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TED | Technology, Entertainment, Design is a good site to visit to watch and hear some great ideas for our future. The site hosts a number of videos of well known and respected speakers (experts in their fields), on a variety of topics: some serious, some fun, and all very awe inspiring.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
I recently caught a series on TV on Super string theory - or the theory of everything in the universe. The series is called The Elegant Universe. It is shown by NOVA, an online science site with several video programmes.
"BigDog" must be the creepiest thing created. very clearly lifelike in its responses and reaction times. when it was moving through the wild terrain, i initially thought it was somekind of grotesquely mutated animal. when kicked, it look almost whimpering. and the slip and slide on ice... man. you have to see this.
http://gizmodo.com/370698/colbert-first-vid-of-dean-kamens-miracle-water...
this video shows Dean Kamen's (Segway inventor) distilled water invention. Essentially, you can put into the machine any fluid (sea water, dirty water, urine etc) and it will distill this into plain drinkable water. Kamen has high hopes for his new invention which he says can help 1.2billion people in the world who live without clean water.
Dropbox looks like a great internet service. In a nutshell it provides users with a service that is able to synchronise files on one's hard drive with that on the internet. each user will have a virtual hard drive on the 'Net. And this virtual hard drive can be depicted as a drive on your own computer's drive space. Just watch the video on the site (http://www.getdropbox.com/), to see what i mean.
