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  • @GrantStinnett
    @GrantStinnett 10 лет назад +285

    Awesome! Can't wait for the "Just add water and grow your own new car!"

    • @muffinspuffinsEE
      @muffinspuffinsEE 10 лет назад +14

      lol you still think of cars when you see this XD

    • @XisoLate
      @XisoLate 10 лет назад +3

      Riccardo Bestetti And it runs on water man!

    • @TrollingDr
      @TrollingDr 10 лет назад +2

      XisoLate and it also run on the water

    • @hmmm7250
      @hmmm7250 10 лет назад +12

      Crash it . . . . Oh my . . . . . Hold on . . . . wait a few minutes . . . . Hmmm . . . . continue driving like nothing happened :-)

    • @JaredAllaway
      @JaredAllaway 10 лет назад +2

      Hmmm and it would be driving itself too, no car insurance, no tickets for texting and driving. No garbage truck drivers, no postal truck drivers, no pizza delivery drivers, etc.

  • @RobertShaverOfAustin
    @RobertShaverOfAustin 8 лет назад +423

    I hope IKEA can make their stuff self-assemble.

    • @DxBlack
      @DxBlack 7 лет назад +23

      And self-fall apart...

    • @W4ldgeist
      @W4ldgeist 7 лет назад +11

      They already do that. Takes a couple of months to a year. Great tech :D

    • @polemic1877
      @polemic1877 5 лет назад +2

      4D printing is a good idea. That's taking scam to the next level. "Didn't receive our product? Well, did you look in the fourth dimention?"
      We don't even have 3D-printers yet, much less 4D.

    • @spookeylordzey8432
      @spookeylordzey8432 5 лет назад +1

      Pole Mic what do you mean we don't have 3-d printers?

    • @cosmosity1693
      @cosmosity1693 4 года назад

      @@W4ldgeist I know such great "4D" subtractive manufacturing. It's even better than 5-axis CNCing!

  • @charackthe
    @charackthe 8 лет назад +166

    My vga cable bends itself back its kinda same thing

    • @BronyLuck1538
      @BronyLuck1538 7 лет назад +15

      Yavuz Ekim Bovkır oh god, mine does the same thing. I knew there was something sketchy going on here. My cables are attempting to create themselves in 4d.

    • @almosthuman4457
      @almosthuman4457 6 лет назад +1

      🤣

  • @jamesmiller3893
    @jamesmiller3893 8 лет назад +44

    The first thing that popped into my mind was a space ship loaded with millimeter thick sheets that when laid out on the Moon, Mars or in space could, when activated transform themselves into habitable structures.

    • @Quazi-moto
      @Quazi-moto 5 лет назад +2

      I can't see me trusting an enclosure that's only half a millimeter thick, especially on another planet.

    • @spookeylordzey8432
      @spookeylordzey8432 5 лет назад +5

      quazzie1 you can put multiple sheets next to each other so they're more than 1mm THICC

    • @SapioiT
      @SapioiT 5 лет назад +1

      @@spookeylordzey8432 hen what's the point? Better use a balloon!

    • @Krytern
      @Krytern 4 года назад +3

      @@spookeylordzey8432 If they aren't somehow fused together, that still isn't structurally sound

  • @sentdex
    @sentdex 10 лет назад +136

    It seems people are confusing 4 dimensions with the proposed "4th dimension."
    You can program 2 dimensional arrays... 3 dimensional arrays... OR TEN dimensional arrays. You can even program 500 dimensional arrays. That must blow some of your minds.

    • @Skyoneder
      @Skyoneder 10 лет назад +13

      does not compute, I'd be impressed if it can create a lifelike chick who can fulfull my sexual pleasures.

    • @EXOglobe
      @EXOglobe 10 лет назад +9

      Skeelo Get a baby chicken stuff animal and wrap it around your hand.

    • @tyraelarchangel183
      @tyraelarchangel183 8 лет назад +8

      +sentdex Arrays really aren't hard to understand when you get down to it from a simple computer science standpoint.
      A 1 dimensional array is an array, a "single line" of elements. A 2d array is an ARRAY containing an Array. That basically every element of the first 1D array, contains another 1D array. Same process continues. A 3d array is an array containing an array which in turn contains the final array. Anything beyond 3D/4D is hard to visualize or impossible, yes. But you basically extend the concept of arrays containing arrays.
      Not really mind blowing, just a simple concept.

    • @jensstegeby6141
      @jensstegeby6141 6 лет назад +6

      But what he does is more like putting a string of commands in the third lvl of the array and calling it a 4th dimension.

    • @onee
      @onee 6 лет назад +2

      Are we confusing it or is Skylar Tibbits confusing it?

  • @chackysbills5129
    @chackysbills5129 10 лет назад +34

    This guy is like me when I was in high school turning in an essay. I had a great title with neat font, lots of colors, neat transparent folder to tuck my essay into but then I get a D+ for content and not citing sources.

    • @crusindc5282
      @crusindc5282 3 года назад +4

      Those two problems actually can be solved easily, if anyone had taught you how.
      1) Any time you are doing student or professional reading, key in or write out the interesting quotes along with the citation.
      2) Maintain an ongoing bibliography of stuff you are reading.
      Then when you go for your degree or graduated degree you will already have 2/3 of the classwork already completed. Academic papers average 3 quotes per page.
      3) START you essay by selecting a string of quotes that flow from one to the next harmoniously before you ever add a word of your own.
      5). Dump your ideas into those containers, and you have the problems managed. You had the ideas all the time. Nobody had taught you a method/of rocesd for organizing and displaying them.
      The challenge when writing an essay is that you have to have a process for excluding infinity. The problem isn't getting enough to say but in figuring out what to exclude.
      4). Learn 'rhetorical modes.'. The complete list of them included 9. Write the introduction last as a summary of what you have written and shape the summary as a definition paragraph or section. Write the conclusion as a persuasive paragraph or section. In a thesis it dissertation, include a section/chapter in each rhetorical mode in order to get the required length, unless some other structure becomes obvious to you.

  • @C00LX100
    @C00LX100 10 лет назад +14

    20 years from now and this guy will sweep the world with claytronics

  • @feraudyh
    @feraudyh 9 лет назад +14

    They were not beakers at 3.56 but flasks.
    There you go, I have had my pedantic moment.
    Apart from that the presentation is fascinating.

  • @bryandrap123
    @bryandrap123 9 лет назад +195

    Its still 3D though

    • @xZerplinxProduction
      @xZerplinxProduction 8 лет назад +66

      +Bryan Draper just like those 3d movies called 4d because the chairs shakes

    • @LaPingvino
      @LaPingvino 8 лет назад +7

      +Bryan Draper depends on your definition of dimension ;)

    • @ACMHK11
      @ACMHK11 7 лет назад +5

      ikr, should be called virtual 3D instead.

    • @atulpurna1936
      @atulpurna1936 6 лет назад

      you are correct in a sense

    • @xres1329
      @xres1329 5 лет назад +3

      Variable shape 3D. I have REAL 4D printing in mind, we should try it!

  • @jaredcaspertyler1323
    @jaredcaspertyler1323 10 лет назад +110

    it would be cool if we had like shoelaces that tied themselves though lol

  • @jeangodecoster
    @jeangodecoster 9 лет назад +301

    I shared this to my oral expression students as a counter-example of a good presentation.
    This guy talks about a fascinating subject, but exhibits such stoicism and lack of passion with regards to his presentation that it feels like he lost the bet on "who will do the presenting"

    • @biker451
      @biker451 9 лет назад +9

      jean-gobert de coster He must have had a bet going with his friends about how many times he could use "this is" in 40 seconds. 6 times probably would win that bet. One of the worst presentations, and presenter, that I've seen.

    • @cevxj
      @cevxj 6 лет назад

      Ok.

    • @koko56
      @koko56 6 лет назад +26

      I think it depends on your background. If you are engineering/handyman based this is quite interesting because you are going through concepts in your mind and the possibilities they entail.

    • @andresvaldivia9078
      @andresvaldivia9078 6 лет назад +11

      I agree, only because of the subject I was fascinated!

    • @davidhelmer149
      @davidhelmer149 6 лет назад

      Burn

  • @nicoleyizhenke
    @nicoleyizhenke 5 лет назад +2

    This makes me think of the animation - Big Hero 6.
    So amazing to see this cool technology might emerge someday.

  • @siddharthshetty4559
    @siddharthshetty4559 8 лет назад +7

    I didn't get this
    From where did that strand inside water get the energy to transform into a cube or MIT

    • @TrungNguyen-mj2id
      @TrungNguyen-mj2id 5 лет назад

      Like you dipping a sponge into water, from where did it get the energy to get it expand.

  • @gizachewdiga7648
    @gizachewdiga7648 Год назад

    The best lecture. The illustration from 0D (quantum dots) - 4D (multiphase materials).It has got an application in modeling of Nanostructure, proteins, Biochips, Microchips, and bioelectroics. Thanks!

  • @DeathToCockroaches
    @DeathToCockroaches 10 лет назад +7

    The figures he choose are a bit abstract for demonstration I think

  • @ReplayTJ
    @ReplayTJ 11 лет назад +2

    This seems like a great technological advancement. I'm excited to see when this can be put to use.

  • @individualone
    @individualone 5 лет назад +5

    3d printing is getting cooler and cooler... it's revolutionizing our reality!AWESOME 👍

  • @joemaffei
    @joemaffei 11 лет назад +1

    I can see this being used to manufacture emergency rafts for ships. You could have a whole fleet of folded rafts that are compact to store and take their shape when in contact with water.

  • @RamLaska
    @RamLaska 5 лет назад

    Reminds me of The Diamond Age v Hackworth's chevalier.
    It printed on a small public "3d printer" (that word had not yet been coined when the book was written), and unfolded into a mechanical horse.

  • @TheDrumEquation
    @TheDrumEquation 11 лет назад +2

    I'm so impressed with your knowledge...

  • @JRo250
    @JRo250 11 лет назад

    I'm going to bookmark this talk as my go-to reference for the latest acronyms and buzz words. That was great!

  • @15sowens
    @15sowens 11 лет назад

    How would one get ahold of one of those beaker/jars?

  • @KevinHigby
    @KevinHigby 11 лет назад

    Thank you! This is not very widely-known information, and it's refreshing to see it stated so clearly. There's a lot of confusion about this all over youtube. I think there are more comments on this video about the presenter's interpretation of "dimensions" than about the actual technology he's talking about.
    Simply put, he's talking about printing objects using all four dimensions, the three spacial dimensions AND the time dimension. Quite interesting, really.

  • @sarwan476
    @sarwan476 5 лет назад +1

    4D printing is just a fancy name for 3D printing of shape memory alloys, which is a fancy name for multilayer 2D printing.

    • @darkcyborgsuperman9521
      @darkcyborgsuperman9521 2 года назад

      That's like saying a Tesseract is an automated cube ,just saying.😅

  • @ra8620
    @ra8620 4 года назад

    Studying the atomic bonding infrastructure when you bend a pipe what is the change of the atomic structure in the effected area where was the force or heat or tharmal energy was implied.

  • @juraj3315
    @juraj3315 5 лет назад +1

    I seems to me that the biggest problem of such structures is that you need energy supply throughout the structure and in the case of self correcting structures you practically need abundance of it.
    Would explain why most "self-assembling" structures are on a nano scale.

  • @lisssabakergaal
    @lisssabakergaal 11 лет назад +1

    Simply amazing!

  • @DocHephaestus
    @DocHephaestus 11 лет назад

    Please link me to some info on that? Appreciate much.

  • @LeonidasGGG
    @LeonidasGGG 11 лет назад +1

    This is really, really awesome... Imagine the applications. :O

  • @helmus2000
    @helmus2000 11 лет назад

    how does a light switch changes shape ?

  • @powertothepeople12
    @powertothepeople12 10 лет назад

    One major obstacle I'm curious to see how they're going to overcome is how to control these transformations more. For example, the string seemed to transform from straight string to MIT with a touch, and keeping it at the MIT form seemed simple enough but what if one wanted to keep it in its string form?

  • @jeromegoodwin3848
    @jeromegoodwin3848 6 лет назад

    Bull is it made in the finial shape then changed until it is needed in the finial shape which is obtained by heat or other means.

  • @TheFolkUtopia
    @TheFolkUtopia 11 лет назад

    Using 4D to describe this does two things; allows for a different take on the concept and also using the debate to draw attention to the new concept. Nice presentation.

  • @InfiniteUniverse88
    @InfiniteUniverse88 10 лет назад +1

    The time variable is present in 3D printing as well. Electrons don't just stand still.

  • @TheMinimumPC
    @TheMinimumPC 11 лет назад +1

    Thanks for your nice comment :D

  • @FrozenguyRS
    @FrozenguyRS 5 лет назад +1

    Man is a beast of marketing.

  • @johnsonhoang1090
    @johnsonhoang1090 9 лет назад +1

    This might have some application in cardiovascular stents! very awesome

  • @nicklaw2807
    @nicklaw2807 11 лет назад +1

    Amazing development. Keep up the good work.

  • @heddie152
    @heddie152 11 лет назад +1

    We live in such an amazing time in history for science.

  • @comatoastlife
    @comatoastlife 3 года назад

    Literally throwing metals at a hurricane and a truck comes out lol

  • @derekwood3980
    @derekwood3980 10 лет назад +7

    Sounds like SKYNET

  • @KevinHigby
    @KevinHigby 11 лет назад

    Minutephysic's channel did a great video on dimensions. Basically, what they said was that a dimension is simply a parameter with which matter can be described. 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D simply describe the numbers of parameters matter has, but none of them specifically refer to any parameter. For example everything in our universe consists of 3 spacial dimensions and 1 time dimension (pretty much). Time isn't THE 4th dimension, but it is one of the four parameters of a 4D system.
    Hope that helps. :)

  • @deejaycalanoc
    @deejaycalanoc 5 лет назад +2

    I used to do the same thing with the paper casing of a straw. Scrunch it into an accordion shape, pull it off the straw and put a drop of water on it and BAM! I would of done a Ted Talk for a fraction of his pay!

  • @krazybassist64
    @krazybassist64 11 лет назад

    Michael Crichton's "Prey". What a visionary, RIP

  • @ClemonsKunkel
    @ClemonsKunkel 5 лет назад +2

    Very Cool. 4D printing is awesome. Heat changes water changed it cold changes it. That is the future. I Love TED talks. the guy was like a robot though he didn't have a lot of passion. It was a lot of good science but no passion still good though. People want passion when they see something, most anyway. Very to the point and right on with the information that's also important. I love the Talk.

  • @trpyman
    @trpyman 11 лет назад

    I want that beaker thing

  • @Ieripk
    @Ieripk 11 лет назад

    This is so cool! Technology never ceases to develop and surprise me.

  • @sether255
    @sether255 11 лет назад

    he raises a valid point. before the candle maker could learn to make light bulbs, here they would learn the new job of creating self replicating objects, a job they would lose after the first one was made.

  • @convergenceof1312
    @convergenceof1312 6 лет назад +1

    This is awesome.... great job

  • @richardjones4259
    @richardjones4259 5 лет назад

    Very interesting and thought provoking!

  • @hpesoj501
    @hpesoj501 11 лет назад

    im thinking of a device that could be kept in the home "print" meds. and thanks for your input

  • @mathewstubbs2117
    @mathewstubbs2117 4 года назад +1

    Brilliant but....pipelines - so would the pipe diameter increase with flow demand? Problems - clashes with other services like electricity or sewerage after expansion, weaker pipe due to expansion but increase in forces due to flow increase. Flow is dependant on the storm intensity and sometimes pit inlet surcharge is intentional for stormwater design, for example a q100 (1 in 100 year storm event), where hydrology becomes more important than hydraulics. Would the pipe attempt to correct itself outside of design parameters? From a geotechnical standpoint how would this effect topography? What happens to the extra volume of dirt once a pipe increases in diameter? How would an increase in pipe size upstream effect smaller downstream pipes given the variance of rainfall within different catchment areas? If constructed in upper parts of the catchments, the entire downstream would also need replacing (catchments are considered during design for both major and minor stormwater events), and pipe sizing is well thought out and crucial to avoid property damage, flooding and personal injuries. Water pipelines - always under pressure (hydraulic grade line is higher than top of pipe and does not rely on gravity). If pipe size increases, so does volume and capacity - however, incresing pipe diameter decreases in a lower pressure in the system that will not only effect both commercial and residential property water supply but also could reduce pressure to hydrants the is crucial in emergency situations for fire fighters.
    Food for thought anyways.

  • @CCPearce
    @CCPearce 8 лет назад +2

    MIND BLOWN.

  • @jamaicanlumberjack
    @jamaicanlumberjack 10 лет назад +1

    Well done. Well done.

  • @shwhjw
    @shwhjw 8 лет назад

    Settings -> Speed -> 1.25

  • @repthedeaf4236
    @repthedeaf4236 5 лет назад

    4-D printing can be more than creating a new way of production. The idea behind is that you can take multi-material 3D printing so you can deposit multiple materials and you add a new capability which is transformed right out of the bed. The parts can transform from one shape to another shape directly on their own.

  • @HunterRodrigez
    @HunterRodrigez 11 лет назад

    i like your way of thinking sir

  • @andy4an
    @andy4an 11 лет назад

    Great TED talk.

  • @pozionmynd
    @pozionmynd 10 лет назад

    ...how does it work???

  • @aslt5711
    @aslt5711 6 лет назад +1

    I wonder how all of these great minds can organize themselves and form teams that work together to bring something new to the world.. like.. how is it even done?..

    • @crusindc5282
      @crusindc5282 3 года назад

      Usually somebody pays them to hang out together or let's them use their garage.

  • @DakotaMartinez32
    @DakotaMartinez32 10 лет назад +3

    so materials that can repair themselves with a little kinetic or electric energy?

    • @juraj3315
      @juraj3315 5 лет назад

      I have a hunch that it's not "little" energy as I would assume it to be quite inefficient (working with random forces or energy transferred through the whole surface).

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid 11 лет назад

    5:40 tried the site, it's hidden behind a login wall :(

  • @TutoLab
    @TutoLab 7 лет назад +1

    and Boom! that's how capsule corp came out

  • @ductuslupus87
    @ductuslupus87 11 лет назад

    Ted really does put some good stuff on this.

  • @weepingod
    @weepingod 11 лет назад

    i tink its accurate as the product changes shape over time instead of being a static 3d object.

  • @9mmwaffle.
    @9mmwaffle. 5 лет назад +9

    Seems too early to really have anything to present

  • @DanielLimmy
    @DanielLimmy 9 лет назад

    This is very impressive!

  • @Exceltrainingvideos
    @Exceltrainingvideos 11 лет назад

    Very very interesting!

  • @FreeFromWar
    @FreeFromWar 11 лет назад

    So what do you think 4d means?

  • @Pollution122
    @Pollution122 11 лет назад

    I've seen a number of articles about origami satellites over the last couple of years, very reminiscent

  • @lanceroark6386
    @lanceroark6386 6 лет назад +1

    THIS IS EXACTLY HOW EVOLUTION WORKS!! BY DESIGN!!!

  • @OrlandoMGarcia
    @OrlandoMGarcia 4 года назад

    7:20 starting the presentation i just imagine a pipe for the exhaust of cars that adapts to heat and airflow, changing from straight pipe to helix, or the x pattern to h pattern it woud make more eficiient all kind of ICE cars

  • @jasonnewbon1803
    @jasonnewbon1803 11 лет назад

    well said

  • @BestHBCU
    @BestHBCU 7 лет назад

    Reminds me of Star Trek Voyager's bio-neural circuitry or experiments from Star Trek the Next Generation's Wesley Crusher.

  • @TGPadm
    @TGPadm 11 лет назад

    i think he is speaking of 4D as time, and he is "printing" not just for "one" time but he is designing stuff with shapes over an interval of time, in some sense printing in 4D

  • @roseteax
    @roseteax 11 лет назад +1

    This is amazing

  • @Chuck.1715
    @Chuck.1715 6 лет назад

    I don't know what everyone has with additional space dimensions, we use tri-axial system to mesure objects so we have 3D world (sometimes it is needed to add fourth dimension the "time"). It is just an perception and it's not written in stone that we must use it. The reality is more like chaos of particles with vector and speed. But it is not a chaos, each action has corresponding reaction, and even every photon moove affects each surrounding particle and that creates the white noise of quantum mechanics, whitch is not random at all, we just can't see trough and when we try to we are projecting our perception into the quantum world that we see.

  • @gexman31
    @gexman31 11 лет назад

    It would be cool if there were a material that could change it's Young's Modulus based off some transient input. Kinda like piezocrystals, but with the change being permanent.

  • @michaelmasters5217
    @michaelmasters5217 2 года назад

    Wow really cool wheres ur company located at I would love to apply

  • @MatchstalkMan
    @MatchstalkMan 11 лет назад

    I need a 4D Space-Time printer - my boss wants these parts yesterday!

  • @gimpdoctor8362
    @gimpdoctor8362 11 лет назад

    there are different types of dimensions. the 4th dimension is often referred to as time because it's "a" fourth that we commonly encounter. the 4th spacial dimension however is not time.

  • @teunvl95
    @teunvl95 11 лет назад

    It's a psychological defence mechanism to not be nervous while giving a presentation to a group op people.

  • @dimaster5880
    @dimaster5880 10 лет назад

    fantastic!

  • @nidodson
    @nidodson 11 лет назад

    Reminds me of Ancient Greece philosophers reading someone speak like that, and that last line reminds me of Ancient Roman stories, haha. That is an insane concept, and one that really leads to many questions.
    How many people would still contribute to bringing society forward? How many would just reproduce? How many would degrade the quality of society? What would be the balance? The religious right should be supporting it to have more time dedicating themselves to their religions.

  • @1337w0n
    @1337w0n 11 лет назад

    2074. In March. On the 26th. At ~3:08 pm (15:08) (UTC ±0).

  • @crimsonpotemkin
    @crimsonpotemkin 11 лет назад +1

    this is amazing

  • @phunmaster2000
    @phunmaster2000 11 лет назад

    yeah i realized how much easier 4d printing would be for shipping and manufacturing soon after I posted that.

  • @TheLivirus
    @TheLivirus 11 лет назад

    If you consider time a dimension, an object that changes shape over time is 4D. However, using this definition, many of the objects we normally consider 3D are in fact 4D.

  • @brendansullivan4872
    @brendansullivan4872 4 года назад

    Very cool stuff here!

  • @davidclaywood
    @davidclaywood 10 лет назад

    Totally Awesome creative thinking. There is allot of innovation to be done yet but I am glad that it is being done.

  • @MikaelMurstam
    @MikaelMurstam 11 лет назад

    I was just thinking about water pipes like that today -_-. Weird!

  • @Heynicetie
    @Heynicetie 6 лет назад

    I had a magic wand like that, that used elastic to make it look like it could raise in your palm. That's what I got out of this talk. A memory.

  • @cthorm
    @cthorm 11 лет назад

    Stick with the example of plumbing. Notice anything familiar about the 'pipes' at 7:22? That's how the esophagus and intestines work. It is more complex to design in the beginning, but is more resilient and requires less maintenance over time.

  • @ChongTastik
    @ChongTastik 11 лет назад +1

    Molecular graphing? I'm sure it's been applied already. But definitely always room for innovation!

  • @ultrapowermae
    @ultrapowermae 8 лет назад +2

    So... Legos with magnets? Modular element with one or more "low energy states"?

  • @LilRedRasta
    @LilRedRasta 10 лет назад

    Can titanium change shapes at will when you add a bit of water, heat or sound? Can entire buildings build themselves? Can water pipes expand and contract at will depending on how much water is flowing through? But you're right this definitely isn't anything new.

  • @racingwitsify
    @racingwitsify 7 лет назад

    This seams more of a reflex than a self assembling anything. Phone cord is pulled parcially strait then recoils. Looks like the same thing.

  • @KemaTheAtheist
    @KemaTheAtheist 11 лет назад

    It's not being bigger that makes 4D. It's that things printed already have the ability to transform right off the printer.

  • @srimansrini
    @srimansrini 11 лет назад

    Skylar Tibbits of M.I.T presents a talk about 4D Printing and how it going to change our 'material world' in the future. Though bit far-fetched but we should not deny its practical use. worth watching. recommended.

  • @jessicaleblanc9908
    @jessicaleblanc9908 5 лет назад +1

    LOL 2013 ... wow this did not go anywhere