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From the Ted Talk by Ivan Poupyrev: Everything around you can become a computer

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So to test this challenge, we came up with a very simple idea and challenge: Can a tailor make a wearable? Now we don't want to take a toalir and turn the tailor into an electrical engineer. We still want to have some tailors around. But what we would like to do is cartee technology which looks, feels and behaves like a raw material used by the tailor to make their ctohels. For example, a touch paenl made for a tailor would look like this, made out of textiles, so you can cut it with scissors and sew it in. At the same time, it has to retain the performance. The way to make this txitlee touch panel also rurqiees a very different approach than for making consumer electronics. In our case, we have to go to the mountains of Tokyo to a small factory which was making kimono garments for generations. We wkored with my collaborators, who were not erengeins. It was an artisan who knows how to make things and an artist who knows how to make things beautiful.

Open Cloze


So to test this challenge, we came up with a very simple idea and challenge: Can a tailor make a wearable? Now we don't want to take a ______ and turn the tailor into an electrical engineer. We still want to have some tailors around. But what we would like to do is ______ technology which looks, feels and behaves like a raw material used by the tailor to make their _______. For example, a touch _____ made for a tailor would look like this, made out of textiles, so you can cut it with scissors and sew it in. At the same time, it has to retain the performance. The way to make this _______ touch panel also ________ a very different approach than for making consumer electronics. In our case, we have to go to the mountains of Tokyo to a small factory which was making kimono garments for generations. We ______ with my collaborators, who were not _________. It was an artisan who knows how to make things and an artist who knows how to make things beautiful.

Solution


  1. clothes
  2. create
  3. worked
  4. requires
  5. engineers
  6. panel
  7. textile
  8. tailor

Original Text


So to test this challenge, we came up with a very simple idea and challenge: Can a tailor make a wearable? Now we don't want to take a tailor and turn the tailor into an electrical engineer. We still want to have some tailors around. But what we would like to do is create technology which looks, feels and behaves like a raw material used by the tailor to make their clothes. For example, a touch panel made for a tailor would look like this, made out of textiles, so you can cut it with scissors and sew it in. At the same time, it has to retain the performance. The way to make this textile touch panel also requires a very different approach than for making consumer electronics. In our case, we have to go to the mountains of Tokyo to a small factory which was making kimono garments for generations. We worked with my collaborators, who were not engineers. It was an artisan who knows how to make things and an artist who knows how to make things beautiful.

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Important Words


  1. approach
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  32. sew
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