Topic: You guys might find this interesting...

[ScaryTooth]

TED Talks

This is my favorite site at the moment. I've been watching a lot of these videos lately and they're really really interesting. Thought you guys might find it as interesting as I have.

[idolminds]

Cool site.

[I_Chameleon]

I'm surprised this thread didn't pick up... the TED conferences are simply amazing. A few that I found really cool were Bono's call for action on Africa, Jeff Bolinsky's functional cell animation project, and Jeff Hawkins on a framework for intelligence. Juan Enriquez, Steven Pinker, V.S. Ramachandran, and on and on... fascinating stuff.

[Quemaqua]

It sounds... boring.  Maybe I just don't have the attention span I once did (or maybe just the time).

[I_Chameleon]

There's definitely something for everyone, and it's all pretty cutting-edge. Many of the speakers are very charismatic or talented, instead of boringly intellectual. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.

I just found this clip:

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/245

[scottws]

TED... reminds me of an airline I took to Mexico.

Anyway, didn't that guy that use the Wii-mote for all kinds of cool shit do a presentation at this TED expo thing?  I thought we had a thread about that around here someplace...

[Cobra951]

There's definitely something for everyone, and it's all pretty cutting-edge. Many of the speakers are very charismatic or talented, instead of boringly intellectual. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.

I just found this clip:

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/245

You weren't around at the time, so you missed the earlier thread on this.  It makes me mad that Nintendo forced the Boom Blox devs to pull the head-tracking Easter egg, apparently because of some policy related to how much movement is allowable in games for the Wii.  Nintendo is so conservative that they'll never be the real innovators with their own technology.  It will have to be done by the copycats (and rumor has it that the first will be Microsoft).  How sad.

[I_Chameleon]

That's exactly the link I suppose I just re-posted. My bad. :-(
However, the topics have such range and depth, that any small sampling that I could point you to would make it seem trivial. There are talks about global politico-economic policy, philanthropy and activism, futurism and transhumanism, genetics and genomics, psychology and physics, and on and on.

I'll stop now. Just browse around.