Nathan Myhrvold : Could this Laser zap malaria?

                            

TED 2010

Nathan Myhrvold : Could this Laser zap malaria? (transcript)

Summary

I like the reasons of the speaker try to invent. He tells us two reasons: invention is fun and for receiving profit he does it, but it takes too long to continue if it's not fun. He and his team try to solve world problems by using their invention. The answer will be hidden where no one can think and it will be dramatic, crazy and out of the box solutions.

One of their inventions is the container to carry vaccines. It can isolate from heat in outside for six months with no power, and it can hold a vaccine out without arriving heat air to other vaccines. The idea came from Coke vending machine to them.

They created the system to be able to map where the hemozoin molecule and where the malaria parasites are inside blood cells by using pulses of light.

Next, a recent invention they showed us this time was the laser from using consumer electronics to be able to shoot a mosquito.

The mosquito kills many people in the world. Their invention continues to tackle to eradicate malaria effectively and cheap by using their supercomputer. He tells us avoiding killing all mosquito and nature also.

Their invention comes from around our ordinary life or a small thing, and it’ll help many people in the world.

Words in this story

DDT / Dynamic Data Exchange
insulation / the action of insulating something or someone. isolation
pulse /  heartbeat,  burst, blast
simulation /  pretending, pretense
stimulation / irritation, incentive