and the part that
are most fascinated about I'm passionate
about the antenna and electromagnetism
because without it you can't have the
wireless communication we have today it
becomes very complex and because the
next on I didn't allow us to have mobile
phones interface with video and so on
can I borrow a mobile phone from one
the audience please okay thank you
mother
so the mobile phone here is but complex
electronics in it the communication
devices but the part that are interested
about and the part that without you
can't get information or make mobile
phone it's inside it and I'll try to
open this mobile phone and I hope the
guy who gave me the phone doesn't get
upset that X will reimburse you so don't
worry yeah so okay sorry whoever you are
okay so what you have here is all the
components on all the different
electronics but what's interesting is
this metal part at the bottom it looks
simple it's just a strip of metal
designed in a way that it should operate
at something specific which is the
mobile phone operator you linked with so
second-generation mobile phone
generation one of these antennas
different shapes different sizes will
warp a wireless LAN for Bluetooth and
for GPS I don't know most of you can't
see it because the lighting on the
distance I have a closed so I thought
about that earlier so he was a joke by
the way it's not his fault it's my phone
I broke it up and we staged all that so
don't worry about that okay Dex doesn't
need to reimburse anyone any money
so what happens here is that this
antenna is designed correctly you can
get the best communication link if it's
designed with mine that is going to be
surrounded by all that electronics it
can achieve the quality that we need
from our communication today the antenna
is part of the electromagnetic spectrum
and I'm specifically in the part where
radio waves operate and what got me
interested even more about this is that
I'm dealing with something I can't see
which we call the invisible radio waves
I can't see them we come visualizing
with our bare eyes so we have to look
deeper into how they operate on how they
work and for someone who's from young
age was always interested how toys
operate how they can move how they can
behave and how they actually make noises
I ended up always breaking them up
because that's the best way to learn
curiosity gets the boss the best of me
and I feel sorry for my poor parents
because they always keep on buying
for me and it's really the encouragement
they never give up on me being curious
about how stuff worked and how they
operate they always encouraged me to do
that so now before I move forward into
understanding how this works curiosity
got even worse at university level
because we were given a task saying you
need to build this transmitter or
receiver so how can I design that how
can I design a mobile phone the first
one I designed with a group of students
my peers actually in the class it was
the height of my body
so I was sure there's something wrong
going on because I just took component
from a shop bought it put it all
together and managed to get it done but
then I was advised to take a step back
it's really important to always take a
step back in life because when I took a
step back and looked at the basics of
what I'm talking about electromagnetic
antenna it was actually the name James
Clerk Maxwell and his equations when I
first saw this equation I thought to
hell with University I'm leaving and
that's me inspiring you guys no but
seriously
so jokes aside looking at this equation
so scared the same what we need look at
maths and physics of the complexity I'm
sure most of you've seen that before but
the trick is you always have to look
behind the challenge and the world
that's created there and what encouraged
me to even push forward in this field is
the fact that I saw Maxwell's related
electromagnetic match with time and
space now we have wireless communication
on mobile phone but also we have
satellite communication so we can
actually get the old TV channels on so
on we can also understand our universe
if someone is surviving out there yeah
and an earlier speaker told us there's
someone up there so we are believer and
then even more interesting is that now
we can relate it directly to our lives
our healthcare is the best thing that
can people relate to because now we can
have all these wireless devices which
includes antenna and other science
behind electromagnetism attached to our
body get an information like our heart
rate from inside the body and so on then
that even pushed me further and
curiosity got me Wars and I started
taking this antenna I started building
them doing more research on them and
to sticking these antennas on myself I
follow me in the lab especially med lab
this is me looking older than I look now
and then I moved around with it because
we never stay in a lab controlling your
devices you're always out and about
sometimes you're on a beach sometimes in
your building or you know the old
channel in sauna and so on but that was
a bit cumbersome it was difficult to
handle a cable or was attached to me the
equipment has to follow me everywhere
but then my friend came for the head
that was crying when I found him from
joy because this phantom the solid
phantom I can stick wireless devices on
him or her it could be either male or
female and then I stick the device on
the phantom and get the information out
and keep tracking that information but
if you remember earlier I said we
dealing with the invisible here apart
radio waves I can't see so how can I
handle them or how do I understand when
I put an antenna on my body that is
going to go this direction that
direction or everywhere always get a
bender on my body so that case we
thought maxwell created equations and we
know that computers is all about maths
equations implemented in electronic way
and that's what we did implemented this
equation and now we can visualize what
happened to radio waves when they are
surrounding the human body you can see
them curved I'm going around you can get
some energy on the side and some little
energy on the back and that helped us a
lot in understanding how they
communicate and you might wonder ok
that's fine you love your science you're
a geek what can we do with that so story
here is that how does that matter to
society on people in general and how it
doesn't matter because what we care or
the research we're dealing with is how
we attach wireless devices on you that's
actually not quite visible so there's
small sensors small devices something
similar something similar to this side
button that can be part of your clothing
or part of whatever rest what you are
you wearing so this information can
actually take any medical data for
example your heart rate your body
temperature your ECG whatever medical
data required and transmit it to a
mobile phone a tablet or to a wireless
access point that most people have today
and they
to the medical care or the doctor and so
on then where I'm doing my research is
really important to shorten of the
impact not influencing only the people
that elite to come benefit from it but
what make it more important is that we
know the from the statistics by 2030
energy people which is defined as people
aged 65 and over in certain countries
certain parts of the world like the USA
there will be 20% of them over 65 of the
population in UK and European Union it
will be 25% and in China will be 13% and
you can imagine what 13% for China means
yeah lots of money so then that
encourages even more to get
understanding of what's happening but
then I thought I'm coming to the texana
so I really need to understand how that
relates to Yemen in general I did the
statistics I found out that in Yemen at
the moment the current statistics that
people aged between 15 and 64 is
actually makes up 54% of the population
and people aged over 65 it's less than
3% which is quite shocking so this
actually pushes us even further to
implement such a technology and such
understanding for people in this group
age the young group age to link them to
survive for longer live healthier so
they can contribute to the country so
they can make it the Yemen they actually
dream up or they want it to be in the
coming few years then I thought it's not
all about health care and getting
medical data because people get bored
about that we thought everyone talks
about Facebook I just said they're
talking about us now in Facebook that's
interesting god knows what they saying
but that's doesn't matter now
so the social networking is really
important Facebook Twitter it was all
virtual now and we need to bring it back
into physical domain into how I can
actually communicate with people and get
the best out of the day I now have my
lovely assistant Alma a round of
applause for our key
you've got the description on the slide
but what what Ireland is wearing is what
we call the icebreaker t-shirt and the
icebreaker t-shirt what does it do
actually has a connection to a wireless
network to a social network is Facebook
Google+ or Twitter and so on has got a
radio frequency identification which
identifies who I am and who is ahmed
from his name age on his Facebook page
Twitter link and and the whole point is
that if we both are very shy and sit in
the corner in event like TEDx we get to
shake hands I don't have a t-shirt it
was expensive to bring check in hand and
you'd see here that it recognizes the
handshake by blue and then what happens
there it actually pulls the information
of Ahmed and my information from
Facebook Google and Twitter comparison
and then this color map here shows the
compatibility at the moment it shows the
green being the brighter which means we
have some stuff in common so he must
actually like Barcelona but that's of
fun and that that's all putting his
stuff on our body but what we wanted to
do is take that leap from science
fiction to reality a bit further and
challenge our abilities and our
scientific mind curiosity and so on so
we wanted to put stuff inside your body
because we're still in the dark when it
comes to inside the human body unless
you want to open your body and see every
organ step by step everyone not everyone
some of you are aware of endoscopy the
camera with a pipe goes from this way or
another way don't I describe it but it's
quite invasive because that way is quite
invasive and you don't feel comfortable
and one of the work that we worked with
is actually a capsule size communication
device or what we call the wireless
capsule and this is Wireless endoscopy
you swallow it obvious it has to be
biocompatible it's related to by the
gradable material and so on you swallow
this capsule and it keeps taking
pictures while the camera is still going
through your body and it relates this
information to the doctor or the carer
and it gives them better idea of what's
going on and this can be extended to
more stuff controlling your heart
pumping your kidney controlling the
liver function everything can be
stimulated because the brain controls it
brain can send
signal signals about waves a max and we
know all about this information and this
is stuff and everything I've talked
about now is still related to something
we can achieve physically we can
actually build by the devices and I'm
sure some people who can't do it
actually the next day or next coming
week and so on but we wanted to
challenge it even further and further
after understanding how waves work this
is the same one we've done with
Maxwell's equation again Maxwell - the
hell did telling us what happens when
the wave leaves the stomach so you see
the information coming out of the body
but we wanted to challenge what the
physical domain understands about the
appearances objects so now I moved up
and they act about making spectrum and I
took it to the lightest spectrum light
is not white it's different colors red
blue green and so on so it's complex so
the question is can we actually make
objects and people invisible or make
them disappear right well people say
well so to prove it is that we to learn
from nature Mirage how does the Mirage
take place the light bends from the sky
when the light bends from the sky it
appears as a water pool but it's a trick
right that's fine because as an engineer
I can make wave banks by building
special materials now in nature
cuttlefish is an octopus they can be
hundred percent invisible you can never
see them unless you become really close
and then it becomes really scary for
them and they make themselves visible
the question now I want to throw to the
audience
polar bear everyone aware of them
they're quite cute and savage at the
same time so are they black skinned or
white skinned
some of them answered right which is
black skin the polar bear had a black
skin
it appears white because the hair is
translucent it takes light from the
surrounding and reflects it into your
eyes so it's tricking your eyes by
manipulating light so getting is stuff
from impossible to reality like the
invisibility cloak in Harry Potter and
James Bond movies it's actually becoming
a step closer to what we want to achieve
it's in labs on computers now but will
happen they laughs that are better in
fairness when he said I want to fly and
look who's joking now right
no one recognizes his contribution but
everyone knows he's the one the first
one to think about flying and he is
doing it now it takes a team to build
something right it takes a team to make
sure that impossible is nothing and we
can beat it it takes a team to
understand that a challenge is a hurdle
and once we look at is a hurdle that we
can jump like please we can beat it and
we can achieve whatever we want and we
can make impossibility and science
fiction a reality and thank you very
much