Péter Fankhauser: Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot

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http://www.ted.com Onstage at TEDGlobal, Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by a group of engineering students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and gracefully — and even dance.

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.

Kindle Fire Review

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In this video I review the Amazon Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire tablet features a 7″ IPS display, 1GHz dual core TI OMAP 4 processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. In this review I go over the screen, Android 2.3 Gingerbread based OS, speed, sound, battery life, apps, Amazon App Store, newsstand for buying magazines and newspapers, Kindle book store and reading app, Amazon MP3 store and Silk web browser.

Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids

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http://www.ted.com What’s six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid – and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait enthralls the TEDxBoulder audience with all the ways asteroids can kill, and what we must do to avoid them.

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.

State of Jailbreak: iOS 5.0.2 / 5.1

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This week on State of Jailbreak I go over the upcoming iOS 5.0.2 and 5.1 software updates for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. 5.0.2 looks to largely consist of battery life fixes on iOS 5 devices while iOS 5.1 is a larger update with new features for Siri on the iPhone 4S allowing it to take pictures, video and change system settings.

I also discuss what is going on with the iOS 5 untethered jailbreak. pod2g recently tweeted that he has found a way to get an untethered jailbreak as well as take a look at a great iOS 5 tweak, AnyLockApp.