>> TOM: Okay. Hello, I'm Tom!
>> JULIEN: I'm Julien.
>> DAN: And I'm Dan.
>> TOM: And this is CharityShock.
And it is, essentially, the virtual version
of a village fete dunking booth.
The easiest way to demonstrate this
is to show you, so, Dan--
>> DAN: Sure.
>> TOM: Do you want to talk us through the hardware?
>> DAN: Sure. I'm just going to apply these internet electrodes
to my glamorous assistant here.
>> JULIEN: So, internet electrodes, why?
Because they're connected to a capacitor
which is connected to a transistor
which is connected to an Arduino board
which is connected to the...
>> CROWD: Internet!
>> JULIEN: Yeah! They're good.
>> TOM: All right. These guys have done
a wonderful job on the hardware.
Can you hit the button?
If you have a gift certificate
that we have given you, now,
go to charityshock.com,
type in your donation ID,
we are live. Are we live, Dan?
We are live -- JESUS!
[laughter]
Er, so, hit the button! Hit the -- er,
Nng! [laughter]
It is based on the JustGiv-ING! APIs,
it is fully functional,
and if you donate a pound, you will be able
to give me a shock -- [yelps]
[laughter]
Currently we are using gift cert-IF!-icates
-- ow! That one really hurt --
We're using gift certificates just because the,
the JustGiving process goes -- TAKES! -- a little while
erm, but, if you, er, if you come to us later
we'll be able to tell you... tell you that.
Possible futures, er, you can hook this up
to more people, you could hook this -- UP! --
to more shock locations, so you can choose
where to shock people, you can have an
adjustable voltage based on how much you've paid
You could have celebrities, you could have marathon sessions
You could have a 24-hour video gaming session where
you're hooked up to it.
But here's the -- THING!
[laughter]
It's, um, it's a simple -- PACKAGE --
you can just take anywhere.
Erm, the web site can be charityshock.com/yourname
It's extensible to become a platform
You could use silly string, you could use water guns
You could use dart guns, here's the thing,
here's the important thing.
You can use anything that can be hooked up
-- TO! -- [laughter]
-- an Arduino which - MEANS! - that if you want to
feed bunnies for charity, you can do it with this.
If you want to do interactive art, it's fine.
If you want to launch a fireworks display
and have people donate to set the fireworks off
this platform will make it possible.
Electric shocks might be a cheap gimmick
to get some laughs, but this -- THING! -- actually works.
That's the web site. I'm Tom.
>> JULIEN: I'm Julien.
>> DAN: I'm Dan W.
[cheering and applause]
>> TOM: Ow! Who was that one?
>> DAN: No Tom Scotts were harmed in the making of this.