Why you should make useless things, Simone Giertz

In this joyful, heartfelt talk featuring demos of her wonderfully wacky creations, Simone Giertz shares her craft: making useless robots. Her inventions designed to chop vegetables, cut hair, apply lipstick and more rarely (if ever) succeed, and that s the point. The true beauty of making useless things is this acknowledgment that you don t always know what the best answer is, Giertz says. It turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works. Maybe a toothbrush helmet isn t the answer, but at least you re asking the