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.

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A few months back I had the idea of comparing slogans from new and old video game systems. Much of the marketing speak from video game console boxes remains the same today as it was in 1985 so today I compare which video game slogan is which from the Sega Master System, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Entertainment system (NES), Microsoft Xbox, Apple iPod touch, Sega Game Gear, Super Nintendo (SNES), Sony Playstation 2 (PS2), Nintendo 64 (N64), Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), Microsoft Xbox 360, Sega Genesis, Nintendo Virtual Boy and the Nintendo 3DS.

http://www.ted.com Pollination: it’s vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film “Wings of Life,” inspired by the vanishing of one of nature’s primary pollinators, the honeybee.

In this video I review the Nintendo Game Boy Camera.

In 1998 Nintendo released the Game Boy Camera, an add on that is compatible with the Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP. Known as the world’s smallest digital camera when released, the Game Boy Camera allowed you to take 128×112 digital pictures in a whopping 4 colors. It was also compatible with the Game Boy Printer, allowing you to print the photos you take with the Game Boy Camera.

The Game Boy Camera has a few key features including a surprisingly robust camera with options to use a self timer, time lapse, mirror and zoom effects and more, a view option that allows you to view your photos in a slideshow or using the unique Hot-Spot mode and a play mode that included the Space Fever II arcade game, DJ mode which allowed you to create chiptunes and Ball which bares a lot of similarities to the original Game and Watch.

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In this episode of D3Live I go over some of the top Frequently Asked Questions about jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. There are many pros if you jailbreak your iDevice including the freedom to install any type of software you like.

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

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In this video I give a full tutorial on how jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 using redsn0w 0.9.6rc15 on an iPhone 3GS (new and old bootrom), iPhone 4, iPod touch 3G (16GB and 32GB models only), iPod touch 4G and the original iPad 1. The iPad 2 is not currently supported. redsn0w 0.9.6rc15 is an untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 and is available for both Mac and Windows.

If you use Windows 7 then you will need to do an additional step to avoid any problems, errors or issues. Right click redsn0w 0.9.6rc15 and under the Compatibility tab select Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) as well as run it as Administrator.

http://www.ted.com At TEDxCaltech, cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks — in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe — a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The potential answers point to a surprising view of the nature of the universe, and our place in it.