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Saul Griffith on everyday inventions | Video on TED.com
Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab — from “smart rope” to a house-sized kite for towing large loads.
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Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
Sound design is een snel opkomend vak. En niet alleen de auto-industrie dingt met sound naar de gunst van de consument. Hoe gaat dat, geluid ontwerpen?
Link naar NRC artikel: Geen design zonder geluid
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Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life | Video on TED.com
Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” Craig Venter asks. His answer is “yes” — and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and promises that we’ll soon be able to build and boot up a synthetic chromosome.
Filed under: Knowledge, Psychology, Science | Tags: AI, brain, senses, sequences, time
Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing | Video on TED.com
Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.
Robert Lang folds way-new origami | Video on TED.com
Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics | Video on TED.com
Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.
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Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do | Video on TED.com
Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that motivate everyone’s actions — and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.
Filed under: Design, Science, Technology | Tags: animals, Design, engineering, evolution, nature, robots
Robert Full on engineering and evolution | Video on TED.com
Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what’s necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals’ tricks.
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Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space?The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.
