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This is a protocol diagram for malaria, so what we are doing in our laboratory is attacking this protocol at every point we can find. It has a very complex life cycle that I won't go into now, but it has spent some time in humans. time in the mosquitoes and what I need is

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s have a mind optimized for discovery, they have a mind optimized for discovering what is possible. I often illustrate this by saying that if you know, get some new random device and show it to them. Your mom might say well, what does this do? and you would tell her mom, it's a phone and instantly she would know exactly what it is for, but with a hacker the question is different.

The question is what can I do with this? I'm going to take out all the screws and take off the back and break it into many small pieces, but then I'll figure out what I can build from the rubble. That is a discovery and we have to do that in science and technology to discover it. what is possible and in the lab what I'm trying to do is apply that mindset to some of the biggest problems that humans have. We worked on malaria thanks to Bill Gates, who asked us to work on it. This is how we used to solve malaria. a real ad from the 1940s we eradicated malaria in the US by spraying DDT all over the lab.

What we do is a lot of work to try to understand the problem. This is a high speed

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camera trying to learn. how mosquitoes fly and you can see that they are more like swimming by mistake, we actually have no idea how they fly, but we have a cool video camera so we know that yes, it costs more than a Ferrari anyway, we are Some ways to take care of ourselves occurred. of mosquitoes, let's shoot with lasers, this is what happens, you know, when you put every kind of scientist in the room and a laser addict, so people thought it was funny at first, but we found out that we can build this.

In consumer electronics, the CCD of a webcam is used, the laser of a Blu-ray recorder, the laser beams of a laser printer, if we do motion detection in a GPU processor, as if it were a system of video games, everything follows Moore's line. law, so it's actually not going to be that expensive to do, the idea is that we would put a similar perimeter of these laser systems around a building or a village and we would just shoot all the mosquitoes in their path to feed on humans and we could I want to do that, you know, for your backyard, we could also do it to protect crops.

Our team is working right now to characterize what they need to do the same for the pests that have wiped out about two-thirds of the land. I think it's about two-thirds of the orange groves in Florida, so people laughed at first. This is a video of our system working. We are tracking mosquitoes live as they fly. Our computer puts those sights there, just watches them, finds the movement, and then takes aim. We point a laser at them to sample the frequency of their wings. We found out from that. Is this a mosquito? Is New Zealand terribly rigid?

It is female? And if all of that is true, then we take him down with a lethal laser, so we have this thing running in a lab. We are working on that, taking that project to the field. Now this is all happening at the Intellectual Ventures lab in Seattle, where I work, and we're trying to tackle some of the hardest problems that humans have, and this is the opportunity to make money, as you can see. burned his wing off with a UV laser, he's not coming back, he kind of vaporized his wing right there, yeah, they love it, I mean, you know, ever.