# Play with smart materials

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Catarina Mota
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/catarina_mota_play_with_smart_materials)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Ink that conducts electricity; a window that turns from clear to opaque at the flip of a switch; a jelly that makes music. All this stuff exists, and Catarina Mota says: It's time to play with it. Mota leads us on a tour of surprising and cool new materials, and suggests that the way we'll figure out what they're good for is to experiment, tinker and have fun.

## Lectures

1. [Play with smart materials](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/catarina_mota_play_with_smart_materials/8279033b935c), 10 min (TED's player)