A brief history of the reasons for developing an artificial heart with a description of the Realheart total artificial heart and its similarity to the natural heart. The talk also contains the personal history and experience of the inventor. Dr. Azad Najar is a Senior physician in urology, inventor and researcher. He also has extensive experience in innovation strategies, regulation, patent strategies, and development of industrial products and technology companies. Dr. Azad Najjar has technical and innovative skills in addition to his medical knowledge in surgery. The combination of these three skills has been essential to the development of the artificial heart and other innovations. He is the founder of the Swedish companies Scandinavian Real Heart and Laprotech. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx