World Record Paper Airplane Distance
Adults CreativityThe New World Champion Paper Airplane Book is now available for order at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and other places. Learn to fold this plane.
Assumptions
Adults CreativityEyes are great for watching videos and whatnot, but can we really trust them?
Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
Adults CreativityArtist 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.
Keith Barry: Brain magic
Adults 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.
Streetfighting with Tesla Coils
Adults CreativityWatch as these talented performers use electricity to entertain the crowds at Belfast Festival
Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other
Adults CreativityThe 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.)
Halloween Scare/Prank! Head Drop Illusion
Adults CreativityMagician Rich Ferguson doing a Halloween head drop trick on the streets of his home town San Luis Obispo. During the day, this is a great illusion, but during night and in a more vulnerable setting, this freaks people out BIG TIME!
Japanese Crystal Ball Performer (Contact Juggling)
Adults CreativityThis guy was hanging out in Yoyogi park in Harajuku, Tokyo, on a Sunday afternoon. He has clearly practiced a lot! I loved the music he played during his performance. My friends and I were completely mesmerized. He has a very expressive face too, with a charming smile... it really sells the show in the end. Made me feel like a little kid.
Use a Cordless Power Drill in the Kitchen
Adults CreativityA cordless drill is probably the last thing you'd imagine being useful in a kitchen, but over on Make Projects, DIYer Jason Poel Smith shows off how to use a drill to quickly clean dirty pans, as a mixer, cheese grater, and pepper mill attachment.
Need Your Heart Dubstep
Adults CreativityMarquese "Nonstop" Scott once again demonstrates his grace and insane body control, dancing to a remix of Need Your Heart.