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A Headset That Reads Your Brainwaves

  Here’s a new astonishing technology, a computer interface that read its user’s brainwaves by using a headset, making it possible to control virtual objects and even physical electronics. With mere...

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The Rise Of Human Computer-Cooperation

  Brute computing power alone can’t resolve the world’s problems. Knowledge mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why fixing huge issues (like catching terrorists or figuring out enormous hidden...

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What The Internet Was Really Made Of

  Journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he made a research to see it — the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical components that make up the...

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Are Droids/Robots Taking Our Job? – A Talk By Andrew McAffee

  Andrew McAffee studies how technology affects businesses and society. “Within our time,were going to a transition that doesn’t need a lot of human workers. Managing that transition is going to be...

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Online Video Anotated,Remix And Popped

  This is a talk and presentation by Ryan Merkley, the Chief Operating Officer at the Mozilla Foundation about the new technique on creating and putting a video online. He explains how online videos...

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Robot That Flies Like A Real Bird

  Perhaps many of you have seen robots that fly- but none of them can fly like a real bird, that is until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird. It is a large but lightweight robot that...

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10 Tips To Becoming A Better Presenter

  Are you having doubts or not confident enough with your presentation skills? Probably most of the people are having a hard time when it comes to presenting or public speaking, this is not  a major...

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A New Kind Of Job Market

  This is a talk with Wingham Rowan the founder of social business Slivers-of-Time, which runs online markets for microworking and micro-volunteering. This is for individuals who are looking for a job...

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Robots That Fly And Cooperate

        In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams — for construction, surveying disasters and far...

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The Future Race Car

  Having a car sounds great, but sometimes it’s really exhausting to drive everyday especially when you stuck in an annoying traffic jam. Probably all of you wish that it might be awesome if there’s a...

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A 3D-printed Jumbo Jet?

  Imagine an airplane that’s full of light and space and built up from generative parts in a 3D printer. Designer Bastian Schaefer shows off a speculative design for the future of jet planes, with a...

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The Potential Of SixthSense Device

  How can we leverage our knowledge about everyday objects and how we could use them to interact with the digital world? Imagine the physical object could already interact with the digital world....

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Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures In Twitter Fiction

  In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again. Andrew Fitzgerald takes a look at the short...

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New Strategy In The War On Cancer

  Cancer is probably the most dreaded disease human have ever encountered. For decades medical scientist have been studying for possible treatment and cure for this illness. Recent study and research...

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Steve Howard: On Selling Sustainability & Eco-friendly Products

  With our growing population  and worsened eco system, what the world need today is an idea that can sustain the ecology and the same time could help us restore and protect our environment.  Steve...

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Underwater Robot

  Have you ever seen a robot that explore’s underwater? Here’s a talk from NASA engineer David Lang about his new fascinating creation. David Lang is a maker and the co-founder of OpenROV, a community...

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The Age Of Industrial Internet

  Everyone’s talking about the “Internet” things; online data,videos and online communication, but what exactly does that mean for our future? In this thoughtful talk, economist Marco Annunziata looks...

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Why Massive Open Online Courses Still Matter

  With today’s internet age everything else had change, but education remains the same although there are already a massive open online courses being offered. But this online courses are a way to...

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Robots With Soul

  Is it possible that robots can have a soul and interact the way that human beings interact with each other? Guy Hoffman  co-director of the IDC Media Invention Lab,  researches robots with soul. He...

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Why Good Hackers Make Good Citizens

  When we talk about hacker the image that comes in your mind is a cyber criminal or a nerd sitting  in front of a computer and doing illegal stuff online and there is a negative connotation...

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