Posts Tagged ‘Conceptual’

David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think

MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables - cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
link to this TED talk / Devid Merrill’s Siftables project / Devid Merrill at MIT Media [...]

Golan Levin: The truly soft side of software

Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he wrote to perform his original compositions.

Zero7 - Futures

Psychedelic and vibrant slide show of morphed photography, with great music from group Zero7
(feat Jose Gonzalez)

Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote - TED.COM

Johnny Lee talks about building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.

Using biology to make better animation - TED.COM

Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people — by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. See his work now in GTA4.
Filmed Mar 2003; Posted on TED - Jul 2008

The Web’s secret stories - TED.COM

Jonathan Harris Artist and computer scientist  talks about emotional
world of the Web by making  online art that captures the world’s expression.

Mindnever Inspiration - TED.COM

Arthur Ganson sculptor and engineer talks about his work, kinetic art
that explores deep philosophical ideas. Some great conceptual
thinking and thoughts implanted in machines. Truly Amazing.

George Dyson takes us back at birth of modern computer, also he
tries to redefine concept of life by talking about evolution of
Barricelli universe. Can you imagine what will computer look like
in [...]