TEDxShanghai » Select TEDTalks

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

Christine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:29:55 +0000

Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.

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Aimee Mullins: How my legs give me super-powers

Christine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:10:10 +0000

Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs — and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.

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Bill Gates: How I’m trying to change the world now

Christine — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:01:33 +0000

Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them. (And see the Q&A on the TED Blog.)

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Al Gore: 15 ways to avert a climate crisis

Christine — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:41:54 +0000

With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter “brand name” for global warming.

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Evan Williams: How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

Christine — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:38:49 +0000

In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.

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