TED演讲:为什么要制造无用的东西(2)

（单词翻译）

So I do a lot of things like this. I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

我做过很多这样的事。我发现了一个问题，就会发明某个解决方法来应对它。

For example, brushing your teeth. Like, it's this thing we all have to do, it's kind of boring, and nobody really likes it.

比如刷牙这件事。这就是一件大家都得做，但是又有点无聊的事，而且没人真正喜欢刷牙。

If there were any seven-year-olds in the audience, they'd be like, "Yes!" So what about if you had a machine that could do it for you?

如果在座有7岁小朋友的话，他们肯定会大喊“就是这样！”那么要不要来一台自动帮你刷牙的机器呢？

I call it … I call it "The Toothbrush Helmet."

我给它取了名，叫做“牙刷头盔”。

So my toothbrush helmet is recommended by zero out of 10 dentists, and it definitely¹ did not revolutionize the world of dentistry,

10位牙医中有0位推荐了我的牙刷头盔，它也肯定不算颠覆牙医界的伟大发明，

but it did completely change my life. Because I finished making this toothbrush helmet three years ago,

但它确实改变了我的生活。因为3年前我做出了这个头盔，

and after I finished making it, I went into my living room and I put up a camera, and I filmed a seven-second clip² of it working.

完成制作之后，我在客厅架起了摄像机，录了一个7秒长的头盔操作视频。

And by now, this is a pretty standard modern-day fairy tale of girl posting on the internet, the internet takes the girl by storm,

现在，这成了一个标准的现代版童话：一个女孩在网上发帖，跟上了互联网浪潮，

thousands of men voyage into the comment sections to ask for her hand in marriage.

数以千计的男人们涌进评论区，邀请她进入婚姻殿堂。

She ignores all of them, starts a YouTube channel and keeps on building robots.

而她无视了他们所有人，创立了一个YouTube频道，继续搭建机器人。