Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

Automated genetic tinkering is just the start - this machine could be used to rewrite the language of life and create new species of humans

MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

Lenses that monitor eye health are on the way, and in-eye 3D image displays are being developed too - welcome to the world of augmented vision

Jon Kabat-Zinn leads a session on Mindfulness at Google.