Parents Caroline Giertz | Nominations Shorty Award for STEM | |
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Full Name Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz Born 1 November 1990 (age 26) ( 1990-11-01 ) Residence San Francisco, California, United States Similar Caroline Giertz, Adam Savage, Michelle Jenneke, Jamie Hyneman Profiles | ||
Simone giertz is queen of crappy robots
Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz (/ˈjætʃ/; YACH; [ˈjæʈʂ]; born 1 November 1990) is a Swedish inventor, maker, robotics enthusiast, and professional YouTuber. She has also previously worked in MMA sports journalism, and as an editor for Sweden's official website Sweden.se.
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Biography
Giertz has named the Disney cartoon character Gyro Gearloose as one of her earliest inspirations. She studied engineering physics in college but dropped out after a year, going on to study at Hyper Island in Stockholm, and took an interest in programming and robotics. Giertz's interest in electronics began in 2013; she made a toothbrush helmet for a children's show pilot episode on electronics, which was uploaded to YouTube after not being picked up, starting her YouTube career.
Giertz brands herself as "the queen of shitty robots" and runs a YouTube channel where she employs deadpan humor to demonstrate mechanical robots of her own creation to automate everyday tasks; despite working from a purely mechanical standpoint, they often fall short of practical usefulness, for comic effect. Giertz's creations have included an alarm clock that slaps the user, a lipstick applier, and one that shampoos the user's hair. When building her robots, Giertz does not aim to make something useful, instead coming up with excessive solutions to potentially automatable situations.
In 2016, Giertz joined Tested.com, collaborating with Adam Savage on her first project, the Popcorn Feeding Helmet.
Family and personal life
As of July 2016, Giertz lives in San Francisco.
The Giertz family surname is of Low German origin. She is the daughter of Caroline Giertz, novelist and TV host, who Giertz describes as a "ghostbuster" due to her mother's work on paranormal reality TV show Det Okända. Giertz is a descendant of Ericsson founder Lars Magnus Ericsson. Lutheran theologian and bishop Bo Giertz was her great-great-uncle.
In one of Giertz's YouTube video, she mentioned that at the age of 16, she went to China for a year as an exchange student. She stayed in Hefei city and that's where she learned her basic Mandarin. During her stay in China she also made a cameo in a Chinese sitcom called Huan Xi Long Xia Dang (Chinese: 欢喜龙虾档, the Happy Lobster Restaurant), where she played Catherine, an American girl who married a Chinese. In the same video it also appears she gave herself a Chinese name Xin Meng (心萌), which pronounces very similar to "Simone".