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Daniel M

TED Blog: Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense on TED.com - 2 views

  • This demo, from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT (and spearheaded by her student Pranav Mistry), was the buzz of TED2009. Sixth Sense is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some. (Recorded in February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 08:42.)
Alix R

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    TED Talks. A demonstration of Augmented Reality technology and how it is used today, for more than video games. Most people use this technology everyday.
Honor Moorman

Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.
Emily Y

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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    Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.
Krysta M

Iqbal Quadir says mobiles fight poverty | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Mobile communication helps poverty, and connects people.
Vicki Davis

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com - 1 views

  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas
    • Nicholas B
       
      I looked this up sometime around last November and immediately explored the website. It's incredible how far it has come since '07.
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    This tedtalk discusses how Microsoft is building augmented reality into searchable maps and is from Blaise Agüera y Arcas with Microsoft. This software is supposed to transform how we look at digital images. This is fascinating and also a topic that the students of NetGenEd will be reviewing as part of their research into augmented reality.
Vicki Davis

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense | Video on TED.com - 5 views

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    Important video for gesture based students to view. This is about the evolution of input into the computer.
Alix R

Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries
Mia M

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."
Sarah M

Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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    Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.
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    Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.
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    Video on the bennefits of turning paper books into electronically and freely accessible works.
Katherine C

David Merrill demos Siftables - 0 views

  • MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
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    David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands.
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