Greg Gage

Greg Gage is a neuroscientist and TED Fellow.

TED Speaker Bio
"As half of Backyard Brains, neuroscientist and engineer Greg Gage builds the SpikerBox -- a small rig that helps kids understand the electrical impulses that control the nervous system. He's passionate about helping students understand (viscerally) how our brains and our neurons work, because, as he said onstage at TED2012, we still know very little about how the brain works -- and we need to start inspiring kids early to want to know more... Before becoming a neuroscientist, Gage worked as an electrical engineer making touchscreens. As he told The Huffington Post: 'Scientific equipment in general is pretty expensive, but it's silly because before [getting my PhD in neuroscience] I was an electrical engineer, and you could see that you could make it yourself. So we started as a way to have fun, to show off to our colleagues, but we were also going into classrooms around that time and we thought, wouldn't it be cool if you could bring these gadgets with us so the stuff we were doing in advanced Ph.D. programs in neuroscience, you could also do in fifth grade?' His latest pieces of gear: the Roboroach, a cockroach fitted with an electric backpack that makes it turn on command, and BYB SmartScope, a smartphone-powered microscope." – Source: TED

Talks

 * Greg Gage: The cockroach beatbox (November 2011)
 * Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain (March 2015)

TED Links

 * TED Fellow Greg Gage turns a smartphone into a microscope by Karen Eng (February 24, 2013), TED Blog
 * Listening to Nature: The speakers in Session 5 at TEDGlobal 2013 by Karen Eng (June 12, 2013), TED Blog
 * Introducing the RoboRoach: Greg Gage at TEDGlobal 2013 by Karen Eng (June 12, 2013)
 * On blazars, quantum computers, and looking for life on Mars: A recap of TEDFellows Session 1 at TED2015 by Karen Eng (March 17, 2015), TED Blog

Additional Resources

 * BackyardBrains.com
 * Twitter