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Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone

Himanshu Sharma — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000

At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone — a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that “displays” information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate.

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Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

Himanshu Sharma — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:34:51 +0000

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health — even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

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Chris Anderson: How YouTube is Driving Innovation

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:20:25 +0000

TED’s Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter.

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Jessa Gamble: Our Natural Sleep Cycle

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:18:42 +0000

In today’s world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only hope for the recommended eight hours of sleep. Examining the science behind our body’s internal clock, Jessa Gamble reveals the surprising and substantial program of rest we should be observing.

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Nicholas Christakis: How Social Networks Predict Epidemics

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:17:35 +0000

After mapping humans’ intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and colleague James Fowler began investigating how this information could better our lives. Now, he reveals his hot-off-the-press findings: These networks can be used to detect epidemics earlier than ever, from the spread of innovative ideas to risky behaviors to viruses (like H1N1).

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Johan Rockstrom: Let The Environment Guide Our Development

Himanshu Sharma — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:55:32 +0000

Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.

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Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:41:36 +0000

Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy — real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue.

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John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:36:12 +0000

Oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global interactive lab — sparking an explosion of rich data about the world below.

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Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:34:23 +0000

Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.

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Legos for grownups

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:51:52 +0000

Lego blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks’ colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open-source robotics and a little adult behavior.

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A headset that reads your brainwaves

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:44:23 +0000

Tan Le’s astonishing new computer interface reads its user’s brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications.

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Sony’s rollable OLED display

Himanshu Sharma — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:54:08 +0000

Check out this awesome 4.1-inch screen with a resolution of 432 by 240 pixels. It’s so flexible that this can literally roll around a pencil! Just imagine the applications – video screen that doubles as a wallpaper, or even the living room window curtain? What about “wearable” video display units!! Check out the video below.

Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot

Himanshu Sharma — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:46:15 +0000

At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success.

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Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story

Himanshu Sharma — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:43:21 +0000

Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes — and travels remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse of these fascinating flecks of plant courtship.

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Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention

Himanshu Sharma — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:39:33 +0000

Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.

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Don Tapscott on Gen-Y

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:25:56 +0000

The leading business strategy authority brings fresh focus to Gen-Y through the story of one over-achieving millenial who doesn’t read books (and it’s ok).

Greg Matthews on power of social media as a tool for innovation

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:23:10 +0000

With cool project work to back him up, Humana’s Director of Innovation demonstrates the power of social media as a tool for innovation.

Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain’s secrets

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:45:07 +0000

Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved — soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they’re made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain’s 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.

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Deloitte Innovation elevator campaign

Himanshu Sharma — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:13:04 +0000

Deloitte Netherlands launched a new business unit – Deloitte Innovation, which focuses on developing new business ideas. As part of the campaign, several Deloitte offices had their elevators transformed into showers. Because after all, the best ideas are born in the shower.

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BMW GINA Light Visionary Model

Himanshu Sharma — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:36:05 +0000

Am not a great fan of “concept cars”, but BMW Gina deserves special attention for completely rethinking out of the box. Check out the cool premiere video below, where Chris Bangle, Director of Design, BMW Group, describes the thought process that went behind this cool pair of wheels. No wonder GM and Ford are struggling just to survive.

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