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Maybe a new street sign is what the world needs now

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What’s the best way to keep automobile traffic moving calmly and rationally through an intersection? It’s not a stoplight, it’s not a stop sign, and it’s not a yield sign (who knows what to do at a yield?). In Session 6, Gary Lauder suggests we “Take Turns.” Roundabouts are the best way to build intersections, […]

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Demo: Where to get Pivot

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In Session 7, Breakthrough, Gary Flake demo’ed Pivot, amazing new data visualization tech from Microsoft Live Labs. Learn more here and, if you have a PC, download Pivot and play. Learn more about Pivot here at PressPass (you may need to install Silverlight) and on YouTube.

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Photoblog: The Global Village social space

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Above, TED Senior Fellow Juliana Machado Ferreira watches TED in simulcast at the Global Village, a social space dedicated to the TED Fellows program. Supported by the Kauffman Foundation, the Global Village sports comfy cushion seating (below) and a touchscreen (bottom) for pinpointing the home countries of the TED Fellows and Senior Fellows at Long […]

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Photoblog: Block Party with Ozomatli

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TED’s photo editor Mike Femia digs this picture above: “It looks like an impressionist painting, but in neon lights.” From the Wednesday-night Block Party on Pine Street in Long Beach, with the amazing Ozomatli (below). More pics from the Block Party >> Photos: TED / James Duncan Davidson

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Photoblog: The Imaginarium

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In the Imaginarium, GE created an environment for listening to TEDTalks and then sharing reactions and inspirations, using a glowing, multipart multimedia sculpture that recorded thoughts and ideas from TEDsters. (You can see some of the feedback on Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo in the postroll at the end of his TEDTalk.) Below, a detail […]

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Photoblog: The Hub social space

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Above, at the Hub, attendees played with Nokia’s fast and tiny Booklet 3G netbook. Below, a scene from Nokia’s data visualizations of the Twittersphere, with live updates, stats and fun outliers. It’s <a href="addictive. Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth

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Photoblog: The Playroom

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On the top floor of the theater, the SyFy Network supported a groovy social space called the Playroom — featuring a director’s-eye view of each camera on our 8-camera shoot. On Friday, as part of the hosted conversation series, TED2010 speaker Jane McGonigal came to the Playroom to talk about her new game, Evoke.

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Desert Diaries: The Social Media Workshop

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(TEDActive 2010. February 9-13, 2010, Palm Springs, CA. Credit: TED / Michael Brands) Maybe it was news of the blizzard onslaught back on the East Coast that made our 20 Social Media Workshop attendees so nonchalant about the chilly air in the high desert this morning. But the weather today was nothing to shrug off, […]

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Step into Liquid Galaxy at the Dome

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Back in summer 2008, a group of Google engineers started horsing around with multiscreen displays and Google Earth, using their 20 Percent time. Fast forward a year and a half, and the hack has turned into this sensurround array of seven screens, offering an immersive experience that’s like stepping inside Google Earth. From the Google […]

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Chevy Volt test-drive

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Yesterday we test-drove the high-tech, yet-to-be released Chevy Volt electric car. Smooth handling and great engine pickup made for a fun driving experience. Cool features we liked: + Due to the pin-drop silent engine, the Volt sounds a soft beeping alert when it detects pedestrians in proximity. + After the battery charge is depleted, Volt’s […]