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Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps at TED
In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft [...]
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Watch Randy Pausch’s “Really achieving your childhood dreams” talk at TED
In 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who was dying of pancreatic cancer, delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention. This moving talk will teach you how to really achieve your childhood dreams. Unmissable [...]
Autodesk Software Core to Realization of James Cameron’s Creative Vision for “Avatar”
From start to finish, software from Autodesk, Inc. , played a pivotal role in helping James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment pioneer new methods of virtual moviemaking, for Cameron's history-making motion picture "Avatar" [...]
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Watch Tim Brown urge designers to think big at TED
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking." [...]
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Design in China: A “Chinese iPad” arrived before Apple’s iPad?
While Apple iPad tablet has just been unveiled in the U.S., a product of similar appearance strangely there for six months now on the Chinese market.The resemblance has prompted local websites, including Shanzhai.com, technology blog dedicated to Chinese copies, with irony on the turn made by domestic manufacturers now able to clone a product before it has been revealed.Its manufacturer is surprised: "Why Apple did the same thing as us?" [...]
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Watch A.J. Jacobs’ “year of living biblically” talk at TED
Speaking at a recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible [...]
Watch Lalitesh Katragadda’s “Making maps to fight disaster, build economies” talk at TED
As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster -- and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google's Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world [...]

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