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Danny Hillis talks about Applied Minds, his lab for making experimental stuff. There are about 40 different projects going on at any time, with a focus on hardware but including sw. He shows photos of the workshops and movies of little walking devices that get oohs and ahhs. [Humans are such softies.]

He shows a techno-pimped out car with every possible gadget in it. Lots of blinking lights and screens.

And to make sure we don't think it's all toys and gadgets, the talks about a cancer research project that puts a drop of blood through a mass spectrometer that gives a signature for every protein. "If you could find the chemical signature of what made a chemical treatment worked..."