Fly with the Jetman | Yves Rossy

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http://www.ted.com Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman — flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal stage to share the experience and thrill of flying.

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 Overview

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In this video I give an overview of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire is a 7″ tablet running a custom skin of Android 2.3 and features 8GB of storage, a 7 inch IPS display with a resolution of 1024×600, stereo speakers and access to all of Amazon’s cloud services.

Conception to birth — visualized | Alexander Tsiaras

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http://www.ted.com Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

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.

How To Get SBSettings Toggles Without a Jailbreak

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Link: http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings/

In this video I give a demo of how to get SBSettings toggles on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad without a jailbreak. With IconSettings you can get access to settings such as Network, Brightness, Airplane Mode and much more right on your home screen without jailbreaking which is especially helpful if you have an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S without a jailbreak. IconSettings is iOS 5 only.

Make Chrome Faster and More Secure

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In this video I show a simple way to make Google Chrome faster and more secure by enabling click to play plugins. With this enabled plugins such as Flash, Java and Silverlight will not automatically run on any website you use saving you the time of having to load them as well as if there is any malicious such as viruses it won’t load automatically.

Galaxy Nexus, HTC Ville, LG U1: Ice Cream Sandwich

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In this video I go over some of the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phones, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC Ville and the LG U1.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first phone to launch with Android 4.0 ICS. It sports a 1.2GHz dual core processor, 1280×720 Super AMOLED HD display and support for LTE along with HSPA+ for 4G on Verizon and other carriers around the world.

The HTC Ville looks to be the first HTC phone to launch with Ice Cream Sandwich and should sport a 4.3″ qHD display and a 1.5GHz Snapdragon CPU.

The LG U1 is the codename for the first LG Android 4.0 smartphone and looks to have a very thin and sleek design, 8 megapixel camera along with what will most likely be a 720p screen.