just by themselves. they can be part of art and play. i love that. i have been working with little bits for most of my life. the target audience is primarily kids. we have been doing actually very well with adults as well designers, artists, business people, you know, retired engineers. two things, right? one of my favorite projects actually is a project that we saw at a workshop we did at south by southwest. i particularly wanted to make a collaborative game so they put the end game and they put two pressure sensors and fans. they had a foam ball. kind of floating on top of the fan. so it was kind of a combination of a collaborative game and also kind of very it was, you know, very romantic to see this ball that they drew a map of the world on it. let s build something.
that kind of became a big focus. this is what i made. if you press this, his tail turns around and around. his eyes light up. one thing i notice is that the colors are very gender neutral, right? they re not all pink. they re not all blue. it is the same that boys and girls or more towards girls and getting girls more into the sciences? what is it? there is a hidden agenda that i really believe that we have to work harder to get girls interested in science and technology but i don t believe in producing products for girls or for boys. i think that the intention here was that little bits were not going to be designed for boys. that was a deliberate decision and automatically they became gender neutral. it gives jacob a chance to see how electronics can also be fun and how they can be part of play and part of art and how electronics don t have to be
20 years a search for the very largest of astroids. so did a good job, you say, of tracking the very big astroids but the smaller ones that could cause a huge problem, what s happened with them. not much. they have never been able to fund a search for smaller astroids, ones that may only wipe out a continent or may only collapse the world economy for a century or so. something like that, we re not looking for. to me that seems crazy. so this is what we are trying to protect. it is a nice view. this is the view you had from when you go out. somewhat like that, a little higher up than i was. if you look at the green line, that s the earth. you see the other planets with the sun in the middle. this is the orbit of every single known astroid in our solar system. swarming around. yeah. it is a busy place. the outer part, this outer doughnut is called the astroid belt. the intersection, these are
poets, and the next makers, dreamers, teachers, and geniuses. they are the next list. welcome to the next list. i am dr. sanjay gupta. i would like to introduce you to two extraordinary innovators. iah invented the next generation of the lego called little bits, small colorful electronic components that snap together to create just about anything. the hope with little bits is get people to understand that technology at a very simple level and really start to take part in this revolution. the revolution is very different. 1-2, ignition, lift off. he is a former nasa astronaut and modern day astroid hunter. he is on an urgent mission to