Scott Summit: Beautiful artificial limbs
Scott Summit uses his 20 years of experience as an industrial designer to make artificial limbs that help people take personal control of these intimate objects. Full bio
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with, or in this case,
lub, jak w tym wypadku,
with, for the most part.
in biology, chemistry or engineering,
chemicznego ani inżynieryjnego,
about biomedical engineering today.
bo dziś będę mówić o bioinżynierii.
making lots of things identical.
to upodabnianie wielu rzeczy.
there's something impersonal
że jest coś nieludzkiego
to design one thing for one person
aimed more to a demographic model
by the whole process in general,
and redesign designing altogether,
proces projektowania.
design inspirations,
wczesnych inspiracji,
and that got me to this guy.
i tak trafiłem na tego człowieka.
of him somewhere.
or the designer of designers.
lub też projektant projektantów.
a household word
gościła na ustach wszystkich
Six Million Dollar Man
"Six Million Dollar Man",
this pop culture show,
for a real person,
dla prawdziwego człowieka,
functional requirements;
funkcjonalnych wymaganiach.
way out in the fringe
the quality of life for somebody
komuś jakość życia,
for the rest of their life.
into a design philosophy,
w filozofię projektowania
into the studio that I have now;
to think along these lines.
żeby myśleli w ten właśnie sposób.
but it works for us.
ale u nas się sprawdza.
about prosthetic limbs
of functionality and performance
of an industrial designer,
or the beauty or the individual qualities
indywidualnych cech,
utilitarian devices.
użytkowymi urządzeniami.
for a lot of people, that doesn't work.
folią bąbelkową i taśmą,
stuffed with other gym socks
the shape that once was;
is not a mechanical entity,
czysto mechaniczne rozwiązania.
can address them.
our kinematic sculpture.
nasza kinematyczna rzeźba.
for mass production,
instead of hard geometry,
zamiast o twardej geometrii
i zamiast o podobieństwach.
by mass production,
individualized thing.
osobistego przedmiotu.
in the new design process,
procesu projektowania
when you scan somebody:
skanowania człowieka.
into your computer.
the surviving limb, mirror it over,
i tworzymy jej lustrzane odbicie.
will recreate symmetry --
przywraca symetrię.
and as hard to achieve
i trudnego do osiągnięcia
that, no matter what,
as their fingerprint.
jak odcisk palca.
of creating two identical things.
stworzyć dwóch identycznych rzeczy.
computer modeling, 3D CAD.
of the individual's taste and personality
print the results.
after the panels on a motorcycle
od paneli motocyklowych,
into a sculptural thing.
obiekt mechaniczny w rzeźbę.
it's really tricky to play soccer
where there used to be a leg.
that look like sporting gear.
sprzętu sportowego.
wyjęta ze sportowej torby.
he just pulled it out of the gym bag,
of his body came back to him.
wróciło mu odczucie posiadania ciała.
the ball, to feel the ball,
that original shape that he had had
pierwotny kształt nogi
is that the other members of the team
że koledzy z drużyny
as the amputee on the team.
becoming a focal point for him.
ale straciło to znaczenie.
very quiet value in that,
of James's personality and style.
ważną częścią osobowości i stylu Jamesa.
into what would be his calf.
co miało być jego łydką.
of his motorcycle.
you can't really tell at first glance
and where James starts.
between the two,
look like it could be human.
co by wyglądało jak człowiek.
unapologetically man-made,
elementy, morfologię
fajnie i pięknie,
cool and beautiful,
aż pokaże się światu
can't wait to show the world,
"To inwalida z protezą"
"He's an amputee with a prosthetic."
with something really cool going on.
what came out of it to be really sexy,
that lends itself well to 3D printing.
który łatwo dał się wydrukować w 3D.
the contour of the leg,
giving form to the lace.
przechodzące przez koronkę światło.
is you can see daylight through it.
is totally visible.
and shape and contours
formę, kształt i zarysy,
inną nogę dopasowaną do torebki,
that matched her purse,
where we laser-tattooed the leather,
wytatuowaną skórą,
from one minute to the next?
of somebody's personality as we can.
jak najwięcej z danej osobowości.
His will be finished next week.
kończymy jego projekt.
that we deal with.
timeless-type personality,
ponadczasowej osobowości.
but in polished nickel.
lecz z wypolerowanego niklu.
to show his tattoos,
into the leather.
because we can do this,
bo możemy to zrobić,
to what will be a part of him.
połączenie z osobowością.
we believe in that.
o którą nam chodzi.
of somebody's personal taste and choice,
czyjegoś stylu i wyboru
defining their body.
definiujący jej ciało.
and expressing something
odtworzenie i wyrażenie
what would be their body,
nastawienie czy ekstrawagancję,
and suggests them in the best way we can.
najlepiej, jak umiemy.
and this whole process:
i całego procesu.
to making one thing per person;
jedną rzecz dla pojedynczej osoby.
really lends itself well to complexity.
i pozwala na złożoność.
the work we're doing now.
poprzedził obecną pracę.
Lustrzane odbicie drugiej nogi.
It's symmetric to the other leg.
to create, curbside recyclable,
nadaje się do recyklingu,
about that all the time,
it works just great.
that I could go anywhere in the world
and a laptop computer,
i w kilka godzin stworzyć
for somebody, in a matter of hours,
drukowaną nogę małym kosztem.
printed leg for a very low cost.
we're finding it; we'll get there.
i stworzyliśmy to dla Johna.
and created this for John.
jego narzeczona zażartowała,
is that when his fiancee looked at this,
better than that leg."
what he goes through --
przez co John przechodzi.
there's something very valuable.
nie słyszał czegoś takiego.
"Nobody says that."
that this is a new type of design,
że ten nowy typ projektowania,
the original process on its head,
oryginalny proces,
between the designer and the end user,
między twórcą a użytkownikiem,
zrzeka się części kontroli,
some of the control --
into the process, and their taste.
to a greater change that's happening
products will be evaluated
produktu ma zależeć od tego,
indywidualnym potrzebom.
part of the DNA of the end product itself.
częścią DNA produktu.
on how well they address a unique person,
indywidualnego dopasowania,
in one of the first legs we did;
z pierwszych nóg, które zrobiliśmy.
that shape in eight years."
pierwszy raz od 8 lat.
and energy we put into it,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Scott Summit - Industrial DesignerScott Summit uses his 20 years of experience as an industrial designer to make artificial limbs that help people take personal control of these intimate objects.
Why you should listen
Scott Summit is the founder and chief technology officer of Bespoke Innovations. Founded in 2010 in collaboration with an orthopaedic surgeon, their focus is to create individualized artificial limbs that the patients themselves can choose and personalize. With more than 20 patents to his name, he has held faculty positions at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Singularity University. He is also the founder of industrial design firm Summit ID.
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