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TED Talks

TED: TikTok's CEO on its future — and what makes its algorithm different | Shou Chew

12th - Higher Ed
TikTok CEO Shou Chew dives into how the trend-setting video app and cultural phenomenon works — from what distinguishes its algorithm and drives virality to the challenges of content moderation and digital addiction. In a wide-ranging...
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TED: Gourmet food for the final frontier | Phnam Bagley

12th - Higher Ed
What does an in-flight meal look like when you're traveling to Mars? Designer Phnam Bagley envisions a future where astronauts have nourishing, flavorful food reminiscent of home -- a giant leap from their current staple of...
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Racing motorbike company develops wheelchairs for dogs

Higher Ed
AP Television Kobaiyashi City (Chiba Prefecture)18 May 2009 1. Various of Akebono Katsue as she places her 8 year old corgi, Momotan into a wheel chair and begin their daily walk. 2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Akebono Katsue, Momotan's...
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TED: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions | Scott Galloway

12th - Higher Ed
The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four companies come to infiltrate our lives so completely? In a spectacular rant, Scott Galloway shares...
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TED: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet | Dan Bricklin

12th - Higher Ed
Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and grandfather of programs you probably use every day like Microsoft excel and Google Sheets. Join the software engineer and computing...
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TED Talks

Tim Brown: Designers -- think big!

12th - Higher Ed
Tim Brown says the design profession has a bigger role to play than just creating nifty, fashionable little objects. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking" -- starting with the example of...
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TED Talks

Greg Lynn: Organic algorithms in architecture

12th - Higher Ed
Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium tea set) illustrate his...
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TED Talks

Kriti Sharma: How to keep human bias out of AI

12th - Higher Ed
AI algorithms make important decisions about you all the time -- like how much you should pay for car insurance or whether or not you get that job interview. But what happens when these machines are built with human bias coded into their...
Instructional Video17:33
TED Talks

Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology

12th - Higher Ed
Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials...
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TED Talks

Ross Lovegrove: Organic design, inspired by nature

12th - Higher Ed
Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair.
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TED Talks

Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

12th - Higher Ed
Chemist Lee Cronin is working on a 3D printer that, instead of objects, is able to print molecules. An exciting potential long-term application: printing your own medicine using chemical inks.
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TED Talks

TED: A vehicle built in Africa, for Africa | Joel Jackson

12th - Higher Ed
Joel Jackson wants to reimagine transportation around the needs of the African consumer. He's designed an SuV that's rugged enough for long stretches of uneven terrain and affordable enough to be within reach of those who need it most....
Instructional Video11:44
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TED: Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers | Alice Rawsthorn

12th - Higher Ed
In this ode to design renegades, Alice Rawsthorn highlights the work of unlikely heroes, from Blackbeard to Florence Nightingale. Drawing a line from these bold thinkers to some early modern visionaries like Buckminster Fuller, Rawsthorn...
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TED: A delightful way to teach kids about computers | Linda Liukas

12th - Higher Ed
Computer code is the next universal language, and its syntax will be limited only by the imaginations of the next generation of programmers. Linda Liukas is helping to educate problem-solving kids, encouraging them to see computers not...
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TED Talks

TED: How Airbnb designs for trust | Joe Gebbia

12th - Higher Ed
Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, bet his whole company on the belief that people can trust each other enough to stay in one another's homes. How did he overcome the stranger-danger bias? Through good design. Now, 123 million hosted...
Instructional Video18:50
TED Talks

Charles Leadbeater: The era of open innovation

12th - Higher Ed
In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't.
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TED Talks

Paul Bennett: Design is in the details

12th - Higher Ed
Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems.
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TED: A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam | Ashton Cofer

12th - Higher Ed
From packing peanuts to disposable coffee cups, each year the uS alone produces some two billion pounds of Styrofoam -- none of which can be recycled. Frustrated by this waste of resources and landfill space, Ashton Cofer and his science...
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TED Talks

TED: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives | Tom Gruber

12th - Higher Ed
How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us...
Instructional Video15:27
TED Talks

TED: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti

12th - Higher Ed
What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more...
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TED: The reporting system that sexual assault survivors want | Jessica Ladd

12th - Higher Ed
We don't have to live in a world where 99 percent of rapists get away with it, says TED Fellow Jessica Ladd. With Callisto, a new platform for college students to confidentially report sexual assault, Ladd is helping survivors get the...
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TED Talks

Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards

12th - Higher Ed
Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world -- he even won awards for it. But he and his team learned a hard lesson when their incubator completely failed to catch on. Hear his...
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TED Talks

Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe

12th - Higher Ed
60% of people with dementia wander off, an issue that can prove hugely stressful for both patients and caregivers. In this charming talk, hear how teen inventor Kenneth Shinozuka came up with a novel solution to help his night-wandering...
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TED Talks

TED: A futuristic vision of the age of holograms | Alex Kipman

12th - Higher Ed
explore a speculative digital world without screens in this fanciful demo, a mix of near reality and far-future possibility. Wearing the HoloLens headset, Alex Kipman demos his vision for bringing 3D holograms into the real world,...