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TED Talks Video- TED: Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass? - Sergey Brin (2013) May 17, 2013It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up. […]
- TED: Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard! - Jay Silver (2013) May 16, 2013Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects. […]
- TED: Liu Bolin: The invisible man - Liu Bolin (2013) May 15, 2013Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called “The Invisible Man” because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center — and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background. […]
- TED: Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness - Maria Bezaitis (2013) May 14, 2013In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness -- people and ideas that don't fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already like and where we’ve already been. A call for technology to deliver us to what and who we need, even if it’s unfamiliar. (F […]
- TED: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20 - Meg Jay (2013) May 13, 2013Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade. In this provocative talk, Jay says that just because marriage, work and kids are happening later in life, doesn’t mean you can’t start planning now. She gives 3 pieces of advice for how twentysomethings can re-claim adulthoo […]
- TED: Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass? - Sergey Brin (2013) May 17, 2013
