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Tag Archives: ted
Scientist Records 230,000 Hours of Son’s Childhood: What It Means and What’s Next
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates When Deb Roy’s son invites his girlfriend over for dinner with his [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged Bluefin Labs, Child Linguistics, Deb Roy, lifelogging, MIT, MIT Media Lab, social media, ted
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Cynthia Breazeal at TED: We’re Making Robots Personal (video)
“People just behave like people, even when interacting with a robot.” — Cynthia Breazeal 2010 Forget the automated factories, the [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Video Central
Tagged cynthia breazeal, human machine interaction, kismet, leonardo, MIT Media Lab, Personal Robotics Group, ryan wistort, social robot, ted, trust in robots
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Take a Ride Inside Google’s Robot Car – Great New Video
Dammit, I really need to attend TED. The annual Technology Entertainment Design conference always has tons of great presenters, but [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged autonomous car, autonomous driving, autonomous vehicle, Google robot car, robot car, Sebastian Thrun, ted, TED 2011
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Chris Anderson, Head of TED, Forsees Crowd Accelerated Innovation (video)
Five hundred years ago, the printing press marked a rise in the power of the written word over human speech. [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged Chris Anderson, Crowd accelerated innovation, Kibera, ted, TED 2010
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Tan Le Demos Headset That Reads Brainwaves (video)
Tan Le isn’t just interested in reading your mind, she wants to have fun while doing it. Le is one [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged bci, brain activity, brain-computer interface, EEG, emotiv, epoc, human computer interface, Tan Le, ted
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The Solution To Global Population Growth is Saving Children (video)
Think the global human population is growing too quickly? Then work to decrease infant mortality among the world’s poor. That’s [...]
New Video of USC’s 3D Floating Head Teleconferencing System at TEDxUSC
USC’s amazing floating head 3D teleconferencing technology is back and as captivating as ever. Developed by the university’s Institute for [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged 3D display, 3d teleconferencing, institute for creative technologies, ted, TEDxUSC, USC
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Implant Gives Early Warning of Heart Attack – From TED Talk To Saving Lives
The heart monitor of the future is already here and saving lives. AngelMed‘s Guardian System is an implant that continually [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged acute myocardial infarction, ALERTS, AngelMed, clinical trial, guardian system, heart attack, Robert E Fischell, ted
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TEDMED 2009 David Blaine Holds His Breath for 17 minutes (Video)
I’m a big TEDMED fan, so it seems like magic that the videos of the latest conference are starting to [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged breath, David Blaine, illusion, Magic, ted, TEDMED, TEDMED 2009, underwater, world record
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Mprize: Your Children Could Be Immortal
If living forever isn’t enough motivation to get scientists to study longevity, maybe $3.8 million will work instead. That’s the [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged aging, Aubrey De Grey, david sinclair, immortality, longevity, Methuselah Foundation, Mprize, Steven Spindler, ted, xprize
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StickyBot Mimics Geckos To Climb Walls
When naming robots, I want to encourage all of you researchers to go for the obvious choice, that way we [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged Berkeley, biomutualism, rise, Robert Full, Stanford, StickyBot, ted
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TEDMED 2009 is Coming – The Best of the Best Will Speak on Medicine
It’s hard to find a group of speakers that are as famous, as inspiring, or as successful as those found [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged Conference, design, entertainment, medicine, october, San Diego, Technology, ted, TEDMED, TEDMED 2009
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Catherine Mohr Promises More Robotic Surgery
No matter how much it begs, never give your robot a knife – it will want to play surgeon. Engineer, [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged Catherine Mohr, da vinci, operation, surgery, ted, TED 2009
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Enter the AlloSphere: a 360° Audiovisual Research Dome
“Data analysis.” Sounds exciting, right? Most of us would sooner put out an eye than crunch some numbers. But what [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged 3D, allosphere, data visualization, ted, virtual reality
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Video: Juan Enriquez Explains The Biology Revolution At TED 2009
Below we have posted a video of Juan Enriquez at the 2009 TED conference explaining the convergence of engineering in [...]
Official Powerpoint from Kurzweil/Diamandis TED Presentation
Today Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis officially unveiled Singularity University to the world during a presentation at the TED conference [...]