Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
Adults Art Creativity HumorArtist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen -- that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.
Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
Adults Psychology SelfBody language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
Keith Barry: Brain magic
Adults Art CreativityKeith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
X Games Los Angeles 2012: Hot Wheels Double Dare Loop
Adults Sports TransportationTanner Foust and Greg Tracy conquer the Hot Wheels Double Dare Loop at X Games Los Angeles.
Highest Resolution Machu Picchu Picture Ever Taken
Adults History Photography WorldHave you ever made a panorama? Cool! But, have you ever made a panorama consisting of 1920 photos??? No! Check out this little behind the scenes video for such a panorama in one of the most iconic places on earth - Machu Picchu in Peru. As you will see, you're not going to take this one hand-held, and there is a bit of paper work to be done you go there. Travel through the final photo here
JoJo & Buddy
Adults Animals RelationshipsJoJo the Indian Ringneck and Buddy the Quaker Parrot have a little thing going on
Here's the Surface tablet I really want!
Adults Gadgets TechnologySome Australian dude upgraded his Surface table (which ran a special version of Windows 7) to regular Windows 8 -- and here's what it looks like. What's the matter with you, Microsoft? Are you going to wait until Apple has a giant touch desktop on the market for four years before you try to enter the market?
Streetfighting with Tesla Coils
Adults Creativity PhysicsWatch as these talented performers use electricity to entertain the crowds at Belfast Festival
Life of PI Trailer
Adults Film MarketingDirector Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a tragic disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While marooned on a lifeboat, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with the ship's only other survivor -- a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other
Adults Art Creativity TVThe suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and does a card trick like you've never seen before, weaving a lyrical tale as he deals. (This version fixes a glitch in the original performance, but is otherwise exactly as seen live by the TEDGlobal audience, including the dazzling augmented reality effects.)
The first airline safety video I've wanted to watch to the end...
Adults Creativity TransportationAir New Zealand partnered with WETA Workshop on a brand new Hobbit inspired Safety Video. It features cameo appearances including Sir Peter Jackson. Visit http://www.airnzcode.com/hobbitmovie to Find and Unlock the Elvish Code for your chance to win one of six double passes to the World Premiere Screening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in New Zealand on the 28th of November 2012