I like the name “Eyeborg”. Rob Spence is a documentary film maker who lost his eye due to a childhood accident. He has worked with scientists and engineers to make a new eye that sends a wireless signal that can then be recorded. There are many other scientists, doctors and futurists working on robotic prosthetics [...]
I have published multiple videos and discussions spawned by the TED conference that happens every year in Long Beach, CA I find the talks inspiring and the fact that the videos are available to the general public and spawn additional ideas and responses is what makes TED so influential. An article from FastCompany Online makes [...]
Several years ago, I found TED and started watching amazing 18 minute videos of people changing the world. One of the most amazing videos I saw (and posted) was of Pattie Maes of MIT’s Media Labs showing what her graduate student, Pranav Mistry, had created; a 6th Sense hardware that was cobbled together from existing [...]
Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of “Ridiculous Fellows” from Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” orchestral suite. This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself. About Qi Zhang Qi Zhang is a Master’s candidate at University of Southern California’s Thornton [...]
Ted continues to be cutting edge and exciting. The idea of having pertinent, semantically appropriate information literally at your fingertips in the moments you need it to make a decision about your next action is what we really want. This technology could make it happen. Its called Sixth Sense and is being developed by Fluid [...]
