Google Maps Panoramic Imagery
AdultsBusinessTechnologyTravel...Google Maps is releasing panoramic imagery of one of the world's most spectacular national monuments: the Grand Canyon. These Street View images cover more than 75 miles of trails and surrounding roads, making our map of this area even more comprehensive, accurate and easy to use than ever before.
I think we underestimate the impact of technology.
AdultsHealthTechnologySocietyWe know that it will get us our email faster or help us navigate smarter with GPS/Maps or apply special filters to our photos and send them and the world instantly.
Animatronic Robot
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceTechnologyHanson Robotics collaborated with researchers at the University of California at San Diego to create this boy robot they've named Diego-San. The face was built by Hanson Robotics, and the body was built by Japan's Kokoro Co. Diego-San can see with HD cameras in his eyes, and uses artificial intelligence software "modeled on human babies" so that he learns.
Futuristic highways in the Netherlands glow in the dark
AdultsGlobal WarmingTechnologyTransportationA futuristic highway that can save energy and improve road safety is set to be installed in the Netherlands by mid-2013.
New Google+ Feature: Communities
AdultsMarketingSocial MediaTechnology...With Google+ Communities, you can talk about the stuff you're into with people who love it too. Plan events, start hangouts, and share with your communities from across the web.
Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
AdultsArtCreativityHumor...Artist 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.
Quantum Levitation
AdultsPhysicsScienceTechnologyTel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.
Here's the Surface tablet I really want!
AdultsGadgetsTechnologySome 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
AdultsCreativityPhysicsEntertainment...Watch as these talented performers use electricity to entertain the crowds at Belfast Festival
Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other
AdultsArtCreativityTV...The 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 Killer Whale Submarine
AdultsSportsTechnologyEngineering...This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the Orcinus orca after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2"-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale's pectoral fins for rolls and stealthy dives. With a finger on the right lever's throttle trigger, steering is provided by dual foot pedals that control the vectored thrust of the craft's 255-hp supercharged Rotax axial flow engine, enabling realistic behaviors such as porpoising or skyhopping.
The World We Dream- Hugh Herr Zeitgeist Americas 2012
AdultsBiotechnologyScienceTechnology...Do you want to have your mind blown? Watch this. (This will cost you 13.5 minutes) Hugh Herr, Director of Biomechatronics at MIT University delivers an amazing talk that will touch your soul. I was in the audience. I was almost in the back row. For the opening few minutes of the talk, I couldn't see his feet. So imagine what happened when I finally stood up and saw his legs.
First underwater panoramas in Google Maps
AdultsAnimalsNatureTechnology...We've added the very first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps, the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world. With these vibrant and stunning photos you don't have to be a scuba diver-or even know how to swim-to explore and experience six of the ocean's most incredible living coral reefs. Now, anyone can become the next virtual Jacques Cousteau and dive with sea turtles, fish and manta rays in Australia and Hawaii. Check it out
Breathtaking! - Mars Curiosity Descent
AdultsSpaceTechnologyScienceUltra-resolution, smooth-motion, detail-enhanced, color-corrected, interpolated from the original 4 frames per second to 30 frames per second. This video plays real-time at the speed that Curiosity descended to the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012. I think it's wonderful that everyone on Earth has a chance to see this amazing footage from Mars :)
Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay
AdultsEducationTechnologySocietyUruguay has joined the small number of nations providing a laptop for every child attending state primary school. President Tabare Vazquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 October. Over the last two years 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers have been involved in the scheme. The "Plan Ceibal" (Education Connect) project has allowed many families access to the world of computers and the internet for the first time.
Camera shutter speed synchronized with helicopter blade frequency
AdultsPhotographyTechnologyTransportation...This is what happens when you sync your camera shutter to the speed of helicopter blades.
How to Wrap Your Heaphones Without Losing Your Mind
AdultsGadgetsTechnologyHow-toNow you can watch videos without fighting your crazy pile of headphones first.