Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category
James Cameron: Before Avatar … a curious boy
James Cameron, the creator of the biggest movies speaks to TED in February 2010, he shares his lifetime joureny since his childhood and how his sci-fi fascination with, and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits “Aliens,” “The Terminator,” “Titanic”...
March 6th, 2010 | Featured, Inspiration | Read More
Tom Shannon: The painter and the pendulum
TED visits Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art, revealing some of his brilliant work, created using unconventional methods; mad science!
February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Inspiration | Read More
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
At TED India, Derek Sivers explains how things on the opposite side of the world work, what works here could also work there but in a different way!
…sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn’t know we even had and realize that the opposite...
February 13th, 2010 | Featured, Inspiration | Read More
Clay Shirky: Consumers, Bad Experience and Collective Action
This 2-year old presentation by Clay Shirky about collective action consumers can take when they suffer a bad experience in the era of social media. The presentation took place at the GEL conference in April 2008.
Clay Shirky at Gel 2008 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
February 9th, 2010 | Inspiration | Read More
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
Earlier last year, researcher Pattie Maes has demonstrated the SixthSense, a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
The SixthSense, which was invented by Pranav Mistry, is...
February 4th, 2010 | Inspiration | Read More




