When I was young, I used to want

to design a utopian world.

As I got more mature, I realized

the world that I would love to live in

would be a world created by seven billion pairs of hands,

each making their own part of the world a better place.

My name is Jay Silver, I am a co-creator of Makey Makey.

And I was actually Intel's first Maker Research Scientist.

We don't try to teach people's minds,

we try to ignite people's hearts.

Makey Makey is a little circuit and it lets you hook up

everyday objects and repurpose their meaning.

You can grab bananas and hook them up to your laptop,

and connect them together with alligator-clips

and boom, you've got a banana piano.

(electronic piano music)

One place Makey Makey came out of is

physical contact with everyday objects.

The whole purpose of that is really so that

you can look around you, and you can think to yourself,

the world is really just a construction kit.

And meaning is something that I can designate.

I want to give everybody a little bit of experience

with giving new purpose to the world they live in.

I started at MIT for electrical engineering

and then I switched to media arts and sciences.

And I worked in a group called The Lifelong Kindergarten.

I got to use all my engineering experience

to bring user interfaces to life

that real people would use everyday.

And then I took what I learned there

in The Lifelong Kindergarten over to Intel

where I was a Maker Research Scientist.

Life is better when you can make your own solutions

and so what you want to receive on the other end

of the technology is something that you can put to use

in your own way and make something unique

that fits your lifestyle.

Can you show me how it works?

Yeah.

And so what we want to receive is

creative tools and powerful tools.

And that's something Intel is working on.

One thing that's cool about the Intel 2-in-1 PC

is that you really can compact it

and get some really powerful embedded prototyping going

with Makey Makey, it's pretty easy to get all that power

that's in the 2-in-1 PC and make it react

to the everyday environment so they're a good combo.

One of the things that I really like about Intel is that

it was founded by Makers

and I think the powerhouses of the future of the economy

are going to be places where there's a lot

of people who know how to make things.

And Intel is one of those places.

We believe that everybody can invent

and make things and change the world.

And that's why we invented Makey Makey.

When we make our world, we make a better world.

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