We at Speakers Connect are excited to present award-winning inventor and artist Dhairya Dand.
Dhairya runs the futurist factory+lab ODD Industries in NYC and has been recognized in various lists like Forbes ’30 Under 30 2015 and 2016′, ELLE’s ‘Names to know in 2015’ and Vogue’s ‘Cool People’ to name a few. His inventions and research interests are about the human body,
Have a glimpse of his ideas in this short TEDxHamburg video of Dhairya:
Dhairya Dand is an award winning inventor and artist who runs ODD Industries a futurist factory+lab in NYC. His work investigates the human body as a medium for computation, new materials as a tool to embody interactions and design as a vehicle for mindfulness.
His past inventions include: bio reactive architecture, elastic computer screens, shape changing gadgets, shoes that tickle and guide, alcohol aware ice cubes, synthetic muscles, programmable hair, emotionally intelligent flowers, sensory apparatus for music learning and educational toys from eWaste, optically invisible fiber-optics among others.
Dhairya Dand’s work has been featured in several exhibitions at the V&A, Tokyo Design Week and MIT Museum. His accolades include:
- 2015 and 2016 Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list
- WIRED Innovation Fellow
- INK Fellow, FoST Fellow
- ELLE’s ‘Names to know in 2015’
- VOGUE’s ‘Cool People’
- Globe’s ‘Top 25 Innovators’
Dhairya is an alumnus of Harvard, a former research at MIT Media Lab, a sensory researcher in Tokyo, amateur geologist in Saudi, toy designer in Singapore, and a political activist in Bombay.
Dhairya‘s presentations are:
- ‘Future?’
- Art and Design, Fabrication and Technology
- Learning and Education in a wearable age
- Superhuman in making
- Hacking the body
Contact us to have Dhairya Dand speak at your next conference.