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My grandfather was a cobbler.

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Back in the day, he made custom-made shoes.

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I never got to meet him.

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He perished in the Holocaust.

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But I did inherit his love for making,

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except that it doesn't exist that much anymore.

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You see, while the Industrial Revolution

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did a great deal to improve humanity,

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it eradicated the very skill

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that my grandfather loved,

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and it atrophied craftsmanship as we know it.

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But all of that is about to change with 3D printing,

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and it all started with this,

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the very first part

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that was ever printed.

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It's a little older than TED.

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It was printed in 1983

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by Chuck Hull,

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who invented 3D printing.

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But the thing that I want to talk to you about today,

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the big idea that I want to discuss with you,

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is not that 3D printing

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is going to catapult us into the future,

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but rather that it's actually going

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to connect us with our heritage,

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and it's going to usher in a new era

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of localized, distributed manufacturing

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that is actually based

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on digital fabrication.

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So think about useful things.

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You all know your shoe size.

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How many of you know the size

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of the bridge of your nose

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or the distance between your temples?

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Anybody?

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Wouldn't it be awesome if you could,

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for the first time, get eyewear

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that actually fits you perfectly

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and doesn't require any hinge assembly,

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so chances are, the hinges are not going to break?

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But the implications of 3D printing

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go well beyond the tips of our noses.

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When I met Amanda for the first time,

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she could already stand up and walk a little bit

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even though she was paralyzed from the waist down,

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but she complained to me that her suit

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was uncomfortable.

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It was a beautiful robotic suit

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made by Ekso Bionics,

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but it wasn't inspired by her body.

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It wasn't made to measure.

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So she challenged me to make her something

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that was a little bit more feminine,

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a little bit more elegant,

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and lightweight,

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and like good tailors,

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we thought that we would measure her digitally.

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And we did. We built her an amazing suit.

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The incredible part about what I learned

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from Amanda is a lot of us are looking at 3D printing

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and we say to ourselves,

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it's going to replace traditional methods.

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Amanda looked at it and she said,

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it's an opportunity for me

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to reclaim my symmetry

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and to embrace my authenticity.

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And you know what? She's not standing still.

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She now wants to walk in high heels.

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It doesn't stop there.

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3D printing is changing

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personalized medical devices as we know it,

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from new, beautiful, conformal,

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ventilated scoliosis braces

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to millions of dental restorations

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and to beautiful bracings

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for amputees,

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another opportunity to emotionally reconnect

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with your symmetry.

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And as we sit here today,

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you can go wireless on your braces

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with clear aligners,

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or your dental restorations.

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Millions of in-the-ear hearing aids

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are already 3D printed today.

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Millions of people are served today

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from these devices.

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What about full knee replacements,

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from your data, made to measure,

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where all of the tools and guides are 3D printed?

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G.E. is using 3D printing

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to make the next generation leap engine

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that will save fuel to the tune

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of about 15 percent

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and cost for an airline

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of about 14 million dollars.

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Good for G.E., right,

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and their customers and the environment.

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But you know the even better news

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is that this technology is no longer reserved

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for deep-pocketed corporations.

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Planetary Resources, a start-up

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for space explorations

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is going to put its first space probe later this year.

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It was a fraction of the NASA spaceship,

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it costs a fraction of its cost,

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and it's made with less than a dozen moving parts,

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and it's going to be out in space later this year.

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Google is taking on this very audacious project

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of making the block phone, the Ara.

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It's only possible because of the development

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of high-speed 3D printing that for the first time

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will make functional, usable modules

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that will go into it.

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A real moonshot, powered by 3D printing.

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How about food?

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What if we could, for the first time,

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make incredible delectables

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like this beautiful TED Teddy here

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that is edible?

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What if we could completely[br]change the experience,

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like you see with that absinthe serving

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that is completely 3D printed?

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And what if we could begin to put ingredients

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and colors and flavors in every taste,

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which means not only delicious foods

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but the promise of personalized nutrition

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around the corner?

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And that gets me to one of the[br]biggest deals about 3D printing.

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With 3D printing, complexity is free.

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The printer doesn't care

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if it makes the most rudimentary shape

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or the most complex shape,

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and that is completely turning design

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and manufacturing on its head as we know it.

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Many people think that 3D printing will be

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the end of manufacturing as we know it.

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I think it that it's the opportunity to put

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tomorrow's technology in the hands of youngsters

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that will create endless abundance

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of job opportunities,

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and with that,

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everybody can become an expert maker

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and an expert manufacturer.

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That will take new tools.

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Not everybody knows how to use CAD,

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so we're developing haptics,

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perceptual devices

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that will allow you to touch

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and feel your designs

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as if you play with digital clay.

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When you do things like that,

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and we also developed things that takes

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physical photographs that are instantly printable,

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it will make it easier to create content,

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but with all of the unimagined,

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we will also have the unintended,

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like democratized counterfeiting

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and ubiquitous illegal possession.

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So many people ask me,

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will we have a 3D printer in every home?

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I think it's the wrong question to ask.

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The right question to ask is,

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how will 3D printing change my life?

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Or, in other words, what room in my house

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will 3D printing fit in?

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So everything that you see here

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has been 3D printed,

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including these shoes

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at the Amsterdam Fashion Show.

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Now these are not my grandfather's shoes.

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You know, these are shoes that represent

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the continuation of his passion

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for hyper-local manufacturing.

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My grandfather didn't get to see Nike

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printing cleats for the recent Super Bowl,

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which I think is kind of serendipitous,

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and my father didn't get to see me standing

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in my hybridized 3D printed shoes.

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He passed away three years ago.

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But Chuck Hull, the man that invented it all,

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is right here in the house today,

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and thanks to him,

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I can say, thanks to his invention, I can say

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that I am a cobbler too,

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and by standing in these shoes

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I am honoring my past

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while manufacturing the future.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)