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Hardware | Google Glass Will Make You Manly, Says Sergey Brin
Google co-foudner Sergey Brin said smartphones are "socially isolating" and "emasculating" during a talk at the TED conference Wednesday.
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Big Tech | The Internet Needs a Plan B
Internet and computer pioneer Danny Hillis thinks the internet needs a backup, a Plan B.
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Mobile | Meet the Common Man’s Robot: Headless and Adorable
Entrepreneur Keller Rinaudo says the Romo, a $150 robot with that needs your iPhone for its head, could finally make home robots ubiquitous. He spoke at the TED conference Tuesday.
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Bender | The Other TED Prize
This year at TED there’s another measure of success, how high a number you can generate with a brainwave reading helmet on your head and a digital cube floating in front of your face.
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Education | Digital Elite Flirt With Socialism (and Nixon) at TED
TED speakers are quoting Marx and talking about extensive new wealth redistribution programs, making the conference for digital elites a surprising hotbed for leftist economic ideas.
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Education | Verbal Java: Meaning-Based Language Can Be Instantly Translated
By encoding meaning instead of words, the Free Speech engine can easily render a given piece of information -- like a news article or school lesson -- into any language. Its developer, Indian...
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Digital Content | TED on the Run: How a Conference Copes With Success — and...
A 13-year-old Maasai who wired up a novel electrical system to discourage lions from attacking his Kenyan village’s cattle. Two teenage girls from Vancouver who sought out river bacteria that can...
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Education | Texting Isn’t Writing, It’s Fingered Speech
All the handwringing by 7th-grade English teachers and parents over the tens of millions of grammatically challenged texts sent every day misses the point of what texting is: it's speech.
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Startups | Even Apple Would Love This Dramatic Industrial Demo
By almost failing, a demonstration of a "hyper-repellant" industrial chemical was a smashing success at the TED conference. Here's the nail-biting backstory of Ultra-Ever Dry.
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Kill Your Meeting Room — The Future’s in Walking and Talking
In my recent talk at TED2013 and elsewhere I've been advocating for “walking meetings” because we spend more time sitting than sleeping. The solution seems so obvious, yet it raises all sorts of “But…”...
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