http://www.ted.com Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you’ll live — and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.

http://www.ted.com Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature’s most elegant materials — in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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HP Veer 4G Unboxing

Today I do an unboxing of the HP Veer 4G, the latest smartphone from Palm and HP for AT&T. The HP Veer 4G is a webOS 2 phone running webOS 2.1.2. The successor to the Palm Pixi Plus, the Veer sports a new portrait slide out keyboard design very similar to the Pre. It sports a 2.6 inch display with a resolution of 320×400, support for the AT&T HSPA+ 4G network, 5 megapixel camera, a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7230 CPU clocked at 800Mhz, 8GB of internal storage, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and GPS.

The HP Veer 4G will be available May 15th on AT&T for $99 on a 2 year contract.

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Acer Chromebook and Samsung Series 5 First Look

In this video I take a first look at Acer Chromebook and Samsung Series 5 Chrome OS notebooks. Today at Google I/O 2011 the Google Chrome team unveiled the first shipping computers with Chrome OS.