Lego for the Blind | Matthew Shifrin

Lego for the Blind | Matthew Shifrin | TEDxSuffolkUniversity

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5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Shifrin is working on a cutting edge device that makes virtual reality accessible for blind people. Shifrin, who is blind since birth, attributes his ability to innovate to one thing. Watch this short, charming talk, to understand what has been like for him to stay creative since he was thirteen. Matthew works hard to deliver exciting and ejoyable experiences to blind people in different creative ways. His goal is for every blind person to build a mini LEGO world and make the impossible possible. He also began a project with an engineer from the MIT Media Lab which recently won the MIT $15K Creative Arts Competition. This project creates Virtual-reality comics for the blind using 3D sound, and a head-mounted array of spinning gyroscopes which simulate motions such as flipping and flying. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@german8431 5 жыл бұрын

I really admire the way of how he express himself through his voice, he has so much emotions inside him, so much thoughts, imagination, that made me think about myself and how lucky I am to see the world, to see my life Thanks

@davidangelov5922 5 жыл бұрын

A singer at heart

@ohiothegreat5382 5 жыл бұрын

YOU’RE AMAZING! Holy cow!! I’m going into college for industrial design and mechanical engineering and you’re my hero. Keeping me inspired while expanding my mind to the experiences of others. Thank you for being you. I really hope you are doing well. Cheers everybody :) (Oh I have some ideas if you’d care to hear them. Imagine 2 beetles crawling under a rug. You could lay your hands on the carpet and feel their actions. Now imagine a computer screen with pixels that could raise up and represent movement clearly. Again you could lay your hands on the screen. Imagine two army’s clashing... or a high speed car chase or Maybe instead of just single pixels we did larger scenes that could shift and change? Maybe more than one level of elevation? Maybe we could do thermal transfer in each pixel so you can feel the warmth of a fire or a hot engine Maybe we could put sound over it and give blind people another way to enjoy media. If it was designed as a Braille e-reader it could have the precision necessary for movies and tv. I love your work and hope you continue. You’re truly inspiring I have so many new ideas.)

@carnivoroussarah 5 жыл бұрын

Your enthusiasm is marvelously contagious!

@motya105 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Mit made a device, like the one you describe, called the Transform. You can play Mario on it, and touch the playing field, so blind people can play it on their own.

@richardthesalesman6576 5 жыл бұрын

Im so happy to support the one of best event in the world

@lydiarowe491 5 жыл бұрын

Determined to remember the friend who had got this whole project started gave impetus to a new experiences...⭐ Gifting this to others making it even more joyous.

5 жыл бұрын

This man is admirable

@bonniesf6719 5 жыл бұрын

Very inspiring! And enlightening! Thanks for sharing these experiences and encouraging us to be passionate and share that passion with those who otherwise would not be able to live our passion!

@michaelaeremiasova3669 5 жыл бұрын

Matthew, I'm so proud of you! This is so incredible and definitely so inspiring!

@SXHQQSSS 5 жыл бұрын

Great Talk!! Great Job!! You're a blessing to the Blind!! Cheers,

@saffrith 5 жыл бұрын

This is really great, so proud of the group Xx

@kellyhayes 5 жыл бұрын

What an amazing guy!

@MykFroopy88 5 жыл бұрын

I really want to hear the argument of the 26 👎. Must be the generic Block lobby or something

@user-nx4to7vh9d 3 жыл бұрын

非常感謝創立這個平臺的先生或小姐分享那麼多成功者精彩的演講，不過，我個人建議能夠配上中文及英文的字幕，讓更多聽不懂中國話或聽不懂英語的觀眾都能學習，我覺得會是更棒，謝謝！

@ArkinMC 5 жыл бұрын

10:10 well, even as a seeing person i imagine this quiet exciting, interesting to say the least.

@sukruthipattabi3004 5 жыл бұрын

Its was amazing... !! loss of a one sense among the best 5 did not stop him from achieving thing ..

@illygah 6 ай бұрын

best ted talk of all time

@illygah 6 ай бұрын

Also; this man plays the accordion, a notoriously difficult instrument to learn. This man learned how to learn learning.

@Xcrossy 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@abdulazeez.98 4 жыл бұрын

This is really inspiring

@asphxdel 2 жыл бұрын

i really, really want to do something to help blind people. i once tried to offer reading for them or recording audio books but i've been told that it just want needed. i wish i knew how to contribute and make things more accessible.

@SimonHawkin 5 жыл бұрын

Motya is the best.

@lifeandliterature5547 5 жыл бұрын

It's wonderful to see a young man working passionately to bring his creative vision to reality. May God bless him in his endeavours! And may we all discover our creative talents and the zeal to pursue them!

@non-human3072 5 жыл бұрын

:-( tried to download the text from there website.... no luck

@motya105 5 жыл бұрын

Non - The site was getting updated, it should work now.

@chancellorpalpatine8921 5 жыл бұрын

I love lego

@robertjeffery3237 5 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@samuellai100 5 жыл бұрын

Man xD great to see brain craft once again

@richardthesalesman6576 5 жыл бұрын

Great

@jonahtroy 5 жыл бұрын

1:35 there's a clock to show the speaker how much he has... but he's blind

@Convolutedtubules 5 жыл бұрын

This truly is quite inspiring.

@SereneSoakingSounds 3 жыл бұрын

Just stopping in to remind you that you are a child of God and that you are loved 🕊️💖God bless you all

@Convolutedtubules 5 жыл бұрын

You helped create something great. Next you should invent karaoke for the mute.

@nicknick5811 5 жыл бұрын

Keske alt yazlı olsa da bizde anlasak

@AlexTorres-hh3or 5 жыл бұрын

Too bad he can't see where the legos are on the floor so he can avoid stepping on them

@ErikB605 5 жыл бұрын

A headset janking your head around sounds really uncomfortable.

@namechange94 5 жыл бұрын

see what i mean

@namechange94 5 жыл бұрын

ofc the comment section is full of trolls, see what i meme

@anshgupta8468 5 жыл бұрын

1st Lala lalaaaali lulaaaaluiyaaaa...india

@a.9524 5 жыл бұрын

4th

@evilbeast863 3 жыл бұрын

Whats the point of Building a lego set if you cant see it

@SpaceAnimalGaming 3 жыл бұрын

You can touch it; he literally says exactly this, using the Statue of Liberty as an example.

@treeboi97 5 жыл бұрын

2nd

@danparish1344 5 жыл бұрын

It’s weird that he doesn’t use his arms to express what he’s saying.

@Rachel-sw2pw 5 жыл бұрын

If he’s been blind most or all of his life, then using his arms to express himself may not have ever occurred to him (as he wouldn’t have grown up seeing others do it) And even if he knows other people do that, he still wouldn’t have a reference of what typical gesturing looks like.