Is the Internet what Orwell feared? Evgeny Morozov @ TED

Is the Internet what Orwell feared? Evgeny Morozov @ TED

The other side of the argument advanced by Shirky. Morozov, of Belarus, says that dictators use new tech to manage the masses. “TED Fellow and journalist …

How We Read Other Peoples’ Minds - Rebecca Saxe at TED

How We Read Other Peoples’ Minds - Rebecca Saxe at TED

Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab …

The Best Camera is the One You Have With You - Shawn Rocco

The Best Camera is the One You Have With You - Shawn Rocco

N&O photographer, Shawn Rocco fires up Ignite/Raleigh with pictures taken using the best camera — the one you have with you. Nice pictures from a …

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a …

Jacek Utko designs to save newspapers (maybe)

Jacek Utko designs to save newspapers (maybe)

Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to …

David Pogue: Simplicity Sells

David Pogue: Simplicity Sells

New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny …

Social Media explained in Plain English and with cut outs

Social Media explained in Plain English and with cut outs

Not only does this video do a good and simple overview of social media and by extension citizen media, the way in which they tell …

The Simple Life - John Maeda

The Simple Life - John Maeda

About this talk The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he …