# Can we "print" smart objects?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
- Speaker: Dan Walker
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_walker_can_we_print_smart_objects)
- 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: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

According to technologist Dan Walker, the future is going to be printed. Well, not exactly, but many things that we today patch together or assemble, will actually come to us as complex printed objects. By loading the standard printers we use today with special inks that conduct electricity, we can print electronic circuits onto the objects, making it even easier to connect them to the Internet of Things.

## Lectures

1. [Can we "print" smart objects?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dan_walker_can_we_print_smart_objects/85c62e402131), 8 min (TED's player)