TEDActive 2011
Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
Opfindelsen der låste op for en indespærret kunstner
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Nervesygdommen ALS efterlod graffitikunstneren TEMPT paralyseret fra top til tå, tvang ham til at kommunikere blink for blink. I et bemærkelsesværdigt foredrag ved TEDActive, deler Mick Ebeling hvordan han og et team af samarbejdspartnere byggede en gratis opfindelse der gav kunstneren -- og giver andre i hans omstændigheder -- ressourcerne til at lave kunst igen.
Mick Ebeling - Entrepreneur
Mick Ebeling founded the Not Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems. Full bio
Mick Ebeling founded the Not Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems. Full bio
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I have had the distinct blessing in my life
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Jeg har oplevet den særlige velsignelse i mit liv
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to have worked on a bunch of amazing projects.
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af at have arbejdet på en række fantastiske projekter.
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But the coolest I ever worked on
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Men det sejeste jeg nogensinde har arbejdet på
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was around this guy.
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var om denne fyr.
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This guy's name is TEMPT.
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Denne fyrs navn er TEMPT.
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TEMPT was one of the foremost graffiti artists in the 80s.
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TEMPT var en af de førende graffiti kunstnere i 80'erne.
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And he came up home from a run one day
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Og han kom hjem fra en løbetur en dag
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and said, "Dad, my legs are tingling."
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og sagde, "Far, mine ben prikker."
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And that was the onset of ALS.
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Og det var begyndelsen på ALS.
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So TEMPT is now completely paralyzed.
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Og TEMPT er nu fuldstændig paralyseret.
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He only has use of his eyes.
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Han kan kun bruge sine øjne.
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I was exposed to him.
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Jeg blev udsat for ham.
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I have a company that does design and animation,
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Jeg har et firma der laver design og animation,
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so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part
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så tydeligvis er graffiti helt sikkert en kompliceret del
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of what we admire and respect in the art world.
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i det vi beundrer og respekterer i kunstverdenen.
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And so we decided that we were going to sponsor
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Så vi besluttede at vi ville sponsorere
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Tony, TEMPT, and his cause.
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Tony, TEMPT, og hans sag.
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So I went and met with his brother and father
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Jeg tog ud og mødte hans bror og far
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and said, "We're going to give you this money.
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og sagde, "Vi vil give jer disse penge.
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What are you going to do with it?"
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Hvad vil I gøre med det?"
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And his brother said, "I just want to be able to talk to Tony again.
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Og hans bror sagde, "Jeg vil bare være i stand til at tale med Tony igen.
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I just want to be able to communicate with him
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Jeg vil bare være i stand til at kommunikere med han
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and him to be able to communicate with me."
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og at han er i stand til at kommunikere med mig."
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And I said, "Wait a second, isn't that -- I've seen Stephen Hawking --
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Og jeg sagde, "Vent et øjeblik, er det ikke -- jeg har set Stephen Hawking --
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don't all paralyzed people have the ability to communicate
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har alle paralyserede mennesker ikke mulgheden for at kommunikere
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via these devices?"
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gennem disse apparater?"
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And he said, "No, unless you're in the upper echelon and
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Og han sagde, "Nej, medmindre man er i den øvre gruppe og
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you've got really amazing insurance,
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man har en virkelig utrolig forsikring,
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you can't actually do that.
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kan man faktisk ikke gøre det.
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These devices aren't accessible to people."
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Disse apparater er ikke tilgængelige for folk."
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And I said, "Well, how do you actually communicate?"
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Og jeg sagde, "Jamen, hvordan kommunikerer I så?"
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Has everyone seen the movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly?"
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Er der nogen der har set filmen "Dykkerklokken og Sommerfuglen?"
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That's how they communicate --
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Der er sådan de kommunikerer --
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so run their finger along.
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så de kører deres finger langs.
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I said, "That's archaic. How can that be?"
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Jeg sagde, "Det er forældet. Hvordan kan det være?"
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So I showed up with the desire to just write a check,
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Jeg mødte op udelukkende med ønsket om at udskrive en check,
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and instead, I wrote a check
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og i stedet, skrev jeg en check
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that I had no freaking idea how I was going to cash.
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som jeg ikke havde nogen anelse om hvordan jeg skulle dække.
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I committed to his brother and his father right then and there --
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Jeg forpligtede mig til hans bror og hans far på stedet --
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I'm like, "All right, here's the deal:
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jeg sagde, "Okay, nu skal I høre:
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Tony's going to speak, we're going to get him a machine,
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Tony kommer til at tale, vi får fat på en maskine til ham,
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and we're going to figure out a way for him to do his art again.
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og vi finder på en måde så han kan lave sin kunst igen.
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Because it's a travesty that someone who still has all of that in him
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Fordi det er en travesti at nogen der stadig har alt det i sig
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isn't able to communicate it."
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ikke er i stand til at kommunikere det."
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So I spoke at a conference a couple months after that.
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Jeg talte ved en konference nogle måneder efter det.
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I met these guys called GRL,
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Jeg mødte disse gutter der hedder GRL,
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Graffiti Research Lab,
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Graffiti Research Lab,
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and they have a technology
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og de har en teknologi
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that allows them to project a light onto any surface
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der tillader dem at projicere et lys på en hvilken som helst overfalde
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and then, with a laser pointer, draw on it,
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og så, men en laserpen, tegne på det,
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and it just registers the negative space.
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og den registrerer det negative rum.
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So they go around and do art installations like this.
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De tager rundt og laver installationer som denne.
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All the things that go up there, they said there's a life cycle.
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Alle de ting der er deroppe, de sagde at der er en livscyklus.
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First it starts with the sexual organs,
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Først begynder det med kønsorganerne,
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then it starts with cuss words,
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så begynder det med bandeord,
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then it was Bush slanders
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så var det bagvaskelse af Bush
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and then people actually got to art.
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og så kom folk faktisk til kunst.
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But there was always a life cycle to their presentations.
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Men der var altid en livscyklus i deres præsentationer.
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So I went home and was having dinner with my wife
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Jeg tog hjem og spiste aftensmad med min kone
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and was telling her about this,
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og fortalte hende om dette,
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and we were like, "Well wait a second. If we know that this technology exists
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og de sagde, "Jamen vent et øjeblik. Hvis vi ved at denne teknologi eksisterer
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where you can use your eyes to control things,
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hvor man kan bruge sine øjne til at styre ting,
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why don't we figure out a way for TEMPT to control a laser
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hvorfor finder vi så ikke på en måde så TEMPT kan styre en laser
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and he could do graf again? Well that would be awesome."
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og han kunne lave graffiti igen? Jamen det kunne være fedt."
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So that started the journey.
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Sådan begyndte rejsen.
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And about two years later, about a year later,
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Og cirka to år senere, omkring et år senere,
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after a bunch of organization
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efter en masse organisation
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and a bunch of moving things around,
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og en masse flytten ting rundt,
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we'd accomplished a couple things.
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havde vi opnået en række ting.
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One, we battered down the doors of the insurance companies,
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Et, vi slog dørene ind på forskringsselskaberne,
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and we actually got TEMPT a machine
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og vi fik faktisk fat på en maskine til TEMPT
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that let him communicate -- a Stephen Hawking machine.
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der gjorde det muligt for ham at kommunikere -- en Stephen Hawking maskine.
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(Applause)
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(Bifald)
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Which was awesome.
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Hvilket var fedt.
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And he's seriously one of the funniest -- I call him Yoda,
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Og han er seriøst en af de sjoveste -- jeg kalder ham Yoda,
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because you talk to the guy, you get an email from him,
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fordi taler man med fyren, får man en email fra ham,
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and you're like, "I'm not worthy. This guy's so amazing."
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og man siger, "Jeg er ikke værdig. Denne fyr er så fantastisk."
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The other thing we did
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Den anden ting vi gjorde
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is we flew seven programmers from all over the world --
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er at vi fløj syv programmører fra hele verden --
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literally every corner of the world --
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bogstavelig talt hvert hjørne fra verden --
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into our house.
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ind i vores hus.
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My wife and kids and I moved to our back garage,
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Min kone og børn og jeg flyttede til vores garage,
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and these hackers and programmers
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og disse hackere og programmører
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and conspiracy theorists and anarchists took over our house.
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og konspirationsteoretikere og anarkister overtog vores hus.
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A lot of our friends thought we were absolutely stupid to do that
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Mange af vores venner mente at vi var fuldkommen idioter for at gøre det
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and that we were going to come back
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og vi ville komme tilbage
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and all the pictures on the wall would be removed and graf on the walls.
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og alle billederne på væggen ville være fjernet og graffiti på væggene.
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But for over two weeks,
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Men i mere end to uger,
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we programmed,
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programmerede vi,
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we went to the Venice boardwalk,
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vi tog til Venice promenaden,
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my kids got involved,
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mine unger blev involveret,
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my dog got involved,
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min hund blev involveret,
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and we created this.
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og vi skabte dette.
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This is called the EyeWriter,
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Dette hedder EyeWriter,
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and you can see the description.
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og man kan se beskrivelsen.
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This is a cheap pair of sunglasses
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Dette er nogle billige solbriller
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that we bought at the Venice Beach boardwalk,
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som vi købte ved Venice Beach promenaden,
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some copper wire
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noget kobbertråd
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and some stuff from Home Depot and Radio Shack.
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og nogle ting fra Home Depot og Radio Shack.
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We took a PS3 camera, hacked it open,
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Vi tog et kamera fra en PS3, hackede det,
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mounted it to an LED light,
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satte det fast til en LED lampe,
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and now there's a device that is free --
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og nu er der et apparat der er gratis --
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you build this yourself, we publish the code for free,
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man bygger dette selv, vi udgiver koden gratis,
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you download the software for free.
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man downloader softwaren gratis.
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And now we've created a device
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Og nu har vi skabt et apparat
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that has absolutely no limitations.
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der absolut ingen begrænsinger har.
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There's no insurance company that can say "No."
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Der er ikke noget forsikringsselskab der kan sige "Nej."
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There's no hospital that can say "No."
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Der er ikke noget sygehus der kan sige "Nej."
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Anybody who's paralyzed now has access
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Enhver der er lammet har nu adgang
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to actually draw or communicate using only their eyes.
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til faktisk at tegne eller kommunikere ved brug af deres øjne.
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(Applause)
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(Bifald)
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Thank you.
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Tak.
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Thank you guys very much. That was awesome.
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Mange tak gutter. Det var fedt.
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So at the end of the two weeks,
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I slutningen af disse to uger,
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we went back to TEMPT's room.
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tog vi tilbage til TEMPTs værelse.
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I love this picture, because this is someone else's room
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Jeg elsker dette billede, fordi det er en andens værelse
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and that's his room.
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og dette er hans værelse.
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So there's all this hustle and bustle going on for the big unveiling.
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Der er al denne liv og røre til ære for den store afsløring.
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And after over a year of planning,
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Og efter mere end et år med planlægning,
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two weeks of programming,
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to ugers programmering,
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carb-fest and all-night sessions,
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kulhydrat-fest og nætter med arbejde,
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Tony drew again for the first time in seven years.
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Tony tegnede igen for første gang i syv år.
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And this is an amazing picture,
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Og dette er et fantastisk billede,
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because this is his life support system,
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fordi dette er hans hjerte-lungemaskine,
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and he's looking over his life support system.
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og han kigger over på sin hjerte-lungemaskine.
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We kicked his bed so that he could see out.
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Vi flyttede hans seng så han kunne kigge ud.
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And we set up a projector
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Og vi placerede en projektor
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on a wall out in the parking lot outside of his hospital.
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på en væg på parkeringspladsen udenfor hans sygehus.
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And he drew again for the first time,
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Og han tegnede igen for første gang,
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in front of his family and friends --
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foran hans familie og venner --
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and you can only imagine
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og man kan kun forestille sig
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what the feeling in the parking lot was.
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den følelse der var på parkeringspladsen.
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The funny thing was, we had to break into the parking lot too,
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Det sjove var, at vi også skulle bryde ind på parkeringspladsen,
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so we totally felt like we were legit in the whole graf scene too.
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så vi følte os totalt legitime på hele graffiti scenen.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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So at the end of this, he sent us an email,
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Så til slut, sendte han os en email,
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and this is what the email said:
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og dette er hvad der stod i den email:
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"That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years.
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"Det var første gang jeg har tegnet noget som helst i syv år.
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I feel like I had been held underwater,
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Det føles som om jeg er blevet holdt under vandet,
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and someone finally reached down
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og nogen endelig rakte ned
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and pulled my head up so I could breathe."
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og hev mit hoved op så jeg kunne trække vejret."
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Isn't that awesome?
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Er det ikke fedt?
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(Applause)
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(Bifald)
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So that's kind of our battle cry.
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Det er på en måde vores kampråb.
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That's what keeps us going and keeps us developing.
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Det er det der holder os i gang og sørger for at vi bliver ved med at udvikle.
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And we've got such a long way to go with this.
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Og der er så lang vej igen med dette.
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This is an amazing device,
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Dette er et fantastisk apparat,
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but it's the equivalent of an Etch A Sketch.
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men det svarer til en Etch A Sketch.
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And someone who has that kind of artistic potential deserves so much more.
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Og en der har den form for kunstnerisk potentiale fortjener så meget mere.
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So we're in the process of trying to figure out
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Vi er i gang med en process til at prøve at finde ud af
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how to make it better, faster, stronger.
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hvordan man kan gøre den bedre, hurtigere, stærkere.
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Since that time, we've had all kinds of acknowledgment.
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Siden dengang, har vi fået al mulig genkendelse.
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We've won a bunch of awards.
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Vi har vundet en stak priser.
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Remember, it's free; none of us are making any money on this thing.
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Husk på, den er gratis; der er ingen af os der tjener nogen penge på dette.
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It's all coming out of our own pockets.
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Det hele kommer ud af vores egen lomme.
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So the awards were like, "Oh, this is fantastic."
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Så priserne var lidt, "Åh, dette er fantastisk."
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Armstrong Twittered about us,
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Armstrong tweetede om os,
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and then in December, Time magazine honored us
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og i december, ærede magasinet Time os
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as one of the top 50 inventions of 2010, which was really cool.
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som en af top 50 opfindelser i 2010, hvilket var virkelig fedt.
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(Applause)
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(Bifald)
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The coolest thing about this --
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Den fedeste ting ved dette --
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and this is what's completing the whole circle --
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og dette er hvad der fuldender hele denne cirkel --
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is that in April of this year,
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er at i april i år,
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at the Geffen MOCA in downtown Los Angeles,
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ved Geffen MOCA i centrum af Los Angeles,
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there's going to be an exhibition called "Art of the Streets."
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vil der være en udstilling der hedder "Art of the Streets."
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And "Art of the Streets" is going to have
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Og "Art of the Streets" får
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pretty much the bad-asses of the street art scene --
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mere eller mindre de hårde negle fra gadekunst scenen --
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Banksy, Shepard Fairey, KAWS --
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Banksy, Shepard Fairy, KAWS --
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all of these guys will be there.
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alle disse gutter vil være her.
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TEMPT's going to be in the show,
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TEMPT vil være i showet,
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which is pretty awesome.
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hvilket er temmelig fedt.
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(Applause)
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(Bifald)
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So basically this is my point:
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Min pointe er dybest set dette:
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If you see something that's not possible,
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Hvis man ser noget der ikke er muligt,
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make it possible.
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gør det muligt.
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Everything in this room wasn't possible --
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Alt i dette lokale var ikke muligt --
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this stage, this computer, this mic, the EyeWriter --
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denne scene, denne computer, denne mikrofon, the EyeWriter --
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wasn't possible at one point.
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var ikke muligt på noget tidspunkt.
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Make it possible, everyone in this room.
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Gør det muligt, alle i dette lokale.
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I'm not a programmer,
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Jeg er ikke programmør,
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never done anything with ocular recognition technology,
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har aldrig gjort noget med okulær genkendelsesteknologi,
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but I just recognized something and associated myself with amazing people
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men jeg genkendte bare noget og associerede mig selv med fantastiske mennesker
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so that we could make something happen.
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så vi kunne få gennemført nogle ting.
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And this is the question I want everyone to ask yourself
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Og dette er spørgsmålet jeg vil stille alle
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every single day
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hver eneste dag
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when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done:
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når man finder på noget som man føler skal gøres:
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if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?
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hvis ikke nu, hvad så? Og hvis ikke mig, hvem så?
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Thank you guys.
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Tak gutter.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mick Ebeling - EntrepreneurMick Ebeling founded the Not Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems.
Why you should listen
Raised in a family of entrepreneurs and philanthropists, Mick Ebeling is founder of the Not Impossible Foundation, an organization comprised of thinkers, dreamers, and doers, with a mission to take ideas that once seemed impossible to possible, when the right people are connected and empowered.
After befriending ALS patient and renowned street artist Tempt, he and a team of programmers, hackers, artists and inventors developed the EyeWriter -- a low-cost eye-tracking device that allows artists with the nerve disease ALS to draw using only their eyes. Through his latest initiative, Project Daniel, he helped create a 3D-printed prosthetic lab in Sudan. His new book is Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done.
He is also the founder of The Ebeling Group, an international production company and creative think tank, representing some of the world's leading design and directing collectives.
He says: "If not now, then when? If not me, then who?"
Mick Ebeling | Speaker | TED.com