Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
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I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
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Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
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Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
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It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem.
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
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There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
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A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.
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Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.
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It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
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There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.