And we actually do this with a gel so that you can lift the gel material.

I made a stacking board.

It doesn't require any scalp preparation, no conductive gel or paste.

Now the Americans in the audience will know all about cup stacking.

And the how was harmony, stacking up the pitches to form chords.

The gel that you're holding would be lining the bottom of the board.

This is where you can manipulate the stacking order of objects on the slide.

That's like taking two Empire State Buildings and stacking them on top of one another.

And I want to introduce a word that I think is very useful, which is stacking.

And there is a variety of other things the shape of the cushions, the gel we put.

So what I'm going to show you is Emily Fox winning the world record for cup stacking.

So all of these ills are stacking up against these animals and keeping their numbers very low.

If you try to put more than one kid in, you're stacking them on top of each other.

And it was a man, a Chinese man, and he was stacking these things, not with glue, not with anything.

So I decided to give him a little support, and brought some order into neatly stacking the blocks on top of each other.

A technician will put the electrodes onto the scalp using a conductive gel or paste and usually after a procedure of preparing the scalp by light abrasion.

We stole the idea from bicycle seats, and put gel in the cushions and in the armrests to absorb point load distributes the loading so you don't get hard spots.

And I'm going to use stacking for a kind of simplicity that has the characteristic that it is so simple and so reliable that I can build things with it.

If you line the sides of the cabinets using the gel material if a cabinet slams shut it wouldn't make a loud noise, and in addition the magnets would draw the cabinets closed.

Just a few weeks after treatment in this case, taking that material, turning it into a gel, and packing that area, and then repeating the treatment a few times and the horse heals up.

It initially started off with me stacking these things, bunches of them, and then playing with the sense of space, of filling in the space. And then it started changing, and become folding on themselves.

As you're seeing this gel magnet for the first time, if you assume that all magnets had to be hard, then seeing this surprised you and it changed your understanding of the way magnets could work.

What I mean is the world holds me so tightly the good and the bad my own follies and weakness that even this counterfeit Venus with her sham heat, and her bosom probably plumped with gel, so moves me my breath catches.

But I read this fact the other day, that one trillion seconds equals 32 thousand years, so if you think about that, the context, the casualness with which we talk about trillion dollar bailout here, and trillion there, we are stacking ourselves up for long term leverage.

And we were showing him the same gel magnet that you're holding in your hand and you know, we shared the same ideas. And you could see it in his face Roman starts to get really excited and he whips out this manila folder he opens it up and Keith and I look in, and he starts showing us concepts that he's been working on.

And as we thought about it more, we realized that it let you fill in all the details about the experience, just as if you saw it on TV. So, for TED we decided to take our favorite idea for the gel magnet and work with Roman and his team at the Directors Bureau to create a commercial for a product from the future.

But I knew, you'd go into the lab and you'd try to make it work yourself. And then you're the authority, and you can say, I know it works, because right there in that tube is where it happened, and here, on this gel, there's a little band there that I know that's DNA, and that's the DNA I wanted to amplify, so there! So it does work.