Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

http://www.ted.com Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing — which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

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.

Building a dinosaur from a chicken | Jack Horner

http://www.ted.com Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a “Chickenosaurus”.

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.

Nintendo Wii U Unveiled

Nintendo Wii U Unveiled

Today at E3 2011 the Nintendo Wii U was unveiled, the next generation of their current console, the Nintendo Wii. The Wii U features vastly improved HD graphics, a new controller with a 6.2 inch touchscreen while still keeping roughly the same form factor. The Nintendo Wii U will be released next year.

PSVita Overview

PSVita Overview

More info: http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/sonys-playstation-vita-official-3g-available-only-through-atandt/

In this video I give an overview of the Sony PSVita, the successor to the PSP and previously known as the NGP. The Vita keeps the same specs as it had previously with a 5 inch OLED touchscreen, quad core processor, six axis motion control, front and rear facing cameras, a rear touchpanel and both Wi-Fi and 3G models. Sony also showed off several PSVita games at the E3 2011 press conference including the Uncharted: Golden Abyss, LittleBigPlanet, Street Fighter X Tekken as well as a version of BioShock.

Now there is both a release date and price. The Sony PSVita will be available later this year for $249 for the Wi-Fi model and $299 for the 3G model.

iOS 5 Full Details

iOS 5 Full Details

More info: http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/apples-ios-5-all-the-details/

Today at WWDC 2011 Apple unveiled iOS 5, the latest version of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. iOS 5 brings a lot of new features including Notification Center which brings a new notification system similar to Android.

There also is Twitter integration which will allow you to log into Twitter from the Settings page and Tweet from several apps such as Maps, Safari and YouTube. Safari has also been improved with Reader, Reading List and Tabbed Browsing. In the Camera app you can take photos from the lockscreen, take a photo with the + volume button and do some retouching and photo editing from the app.

PC Free is a big new feature that allows you to wirelessly sync your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad without needing a computer ever, even to activate. Firmware updates are also now downloaded over the air. iMessage is another big feature that brings BBM style messaging to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Damon Horowitz calls for a “moral operating system”

http://www.ted.com At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more — and more about each other — than ever before. Drawing the audience into a philosophical discussion, Horowitz invites us to pay new attention to the basic philosophy — the ethical principles — behind the burst of invention remaking our world. Where’s the moral operating system that allows us to make sense of it?

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.

D3Live: PlayStation Vita & Wii 2

In this episode of D3Live I look at the PlayStation Vita and Wii 2.

D3Live: PlayStation Vita & Wii 2

With E3 2011 only a few days away there’s a lot of talk about brand new consoles that will be unveiled at the show. On the top of my list is the Sony PlayStation PS Vita also known as the PSP2 or NGP. While much of the information is already known about this handheld successor to the Sony PSP hopefully we will get a better look at the UI and features as well as a price and release date.

Moving on we also should have some information on the next generation Nintendo Wii known as the Wii 2. There has been a lot of leaks about the Wii 2 including specs, controllers and more.

D3Live is a weekly show I do live every Saturday at 3PM Eastern time live on BlogTV. If you are interested in asking me questions for the video or just watching the show live keep an eye out as I will post a video here on YouTube before I begin. http://www.blogtv.com/people/duncan33303

Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new

http://www.ted.com Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TED but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It’s a meditation on conscious consumption — wrapped in a rainbow of color and creativity.

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.