Sixth Sense : Pranav Mistry’s mind blowing TED talk
I said to myself wow, mind blowing when I first saw demos of Microsoft Surface or iPhone, this beats them all. Use cases are end less for this of-course it is at very early stage and might not be a there for masses in the near future. You must watch this video. To know more about Sixth Sense
TED India in November 2009
The famous get together of intellectuals and achievers is coming to India. TED (stands for Technology – Entertainment – Design) conference is a 3 day event with speeches and presentations by successful businessmen, scientists, inventors and achievers in other areas.
TED conferences are very informative and also very entertaining. Watch some of the TED videos posted in this blog to get some taste of TED speeches. There will be other events and cultural programs apart from speeches.
Mobile phone tricks – Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone
Another entertaining and informative talk by David Pogue
– Technology Columnist for New York Times.
Why can’t we regrow our body parts?
Another fantastic TED talk. Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine — a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury by helping the body to rebuild itself. He shows how engineered tissue that “speaks the body’s language” has helped a man regrow his lost fingertip, how stem cells by qualcomm purevoice software, similar to. can rebuild damaged heart muscle, and how cell therapy can regenerate the skin of burned soldiers. This new, low-impact medicine comes just in time, Russell says — our aging population, with its steeply rising medical bills, will otherwise (and soon) cause a crisis in health care systems around the world. Some graphic medical imagery.
Top 10 threats to human race
In this interesting TED talk Stephen Petranek discusses top ten threats for humans race. He also gives his solutions to rescue human race from these threats. As per Stephen, below are the top ten things that can result in extinction of human race form this universe.
10. Depression
9. Aliens
8. The Echo System collapses
7. Particle Acceleration Mishap
6. Biotech Disaster
5. Reversal of Earth Magnetic Field
4. Solar Flares
3. A new global epidemic
2. We meet a rogue black
hole
1. A really big
asteroid hitting
the earth
TED Talk: Jeff Skoll- Making movies that make change
In this TED talk Jeff Skoll,ebay co-founder talks about his company Participant Productions which makes movies that are issue-driven and inspiring. Participant Productions produced movies like An Inconvenient Truth,American Gun and Fast Food Nation. Very interesting talk.
TED Talk: Martin Rees- Is earth in it’s final century?
Another interesting TED talk by Martin Rees a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. In this video, he talks about the big bang theory. The images of cosmic wonders shown in this video are brilliant, also the visuals on big bang theory.
Ted Talk: Fly to the moons of Saturn
Another interesting TED talk by Carolyn Porco. “Fly to the moons of planet Saturn”, interesting things about Saturn and it’s moons. Amazing pictures of moons of Saturn.
How the mind works?
A great talk by Vilayanur Ramachandran ” A journey to the center of your mind”
Great speeches by great people
In this article I am going to provide the links to some of the great speeches. Most of these speeches are in video/audio format. Most of these speeches are in business/technology domain. I find these speeches very inspirational .
1. View from the Top: Narayana Murthy (Infosys chairman) and Sudha Murthi at Stanford university. - Check out profile of Narayana Murthy
2. Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Stanford University. - Here is wikipedia Steve Jobs profile
3. Azim Premji (Wipro Chairman) at Stanford University.Â
4. Interview with Jack Welch (Retired GE CEO)Â - Interesting interview in which he talks about top 20, middle 70 and bottem 10 methodology of rewarding employees. He also talks about how to motivating employees and people managment. Check out Jack Welch’s profile.
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