Andrew Pelling: This scientist makes ears out of apples
安德魯·佩爾霖: 這位瘋狂的科學家,用蘋果培養出耳朵
Andrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play. Full bio
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for old electronics,
turn things on and off.
into an awesome robot.
變成超棒的機器人。
a lot of stuff out of garbage,
改造出很多東西,
have even been kind of useful.
讓我有機會製造出
to amuse myself.
so I just made it part of my day job.
我白天工作的一部分。
biological research lab,
and exploration above all else.
on any particular problem,
any particular disease.
and find answers.
to build the equipment they need
利用我找到的這些垃圾,
from around the world
we value unconventional ideas,
我們著重在非常規的點子上,
I was taking it apart,
弄得像硬體ㄧ樣?
in some new and creative way?
tell me what fruit this is?
正確,這是一個蘋果。
That's right -- it's an apple.
than most apples.
we grew human cells into it.
Macintosh apple,
麥金塔蘋果,
after removing all the apple cells
their shape and texture.
the apple cells used to be.
that you can see in blue.
也就是螢幕上藍色的部份。
these guys start multiplying
of how our own tissues are organized.
人體的細胞組織架構。
these scaffolds into the body,
and a blood supply
when people started asking me,
body parts out of apples?"
培養出身體器官嗎?」
to the right place."
of wood carving for a living.
literally carve some ears
in the ear-manufacturing business.
製造耳朵為業。
on this for decades.
已經有數十年的經驗了。
really expensive and problematic,
from proprietary products,
to make these things.
can be built from garbage,
從廢物堆裡就能找到,
only requires soap and water.
僅需要肥皂和水。
the instructions online as open source.
製作步驟公開在網路上。
a mission-driven company,
to make it easier
and a soldering iron
about is if one day,
and augment our own bodies
那會是怎樣的世界?
your pee smell funny.
聞起來怪怪的。
and I was noticing
the stalks of these asparagus,
are all these tiny little vessels.
forms these structures.
of our nerves and spinal cord.
down these channels?
培養軸突和神經元?
to form new connections
and severed nerves.
working on this.
在這方面努力的研究室,
really promising pilot data.
that's all around me on this stage
my lab is involved in
所參與的研究工作,
of me playing with your garbage.
廢物堆裡開始玩起的。
of my scientific practice.
to be unconventional and to be creative
和「創新」的方式,
are looking at some old,
piece-of-crap technology,
to get in touch with me,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Pelling - BiohackerAndrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play.
Why you should listen
Scientist, professor, entrepreneur and TED Fellow Andrew Pelling has built a career on unapologetic curiosity, creativity and serendipity. He is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, where he founded and directs a curiosity-driven research lab that brings together artists, scientists, social scientists and engineers. The lab uses low-cost, open source materials and methods to explore speculative living technologies of the future. He has, for instance, created human body parts made from plants and grown living skins on LEGOs -- innovations with the potential to replace prohibitively expensive commercial biomaterials.
Pelling is also the co-founder and CTO of Spiderwort Inc., a mission driven company developing open source platforms to enable the widespread and global adoption of biological research in all environments and economic contexts. Most recently, he founded pHacktory, a street-level research lab in Ottawa that amplifies community ideas through a potent mixture of craft, serendipity and curiosity.
Pelling's work has been in the international media spotlight for many years, with recognition in outlets such as Wired, Huffington Post, NPR, Scientific American, Popular Science, BBC, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle and others, as well as numerous highlights in the Canadian media and Scientific media. He was named a TED Fellow in 2016.
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