that list you jump high about 5 to 6
meters and land safely at its core is
the yet to be invented search battery
which provides short bursts of
high-intensity current to drive those
high-speed propellers this is one of
those ideas I’m going to show it does
look fascinating but there are a lot of
question marks around it I think it will
take about 10 years before you can get
one of these ideas ideas ideas ideas
worth spreading that’s what r is below
the Tet logo which notifies that you
know what some ideas are just not worth
spreading some some ideas are just gone
and I’m not talking about the Batman
snuggie and the pet rock because because
those sell millions people millions
those are two brilliant ideas right
there I’m talking about legit
engineering or business ideas that will
never see the light of the day we all
have a lot of them especially us
engineers at MIT have too many of them
lots of ideas that will be forgotten
coming from academia I can tell you that
only about ten percent of the ideas will
be published in the form of a paper in
academia only one percent will be
patented and only about point one
percent will actually become a business
and do some good out there now these are
rough numbers but if you ask any
academic or innovator he or she will
probably agree with me this means that
only one in a thousand ideas will
actually do some good out there which is
an insanely low yield it takes about 10
to 15 years to publish hundred papers in
academia or come up with thousand ideas
even in top schools
so why is this happening why is it that
ninety percent of ideas just go nowhere
well you may say because some ideas are
dumb remember the Batman snidely handed
bedrock or use a fair answer but in fact
a very subjective one these two examples
show that an idea that might be
considered ridiculous and useless from
one’s perspective might actually be
interesting and successful from others
perspective Plus even if half of these
ideas we’re not working and just plain
wrong you still have forty-five percent
of good ideas that for some reason don’t
make it out there you want to know why
the majority of ideas actually don’t
make it out there because we don’t put
them out there the problem is not just
with the ideas but also with us
innovators we tend to abandon our ideas
because we don’t have enough confidence
in them or we don’t have immediate
interest or we tend to possess them and
lock them up because we think there are
too precious and there’s no other
options really i mean academic
publications are too time-consuming and
extremely narrow for these types of
ideas and patenting is expensive so I
turned to using online platforms I tried
using blogs youtube tedxtalks and none
of them work as efficiently as I wanted
to all these platforms takes a lot of
production a lot of cameras and gears
and all these lights and people behind
the scene to convey to you a single idea
and this heavy production actually puts
a lot of pressure on the idea tur so I
was losing hope on this I mean I have a
busy job and I couldn’t afford to spend
this much time on each idea until one
night as I was going through my older
idea sketchbooks I saw this design from
1999 which was an apparatus that was
supposed to let me see my gameboy color
screen in 3d this was basically my
earliest version of virtual reality
headset at the age of 16 which by the
way wouldn’t work because there was no
power
in the scene but the fact that I could
look at this one picture and understand
an idea from 17 years ago just hit me I
was like hmm a picture is worth a
thousand words what if he could fit
every idea into one picture one
beautiful comprehensive sketch that says
it all sounded like a great idea so I
started to build up my sketching skills
over the weekends and thanks to online
tutorials oven from something like this
to something like this in about a year
then I started to get connected to other
concept artists online and I discovered
this amazing platform called computer
graphics Society or CG society which is
a online platform that allows millions
of artists to share the illustrations
with each other in high resolutions this
is a great website for for artistic
studies it’s full of cool pictures of
aliens and robots but there’s not much
science going on here really and that’s
exactly what i want to change to get a
religious society we basically want to
bring the brains of MIT to the hands of
model studio artists how cool is that
the result is what we call the
imaginarium of technology a platform
that matches scientist with artists to
communicate ideas in beautiful pictures
a place where engineering ideas can come
to life and inspire you can upload your
idea in the form of an illustration if
you’re illustrating is good or if you
can describe it to an artist to
illustrate it these ideas are tagged and
organized into this gallery of sketches
so if you are interested in any of them
you can just click on it and learn about
the idea or even start a conversation
with the Creator some of these ideas are
published online immediately the others
are cherry picked by a panel of artists
and scientists from Marvel Studios and
MIT these cherry-picked ideas are then
showcased in met in events such as this
one or em IQ member
week where there are a lot of companies
present this gives these poor ideas the
chance to reach the right audience every
idea is tagged so it has a unique ID so
whoever is interested can directly
contact the creator and endorse the idea
or support the idea based on a mutual
agreement so far we have had three
exhibitions on different topics such as
future of virtual reality and autonomous
cars and these idea exhibitions have
been received a mail amazingly well
because pictures are powerful and they
can go beyond language barrier even yes
if you’re a company and you have IP
sensitive materials or if you’re if you
have conflict of interest then this
might not be the right platform for you
but if you are a creative individual
trying to impact a world by resurrecting
some of your other ideas let me assure
you that this is the best place to put
those kind of ideas into some use ok
I’ve been talking about 10 minutes now
to convey to you one idea of the
imaginal of technology in the Ted format
I will take now one minute to give you
two ideas in the form of two pictures
two pictures that can make an impact and
potentially save lives are ready for
this ok so here’s the infinity ladder
it’s a rollable ladder that is stretched
by your set of drums the drones fly up
to the wall and latched onto the top of
the wall and then you can climb up this
stretch letter there stretch ladder the
tagline reads no walls can ever stop
we can doesn’t work and the work that
way guys the simple engineering so
here’s another idea it’s a centimeter
sighs Mike robot it’s a centimeter sized
robotic pill that lives in your stomach
and is charged wirelessly some features
predict that you will have microbots
injected to our bloodstream in the
future but being an engineer I think
that’s far-fetched I think this is a
more practical solution so these robotic
pills will stay in your stomach and
monitor your diet and they will filter
out all the excessive toxins and things
like fat and sugar that is in there so
in the future you can feel less guilty
about your junk food diet the tagline
reads every diet is perfect okay so I
cannot suddenly quit my job and follow
all of these random ideas I think you
get the point now right but I hope you
know someone somewhere you know follow
these ideas and work on them okay one
all right i want to kick i want to thank
everyone who jumped on board with me and
made as possible this is really a call
to my fellow scientists and artists let
us come together and communicate
something at the peak of intellectual
value something that is both beautiful
and functional let us take another look
a second look at ideas not worth spreading thank you so much