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We look at the back, those are the egg sacks. Dude!!!! I was not kidding. Oh my god. So this might be... I'm holding in my hand a microscope that is waterproof, stomp proof. I put it together in 2 minutes and it costs 50 cents to make. And in this hand I have a blood centrifuge that spins 10 times faster than a 10,000 dollar centrifuge and it costs 18 cents. Both of these were invented here at Stanford in the lab of a brilliant physicist, biologist, inventor named Manu Prakash, with the goal to help improve the life of the world's poorest, through low cost, effective, scalable inventions. Incredibly it's believed that of the estimated 100 billion people to have lived on this planet, More than half have died of malaria. The symptoms are similar to the flu, and so the goal standard for diagnoses is to take a drop of blood, spin it in a centrifuge and then look at under a microscope. Historically, this has been really hard to do in the places that need it the most, because the equipment can cost tens of thousands of dollars and it needs electricity These two inventions can diagnose malaria, cost less than a dollar and require no electricity. Manu, good to finally meet you. Absolutely You're like a superhero Oh I don't know about that. From an engineering perspective what you do is amazing. Now before I continue with Manu, let me just support that statement by showing how this 50 cent paper microscope actually works. So it comes like this and you pop out the pieces of paper, and follow the simple instructions like folding origami. The lens is actually a tiny sphere of glass embedded in this plastic. Then you put your slide in here, and then you look through that tiny glass sphere and it's magnified 140x. You can even put your phone up to it and film and then capture a video like this. Your lab at Stanford, what do you do? What's your missions? Like the high level. I grew up in India and one of the things I've always enjoyed is getting exposed to scientific tools. When I started the lab it was very clear that we have this hunger for scientific tools that's missing. And so we spent almost 50% of our time building and designing scientific tools, under the umbrella of "frugal science" It can't cost a ton of money because every zero that you add to a scientific movement probably hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of people cut off. I wanted to test drive this paper microscope so we got a scoop of seemingly clear water from this pond, and there was one tiny white spec that didn't settle to the bottom of our bag. So Manu suggested that we take a closer look. They can sense suction. Ah, okay. And they run away. It's kind of like a fly when you'r trying to swat it,...