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Chris Hughes: Augmented reality made easy Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 23, 2009 In this short TEDDIY talk at TED@PalmSprings, iPhone hacker Chris Hughes demos an open source software project based on FLARToolkit and Papervisio...

Catherine Mohr: Surgery’s past, present and robotic future Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 18, 2009 Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tool...

Kevin Surace invents eco-friendly drywall Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 09, 2009 Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials — such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint gen...

Yves Behar’s supercharged motorcycle design Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 22, 2009 Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods th...

Nandan Nilekani’s ideas for India's future Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 14, 2009 Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can cont...

What went wrong (and what’s next) at the Large Hadron Collider Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 01, 2009 In this short talk from TED U 2009, Brian Cox shares what’s new with the CERN supercollider. He covers the repairs now underway and what the futur...

How texting and GoogleMaps helped Kenyans survive crisis Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 22, 2009 At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cel...

Rethinking the way we sit down Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 21, 2009 Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details hi...

How biotech will drive our evolution Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 14, 2009 In this prophetic 2003 talk — just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, ...

Busted! The sneaky moves of antisocial smartphone users Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 10, 2009 In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world — where the ...

Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back it up Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 07, 2009 Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intif...

Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 25, 2009 In this engaging talk from the EG’08 conference, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue rounds up some handy cell phone tools and services that...

Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 23, 2009 In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprisi...

The next Web of open, linked data Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 13, 2009 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbe...

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 10, 2009 This demo — from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a pr...

How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 27, 2009 In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many ...

Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!) Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 20, 2009 The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, ...

How great design makes ideas new Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 11, 2009 From the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, h...

Great ideas for finding new energy Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 02, 2009 Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits...

Tools for building a better world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 21, 2009 We all want to make the world better — but how? Jamais Cascio looks at some specific tools and techniques that can make a difference....

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