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Screen time can also be family time. Here’s how to do it.

Like many parents, technology researcher Jordan Shapiro knew little about video games -- and what he knew, he didn't like. But that's what his kids wanted to play. Through exploration and experimentation, he found they can be used to teach valuable lessons and build togetherness. On afternoons when I have custody of my 11- and 13-year-old boys,...
Posted February 19, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/screen-time-can-also-be-family-time-heres-how-to-do-it

Stages of Life: Notes from Session 5 of TEDSummit 2019

The penultimate session of TEDSummit 2019 had a bit of everything -- new thoughts on aging, loneliness and happiness as well as breakthrough science, music and even a bit of comedy. The event: TEDSummit 2019, Session 5: Stages of Life, hosted by Kelly Stoetzel and Alex Moura When and where: Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 5pm BST, at the Edi...
Posted July 24, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/07/24/stages-of-life-notes-from-session-5-of-tedsummit-2019

How to watch TED Live

TED Live doesn’t require finding a good seat in the auditorium. With a TED Live membership, you can watch TED2013 and TEDGlobal 2013 from the comfort of your home, share it with your classmates or screen it with your co-workers in the office. In other words, there is no one way to watch. You can grab some friends and gather around a lap...
Posted December 11, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/12/11/how-to-watch-ted-live

The 5 best talks to re-watch with our HD, full-screen video player

They say that change is hard, but this is one that will be easy to roll with. TED.com has a new, improved video player, built in large part thanks to your user requests. What should you expect? For starters, higher quality video, easier-to-read (and find) subtitles, and a toolbar that makes sharing, rating and favoriting talks easy. Oh, a...
Posted June 21, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/21/the-5-best-talks-to-re-watch-with-our-new-hd-full-screen-video-player

Our strange relationship to screens: Performance artist Lars Jan explores our hyper-networked world

Lars Jan, a TED Fellow, creates multimedia performances that probe the ubiquity of screens and propaganda in our culture. Today, his show ABACUS—billed as "a multimedia talking tour of our hyper-networked world to come"—opens at BAM's Fisher Fishman Space in Brooklyn, New York. It's a show delivered by his invented persona, Paul Abacus, abou...
Posted November 4, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/11/04/fellows-friday-with-lars-jan

What's new with TED's iPhone app? Q&A with our developer and project leader

TED iPhone developer Matt Drance at TED2011. Photo: Robert Leslie At the launch of the TED iPhone app, the TED Blog sat down with project leader Thaniya Keereepart and engineer Matt Drance to talk about working together, building new features and what's coming next from our mobile team. Thaniya Keereepart: I work for TED, I do product ...
Posted November 29, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/11/29/whats-new-with-teds-iphone-app-qa-with-our-developer-and-project-leader

'Crazy Rich Asians' shows that diversity onscreen is a win for everyone

Crazy Rich Asians, a new Hollywood film that is an adaptation of the best-selling book by Kevin Kwan, topped the box office over the weekend, proving the "power of diversity (again)." The romantic comedy is a major motion picture with big studio backing and a reported budget of $30 million. For Hollywood it also presents something unique:...
Posted August 21, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/08/21/crazy-rich-asians-shows-that-diversity-onscreen-is-a-win-for-everyone

Cameras that draw comics, diagnose eye prescriptions and more: Q&A with Ramesh Raskar

At TEDGlobal2012, Ramesh Raskar demonstrated his remarkable femtosecond camera, which can image a light-pulse as it travels through an object, or potentially see around corners. But Raskar's projects go far beyond even that. After the talk, in a brief Q&A with host Bruno Giussani (above) he introduced NETRA, a simple attachment for a smar...
Posted July 26, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/26/cameras-that-draw-comics-diagnose-eye-prescriptions-and-more-qa-with-ramesh-raskar

From 1984 to 2016: TED Talks about interfaces to our technology

Over the past 10 years, TED Talks videos have tracked our ever-tighter relationship with technology -- including the tools we use to access it, our interfaces ... from keyboards and mice to magic wands and sensory vests. For our guide to this evolving field, we start with MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte’s talk from the very first TED, ...
Posted June 28, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/06/28/from-1984-to-2016-ted-talks-about-interfaces-to-our-technology

EyeWire’s creative director on how she got her job from an email, how her team is highlighting the beauty of the brain

Amy Robinson maxed out her bank account to attend TEDGlobal 2010. While there, she heard Sebastian Seung of MIT give the talk “I am my connectome” and knew she had to talk to him. Two years later, Robinson—the organizer of TEDxHuntsville—saw on Twitter that Seung was launching something new: EyeWire, a game allowing citizen scientists aro...
Posted May 8, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/05/08/eyewires-creative-director-on-her-ted-experience

Further reading (and listening) on the shrinking boundary between humans and computers

“Throughout the history of computers, we’ve been striving to shorten the gap between us and digital information, the gap between our physical world and the world in the screen,” interface designer Jinha Lee says in today’s talk. Lee points out that the gap has become shorter and shorter—it’s now “less than a millimeter, the thickness of a...
Posted July 3, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/07/03/further-reading-and-listening-on-the-shrinking-boundary-between-humans-and-computers

What can scientists learn from dolphins playing whack-a-mole?

By creating tech that lets dolphins play computer games and request belly rubs, we can understand their intelligence and perhaps even get a preview of life on other planets, says marine mammal researcher Diana Reiss. In some ways, dolphins and humans aren’t so different. We’re both intelligent, social animals, and we both rely on complex vocal ...
Posted September 27, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/what-can-scientists-learn-from-dolphins-playing-whack-a-mole

Blocking light to see planets beyond the solar system: Jeremy Kasdin at TED2014

"The universe is teeming with planets," and Jeremy Kasdin, an astronomer at Princeton University, wants to see them. Not in the way they've been detected so far, but directly. He wants to build a space telescope that will image a planet around another star and tell if it harbors life. There is probably one per star in the galaxy, and maybe 1...
Posted March 19, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/19/blocking-light-to-see-planets-beyond-the-solar-system-jeremy-kasdin-at-ted2014

The making of TED-Ed’s first 360° animation

  Virtual reality is an emerging medium for artists and educators. Painting is an ancient art form; some cave paintings were made up to 40,000 years ago. In TED-Ed’s first 360° animated video, you can examine the intersection of these two ideas by exploring an ancient cave and its surroundings as educator Iseult Gillespie shares a brief h...
Posted October 26, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/10/26/the-making-of-ted-eds-first-360-animation

Einstein's genius, gone minimalist

1905 was a big year for Albert Einstein. He was 26 years old and working in the Swiss Patent Office when, in the span of seven months, he published four papers that would eventually be hugely influential. In these papers, he proposed that light could be a particle, proved that atoms existed, laid out his theory of special relativity and offer...
Posted April 2, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/04/02/einsteins-genius-gone-minimalist

The first School in the Cloud opens in the UK

By Sarah Schoengold Sugata Mitra has opened the doors of the world’s first School in the Cloud. Located inside George Stephenson High School in Killingworth, England, this one-room learning lab is a space where students can embark on their own learning adventures, exploring whatever questions most intrigue them. Students even designed ...
Posted December 16, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/12/16/the-first-school-in-the-cloud-opens

Seeds for healthy cells, candy for cancer: The stop motion tricks behind this TED-Ed lesson

Making this TED-Ed video required (a) a lot of knitting and (b) a ton of boxes of Nerds. When it came time to animate the lesson “How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones?” from educator George Zaidan, our TED-Ed animators had a crazy idea for how to make cell division come alive -- using seeds and beans to animate what hea...
Posted January 2, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/02/seeds-for-healthy-cells-candy-for-cancer-the-stop-motion-tricks-behind-this-ted-ed-lesson

Get the TED2011 Program Guide for iPad and desktop

The TED2011 program guide -- containing short speaker bios and sharp portraits by Siegfried Woldhek, plus a magazine of info about TED projects -- is available in a couple of electronic forms this year, for the first time at a Long Beach TED. First to drop: the TED2011 iPad app. Using some new software, Adobe helped us port the program ...
Posted February 26, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/02/26/get-the-ted2011-program-guide-for-ipad

Registration is open for TED2012

We're thrilled to announce opening of registration for TED2012: Full Spectrum. Under this theme, we are assembling our most diverse group of speakers ever, with just this in common: they have something remarkable to share, and they are able to share it in a remarkable way. We're inviting them to develop "full spectrum" presentations: blizzar...
Posted February 1, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/02/01/registration-is-open-for-ted2012

Behold, 6 real-life cyborgs

“I feel like a cyborg,” Neil Harbisson declares in a fascinating talk from TEDGlobal 2012. Born color-blind, Harbisson lived in a “grayscale world,” he says -- until 2003, when he began working with computer scientist Adam Montandon on an electronic eye that renders color as sound. Always attached to him, the appliance allows Harbisson to...
Posted July 20, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/20/behold-6-real-life-cyborgs

A little bit of creativity: How littleBits fueled electronic experimentation at TEDWomen

Four years ago, TED Senior Fellow Ayah Bdeir founded littleBits “so everyone could unleash their inner inventor — without having to be an engineer.” Since then, many people have used littleBits' electronic building blocks to do just that — and two of them happened to speak at TEDWomen 2015. Want to find out how how guitarist Kaki King cre...
Posted July 7, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/07/07/how-littlebits-fueled-electronic-experimentation-at-tedwomen

TED's iPad App: Q&A with developer Matt Drance

The TED iPad project was inspired by a number of requests coming in from TED fans wishing to see TEDTalks on mobile devices. In the past, the development community has graciously volunteered building various applications on both iPhone and Android platforms. When the iPad came out, we saw an opportunity to try our hand with our first foray i...
Posted October 14, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/10/14/ipad-matt-drance

How is technology changing our experiences? Further reading on the effects of the “digital now”

How long have you been staring at a screen? Chances are this is not the beginning of your day on your mobile device or computer -- and it’s very unlikely to be the end of it. You reading this blog post is only a moment in your digital day, nestled among Facebook updates, Twitter posts, Tumblr reblogs, YouTube videos and, of course, more arti...
Posted October 30, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/10/30/how-is-technology-changing-our-experiences-reading

Data researcher Jean-Baptiste Michel made his first piece of art … and the Whitney Museum acquired it

Jean-Baptiste Michel has sold a small sculpture to the Whitney Museum of American Art. A major museum acquiring a piece—that’s a big moment for any artist. But this sculpture is the very first piece of art Michel ever created. Michel is the data researcher who showed what you can learn using Google’s Ngram Viewer at TEDxBoston in 2011, an...
Posted April 17, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/04/17/jean-baptiste-sells-his-very-first-piece-of-art-to-the-whitney

Puppetry in the age of technology: Brian Henson on creatures, CGI and spontaneity

“Spontaneity is the most delicious part,” says Brian Henson in a master class at TED2014, hosted by Syfy. “There’s something about letting a moment happen. Your best-laid plans cannot exceed what happens spontaneously.” Henson, a master puppeteer and the chair of The Jim Henson Company, says that a love of spontaneity deeply infused his f...
Posted March 17, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/17/puppetry-in-the-age-of-technology-brian-henson-on-creatures-cgi-and-spontaneity

A fantastical interpretation of the Earth's formation

In the opening of Miwa Matreyek’s TED performance, a pair of shadowy hands wave over a plate, and an apple halves itself. From there, goldfish swirl around the plate, before morphing into birds and flying away. For the first minute, you think you are watching video -- an intricate blend of real-life footage and animation. But soon you realize th...
Posted January 19, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/miwa-matreyek-newest-surreal-performance

J.J. Abrams creates an actual mystery box

J.J. Abrams’ talk has perhaps the best title of all time: “The mystery box.” In it, the Star Trek director and Lost co-creator reveals how, years ago, he purchased a box at a magic shop that promised $50 of magic for $15. Only, he has never had the heart to open it because “it represents infinite potential.” In his fast-paced talk, Abrams re...
Posted March 6, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/06/j-j-abrams-creates-an-actual-mystery-box

Snowden selfies: Edward Snowden roams TED2014

Edward Snowden appeared on the TED stage earlier today via a telepresence robot, which he was able to control remotely. So after giving the talk, "Here's how we take back the internet" -- which is now live on TED.com now (after our production team edited it in record time) -- Snowden didn't sign off. He decided to have a little fun and roam ...
Posted March 18, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/snowden-selfies-and-conversations-in-the-halls-edward-snowden-roams-ted2014

Our new "Surprise Me” feature delivers serendipity on demand

Have 10 minutes to spare? Want to spend them on something inspiring? How about something jaw-dropping? Our new "Surprise Me" feature delivers. Just tell us how much time you have (15 minutes? 40?) and what you're in the mood to watch (Something funny? Fascinating? Persuasive?) and we'll generate a custom playlist that matches the moment. ...
Posted April 17, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/04/17/our-new-surprise-me-feature-delivers-serendipity-on-demand

Remembering Harry Marks, co-founder of the TED Conference

Harry Marks' career happened at the intersection of typography, technology and television. His vision has influenced the look of modern video -- picture those fluidly moving, 3D letters that fly over the TV screen to introduce a news broadcast or pop a sports score onto the screen. His influence on this field is absolutely foundational; it's t...
Posted April 26, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/04/26/remembering-harry-marks-co-founder-of-the-ted-conference
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