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Pattie Maes: Unveiling game-changing wearable tech
http://www.ted.com This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interactio...
Renny Gleeson: Busted! The sneaky moves of antisocial smartphone users
http://www.ted.com In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less...
Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
http://www.ted.com Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications fo...
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
http://www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next...
Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond, Stanford University)
Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University) is building a "wiring diagram" for the brain. By bridging the gap between individual synapses and whole-brain learning & memory, Raymond's research offers new...
Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell, Stanford University)
Professor Brian Wandell tells the inspirational story of Mike May, the world-record holder for blind downhill skiing. Wandell leads a multidisciplinary team of Stanford researchers who are working ...
Brain-Computer Interfaces (Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University)
Krishna Shenoy is creating "brain-computer interfaces" that will enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms and computer cursors. In this short talk, Shenoy describes how his team of Stan...
Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University)
Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable pr...
Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University)
Kwabena Boahen is using the human brain as the blueprint for designing radically more powerful and energy-efficient computers. In this short demo, Boahen describes how his Brains in Silicon lab at ...
