You can learn plenty from smashing TED Talks to the face, but every now and again they can crack you up, too. This comedian’s long con is quite brilliant.
Ever since their online debut six years ago, the TEDTalks videos have attracted an ever-growing audience. The fascinating talks, which cover a seemingly endless range of topics, feature some of the most inspirational speakers alive. Yesterday the TED Blog released a list of the 20 most-watched videos to date. Warning, this will ruin your productivity for the remainder of the day.
You can do a lot worse on the internet these days than watching the odd TED talk online. Here’s a particularly worthy one, in my opinion, as Kevin Alloca from Youtube discusses the dynamics of how and why videos go viral.
For most kids, at 12-years old their biggest technological achievement is beating the boss at the end of a video game, or having more songs on their iPod than their peers. Thomas Suarez sees things a little differently. Instead of clocking games he creates them.
They made a robot seagull. It flies by flapping its robot seagull wings. I mean yes this is a huge breakthrough in terms of flight engineering, but even if that’s not your jam, you’re going to want to take a look at the awesome two-metre wide flying robot on display at TEDGlobal.
We’ve featured the odd TED talk here on 2oceansvibe before. Whether you know about TED or not, I’ve got a feeling you will enjoy them. In a nutshell, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an “invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. This annual conference brings together the world’s most […]