Tag Archives: TED

Tactile Computing

Every now and then someone at TED presents a tech­no­logy or an idea that’s so utterly amaz­ing, or ridicu­lously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT pro­ject called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been mess­ing around with com­put­ing for 25 years my jaw is …

Fri February 13, 2009 – 23:07 | By seb | Posted in ideas, programming, science, tubed | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Thinking About Genius

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the 2006 best seller Eat, Pray, Love, and in this year’s TED talks gave a fant­astic talk on the nature of cre­at­ive genius. In a room full of sci­ent­ists, this talk on being pos­sessed by a cre­at­ive muse, a spirit of genius, raised a stand­ing ova­tion. This utterly enthralling talk is an …

Fri February 13, 2009 – 22:57 | By seb | Posted in design, ideas, tubed, writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off