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her first night in the lab because she was going to make the sensor.

There was a girl who insisted we stay late at night Kids I love the Fab Lab.

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These Fab Labs are the cost and complexity of a PDP.

I was showing my kids in a Fab Lab how to use it.

And a marvelous fellow from the Media Lab who just got appointed head of RISD, is John Maeda.

So this is another project that I worked on with the Sensible Cities Lab at MIT.

The message coming from the Fab Labs is that the other five billion people on the planet aren't just technical sinks they're sources.

The person who runs it nicely describes it as machines that make machines need businesses that make businesses it's a cross between micro finance and VC to do fan out, and then the research partnerships back at MIT for what's making it possible.

We didn't think this up, that we would get pulled to these places we'd open it. The first step was just empowerment.

And if you imagine what, say, just as an example, what Google Labs has in terms of experiments with Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, blah, blah, blah all these things are going to become Web based.

So, with the MIT Media Lab, for quite a while now, we've been engaged in a field called active music.

It goes on from there to serious hands on technical education informally, out of schools. In Ghana we had set up one of these labs.

So, in place after place we saw this same progression that we'd open one of these Fab Labs, where we didn't this is too crazy to think of.

This isn't a university it's not a company. It's essentially a village for invention it's a village for the outliers in society, and those have been growing up around these Fab Labs all around the world.

And when he then walks back to the Media Lab, he can just go up to any wall and project all the pictures that he's taken, sort through them and organize them, and re size them, etc., again using all natural gestures.

Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms, from opera to video games. He and composer Dan Ellsey shed light on what's next.

MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab a low cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results.