Technology

Interactive Mirror

Trippy new technology…!

Artistic & Creative, Technology

Lang Lang Plays Piano On The iPad

Chinese piano virtuoso plays piano on the iPad at Davies Hall in San Francisco.

Technology

World’s Largest Multi-Touch Wall

4574 sq ft, 34 million pixels. Installed in Nürburgring, a famous motorsport race track around the village of Nürburg, Germany.

Technology

Laptop Of The Future?

The Rolltop is an interesting laptop concept using a flexible display, by Orkin Design: www.orkin-design.de

Technology

Evan Grant: Cymatics (Visible Sound)

Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs. Grant works with cymatics, the art of visualizing sound, and is the founder of the arts and technology collective seeper.

Technology

Adjustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses

Atomic physicist Joshua Silver invented liquid-filled optical lenses to produce low-cost, adjustable glasses, giving sight to millions without access to an optometrist. He delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible — adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020.

Technology

Eric Giler: Wireless Electricity Demo

Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version: WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, and pacemaker.

Technology

Rise Of The Machines

They’re getting better, faster, stronger.

Science, Technology

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field In 3D

An animation rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. Every galaxy in the image is in its proper distance as viewed from the telescope line of sight.

Mind-Blowing, Science, Technology

Did You Know?

A dizzying array of fascinating statistics, presented just slowly enough to…nah, you’d have to watch this 50 times to absorb it all.

Artistic & Creative, Technology

Golan Levin: Marriage Of Art & Technology

Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools — robotics, new software, cognitive research — to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer.

Technology

Scotch Tape Makes Frosted Glass Transparent

I don’t really know why it works (though I might proffer a guess)…but this seems like a cool spy trick to me.