http://www.ted.com Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful (though there’s still one minor drawback …) and the potential is simply stunning.

Today Sony Ericsson unveiled the new Xperia Mini and Xperia Pro.

With the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini and Xperia Pro you will find solid Android 2.3 Gingerbread handsets with 1GHz second generation Snapdragon processors, a 5 megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, improved battery life and a new 3 inch multitouch display with Sony’s Bravia Engine with Reality Display. The next generation Xperia Pro shares all of these features with the Xperia Mini with the addition of a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Both phones are set for a worldwide launch with the release date in Q3 2011.

http://www.ted.com With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets — like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away — to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.

http://www.ted.com Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Rodriguez’ son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi’s son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence. In hoping to find peace, these two moms have come to understand and respect one another.

http://www.ted.com As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
Read our community Q&A with Eli (featuring 10 ways to turn off the filter bubble): http://on.ted.com/PariserQA

http://www.ted.com At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves — while learning basic principles of science and design.

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In this video I review the HTC Inspire 4G, one of the premiere Android smartphones for AT&T. The HTC Inspire 4G features outstanding build quality, solid performance, a good experience with Android 2.2 Froyo with HTC Sense, a fantastic browser with full support for Flash, typically good performance out of the 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 720p video recording, a very nice 4.3″ Super LCD display with a WVGA screen resolution of 480×800, and support for the HSPA+ AT&T 4G network.

In this episode of D3Live I discuss Android 3.1 Ice Cream.

With Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb available for phones and tablets respectively it seems that Google is preparing to converge them back into a single OS on the next iteration of Android, Android 3.1 Ice Cream. The latest delicious build of Android will likely feature a UI that is very similar to 3.0 Honeycomb along with support for 720p HD Flash video and access to Google Music.

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