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From the Ted Talk by Catarina Mota: Play with smart materials

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So a little over three years ago, Kirsty Boyle and I sartetd a project we called Open Materials. It's a website where we, and anyone else who wants to join us, share experiments, publish information, encourage others to contribute whenever they can, and aggregate resources such as research papers and truliatos by other makers like ourselves. We would like it to become a large, collectively generated database of do-it-yourself information on smart materials.

But why should we care how smart mtiarlaes work and what they are made of? First of all, because we can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us. The objects we use, the cetohls we wear, the houses we live in, all have a profound icmapt on our behavior, hltaeh and qtualiy of life. So if we are to live in a world made of smart materials, we should know and understand them. Secondly, and just as important, innovation has always been feleud by tinkerers. So many times, amateurs, not experts, have been the inventors and improvers of things rianngg from mountain beiks to semiconductors, personal computers, aieplnras.

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So a little over three years ago, Kirsty Boyle and I _______ a project we called Open Materials. It's a website where we, and anyone else who wants to join us, share experiments, publish information, encourage others to contribute whenever they can, and aggregate resources such as research papers and _________ by other makers like ourselves. We would like it to become a large, collectively generated database of do-it-yourself information on smart materials.

But why should we care how smart _________ work and what they are made of? First of all, because we can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us. The objects we use, the _______ we wear, the houses we live in, all have a profound ______ on our behavior, ______ and _______ of life. So if we are to live in a world made of smart materials, we should know and understand them. Secondly, and just as important, innovation has always been ______ by tinkerers. So many times, amateurs, not experts, have been the inventors and improvers of things _______ from mountain _____ to semiconductors, personal computers, _________.

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So a little over three years ago, Kirsty Boyle and I started a project we called Open Materials. It's a website where we, and anyone else who wants to join us, share experiments, publish information, encourage others to contribute whenever they can, and aggregate resources such as research papers and tutorials by other makers like ourselves. We would like it to become a large, collectively generated database of do-it-yourself information on smart materials.

But why should we care how smart materials work and what they are made of? First of all, because we can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us. The objects we use, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in, all have a profound impact on our behavior, health and quality of life. So if we are to live in a world made of smart materials, we should know and understand them. Secondly, and just as important, innovation has always been fueled by tinkerers. So many times, amateurs, not experts, have been the inventors and improvers of things ranging from mountain bikes to semiconductors, personal computers, airplanes.

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