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  • [Yael]: Ok so maybe you need to put a delay between turning on the burst.

  • Have you guys looked at the data?

  • [Man]: How many of-

  • [Yael]: Its really fun to be able to touch something and

  • think of something and solve a problem that no one has ever

  • been able to solve before.

  • Do you have any way of plotting what the optimal

  • frequency is for each one of the positions?

  • MAN: I could track that.

  • My name is Yael Maguire and I am Chief Technology Officer at Thing Magic.

  • [ANNCR]: YAEL HAS BEEN BUILDING THINGS SINCE HE WAS A KID.

  • [Yael]: I remember when I was about 12 years old that I

  • really took an incredible interest in designing and

  • building radio controlled vehicles.

  • [Narrator]: And now, designing and building things is his job.

  • Like this little piece of technology,

  • that's starting to make a big difference.

  • [Yael]: This is a tag. This is an RFID Tag. RFID stands for

  • Radio Frequency IDentification. These are invisible waves that communicate

  • information from one point to another.

  • If you split this in half, and then add more -

  • [Narrator]: Yael and his team make the readers that take the information

  • stored on the tags and send it to a computer.

  • [Yael]: We can use this to identify objects uniquely and

  • have a computer understand what those objects are by just

  • sticking them on there.

  • The main problem that board was trying to solve was

  • people would have to travel a long distance to get to a

  • particular job site, and if they

  • got to that site and they realized that they had forgotten

  • you know their scroll saw or something like that,

  • they'd actually have to go to a local store and buy one.

  • And those things are really expensive.

  • [Narrator]: These tags will let a pickup truck know which

  • tools are in the back, and which ones aren't. But that's just the beginning.

  • [Yael]: Basically having access to information and more information

  • about objects allows us to be more efficient about how we

  • transport them, manipulate them, handle them.

  • [Narrator]: Produce travelling from the field to the store, for example,

  • can be affected by changes in temperarture...

  • RFID tags might just be the answer.

  • [Yael]: With special types of tags like this that can actually record temperature,

  • maybe it will mean that we can send this product out such that

  • when it actually reaches you it's fresher, and newer, and tastier.

  • [Narrator]: While electrical engineers are problem solvers,

  • using their high-tech understanding of circuitry and electronics,

  • it can take a long time for an idea to come to life.

  • [Yael]: Typically to make a product that can survive all

  • of the difficulties in the real world, it takes about a year.

  • [Narrator]: Which can mean long hours of meetings, designing, building, and lots of testing.

  • [Yael]: So I do a lot of walking.

  • I'm certainly not complaining because I have so

  • much fun having to pick and choose between these different things.

  • I just wish that there were more hours in the day.

  • [Narrator]: But Yael does have some time left over for other kinds of fun.

  • [Yael]: In fact it's actually I think a

  • good thing to be able to take a break from what I'm working on

  • and be able to focus on something, keep my mind focused

  • on one particular activity.

  • [Narrator]: Which helps him focus even better on the

  • projects that mean the most to him.

  • Like the one he's working on with a non-profit he

  • co-founded called, Design That Matters.

  • [Woman]: And this is really just to show that the concept is possible,

  • and then later on we'll develop things that we can

  • experiment with and test in the field and so forth.

  • [Narrator]: They design products especially for use in developing countries.

  • Like this prototype of a low-cost, infant incubator.

  • [Woman]: We want to make something that's easy to use

  • in developing countries and will save children's lives.

  • [Narrator: Using parts from cars and other common machinery,

  • Yael and his team developed a life saving product that's not

  • only low cost, but most any repair person or auto mechanic can keep it running.

  • [Yael]: I think part of why I'm excited about engineering and science always,

  • is to be able to look at a problem, spend some time with it,

  • work with colleagues, and then finally figure out how to

  • solve it. When you finally solve one of those problems, one of

  • those key problems, it's such an incredible feeling.

  • Life is too short to not pick exactly what you want to do.

  • If you can do it try to just work towards that and work as

  • hard as you can to realize that dream.

  • [Narrator]: And for engineer Yael Maguire, it doesn't get more exciting than this.

  • [Yael]: I chose a career that I knew I was going to be

  • passionate about and that I was going to love for the rest of my life.

  • Tag, you're it.

[Yael]: Ok so maybe you need to put a delay between turning on the burst.

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