This TED Talk features physicist and inventor, Manu Perkesh, recorded live at TED 2017.

So I love making tools and sharing them with people.

I remember as a child, my first tool I built was actually a microscope that I built by stealing lenses from my brother's eyeglasses.

He wasn't that thrilled. But you know, maybe because of that moment, 30 years later, I'm still

making microscopes. And the reason I built these tools is for moments like this.

Pass this one around to everybody. I have black things in the here in the long.

This is a schooling Bay Area.

The living world far supersedes our imagination of how things actually work.

Oh my God.

You see the perfect name.

Right. Oh my God. I hadn't realized this would be such a universal phrase. Over the last two years,

in my lab, we built 50,000 fold scoped and shipped them to 130 countries in the world

at no cost to the kids we sent them to. This year alone, with the support of our community,

we are planning to ship a million microscopes to kids around the world.

What does that do?

It creates an inspiring community of people around the world

learning and teaching each other,

from Kenya to Kampala to Kathmandu to Kansas. And one of the

phenomenal things that I love about this is the sense of community. There is a kid in Nicaragua

teaching others how to identify mosquito species that carry dengue by looking at the larvae

under a microscope. There's a pharmacologist who came up with a new way

to detect fake drugs anywhere.

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