The Creativity Lab by Steelcase was a hub of brainstorming, collaboration, intense discussion and even a little hardware hacking throughout TEDActive. Here’s an inside look at what the space had to offer. At the PUR Water station. TEDx event buttons in high production — collect ’em all! An interview in progress at AT&T’s HD Video […]
In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 8:14) Watch Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo of augmented mapping on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other […]
Throughout TEDActive, TEDsters had a chance to participate in something truly magical: the making of a music video (UPDATE: watch the video!). To help out, the musicians and producers with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus stopped in Palm Springs for all four days of the conference. The Bus, a nonprofit mobile recording studio, travels […]
David Byrne, Thomas Dolby and Ethel rock out playing (Nothing But) Flowers. Dave Weaver: “How do you answer, ‘What’s a TED?’” Sarah Silverman: A new perspective on the number 3000. David Rockwell on the Imagination Playground: “No project has ever made me happier.” Yoni Benatar pilots mini drones from his iphone with augmented reality. Eve […]
“The Sleepy Giant,” Charles E. Carryl (1841-1920) My age is three hundred and seventy-two, And I think, with the deepest regret, How I used to pick up and voraciously chew The dear little boys whom I met. I’ve eaten them raw, in their holiday suits; I’ve eaten them curried with rice; I’ve eaten them baked, […]
Temple Grandin: If you have these smart geeky kids with a touch of autism, you need to get them turned on to cool things. Chris Anderson (of Wired): We think the tablet is the future of magazines. Flexibility in design, plus interactivity. (He’s holding the March 2010 issue of Wired.) Mitchell Joachim, a TED Fellow: […]
John Underkoffler: “Technology is capable of expressing generosity. And we need to demand that.” Sergey Brin: Our focus has really been what’s best for the Chinese people. George Church: “We’re not making life from scratch; we’re using all the tricks an engineer can use to leverage natural processes.” Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg of KIPP: […]
At TEDActive, The Innovation Lounge by Bing is a flickering future-gallery from a time when desks and desktop computers have been forgotten, and machines are considered art collaborators rather than just tools. We talked with the space’s curators and each of the artists. Tell me about how you selected the exhibits for the Bing Innovation […]
Ross Evans met the TED Blog to talk about the Worldbike and Xtracycle bicycles that TEDActive attendees have enjoyed on their early-morning rides through the streets of Palm Springs. “The Worldbike is the genesis of this. When I was a sophomore in college I took some time out to go to Nicaragua to help some […]
Andrew Bird says what the world needs now is more reckless curiosity. Stephen Wolfram: Could it be that somewhere out there in the computational universe that we could find our physical universe? Gary Flake demos Pivot — a way to navigate the web as if it’s actually a web. Seth Berkley: “As variable as flu […]
TEDActive Blogger’s Alley in the Bing Innovation Lounge. In the photo: TED’s Kristin Windbigler, Shanna Carpenter and Matthew Trost, and TED speaker Jim Fallon. (Photo: TED / Michael Brands)
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., 2010 TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 21:53) Watch Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate […]
We visited the Intelligentsia Slow Coffee Bar in Bing’s Innovation Lounge to learn what slow coffee is, and hear about the simple approach that brews a perfect cup. “‘Slow coffee’ is an attempt to tackle the notion of quantity and convenience as what defines good coffee. We think the quality of the cup is the […]
OMG, the LXD. Many more photos here >> Jane McGonigal: “An entire generation of young people are virtuoso gamers. We need to figure out exactly what skills they’re honing.” David Byrne: “Like the birds, our joy is always there. We just change it to fit the context.” Jake Shimabukuro jamming with Ethel. Blaise Aguera y […]
Starting the session, former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. “It’s a wake-up call we need.” Michael Sandel: “We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument.” Christopher “m00t” Poole: “I asked 4chan what I should say at TED. And I got 12,000 responses in about 24 […]
(Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Michael Specter: “You’re entitled to your own opinion — but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Sam Harris: “Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering? … No.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan […]