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
A much-requested slide from Dr. William Li’s TEDTalk in Session 2: Courtesy The Angiogenesis Foundation
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.
Stephen Morrissey is the 2008 World Barista Champion — watch him in action. He’s at TED in Long Beach with Intelligentsia Coffee, and some of us are a little bit starstruck. Photo: TED / Marla Aufmuth
(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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our job on the Media Team is to make TEDTalks look as wonderful as possible. At TED2010, we’re running an ambitious eight-camera shoot (with some cool new back-end processes to match — watch for more on that). Some of the people running these cameras are, from left: Alexandre Naufel, Richard Marcus, Todd Dos Reis, Rodney […]
JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure At her Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” Watch JK Rowling’s talk now >>
Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe At the Royal Institution in 1991, Richard Dawkins asks us to look at our universe with new eyes. Packed with big questions and illuminating visuals, this memorable journey through the history of life magnifies the splendor of evolution and our place in it. Watch Richard Dawkins’ talk now […]
Today, as we think about what we can do for Haiti, there’s no more pertinent message than in the words of this moving, soulful reading by Haitian author Edwidge Danticat — who reminds us of what Haiti has done for us. Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author […]
The TED Blog today spoke with Patrick Meier, who is part of the team at Ushahidi working to bring information about the Haiti earthquake crisis to Haitians (those inside and outside the country), the press, humanitarian relief workers, governments, and concerned people worldwide. (TED Senior Fellow Erik Hersman, TED speaker Ory Okolloh and TED Senior […]
Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Numerous members of the TED community have sought to find a way to help victims of the Haiti quake. We believe one of the organizations best placed to make an immediate difference is Partners in Health. They have operated medical facilities in Haiti for more than two decades and have numerous people […]
As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster — and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map […]
When Karen Armstrong was given one wish to change the world through the TED Prize, she wished for the creation of a Charter for Compassion. On November 12th, the charter was unveiled to the world, after months of collaborative effort and multi-denominational participation. At launch, over 60 plaques bearing the charter were hung in significant […]
We’re excited to post the next three talks in our new Best of the Web series! Today, we hear from a computer scientist who was battling pancreatic cancer, a neuroscientist and primatologist who learned about human nature by studying animals, and a man whose response to losing his life savings was unexpectedly hopeful. Randy Pausch: […]