Posts Tagged ‘Video’
Jill Tarter: Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!)
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.
Link to this talk
David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Art, Computers, Conceptual, Design, Music, Science, TED talks, life, web
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 [...]
History of the Internet
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Computers, life, web
“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.
Voice-over by Steve Taylor http://voice-pool.com
You can get more information on this [...]
Andy Hobsbawm: Do the green thing
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Art, Conceptual, Design, Photography, TED talks, life
Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green — and some of the fringe benefits.
Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Architecture, Art, Conceptual, Design, Photography, TED talks, life
Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design.
In this talk graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy — and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design.
Golan Levin: The truly soft side of software
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Art, Computers, Conceptual, Music, TED talks
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
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Art, Conceptual, Music, Photography
Psychedelic and vibrant slide show of morphed photography, with great music from group Zero7
(feat Jose Gonzalez)
Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life, web
At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?
David Galleo - Underwater astonishments - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square’s worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.
Exploring the ocean’s hidden worlds - TED.COM
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Google Ocean, anyone?
