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 ~1 hr Zachary Liberman is a performing Artist in NY who specializes in gesture recognition.
 ~7min Tom Kelley, general manager at IDEO talks about radical collaboration and their use of design-thinking.
 ~4 min Johnny Chung Lee, a student in the HCII lab at CMU, uses reflective tape and some LED lights in combination with a wii remote control to enable users to use their finger gestures as an computer input. The combination enables interaction as seen in the movie Minority Report.
 ~1h 30min Randy Pausch, professor at CMU, shares his life experiences and lessons in an inspirational and moving lecture. "Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things."
-Randy Pausch
 ~10 min John Barratt, CEO of Teague discusses the process for designing the interior of the Boeing 777 for the Paris Air Show.
 ~5 min In this sketchcast, Philipp Lessen talks about how he automated the process of tagging a huge database of Comic Book covers using both Google & Yahoo APIs.
 ~7 min Chef Grant Achatz, of Alinea Restaurant in Chicago, is taking the experience of eating to a new level integrating technology and creativity.
 ~5 min Bruce Sterling, notorious design critic, discusses hostile design and provides an AWESOME antidote regarding humanizing a particle accelerator.
 ~5 min Jeff Han, the most prominent man in the field of multi-touch technology, discusses the benefits of touch screen displays. He even argues (in reference to the movie Minority Report) that touch screens are the most effective means for preforming tasks in virtual 3D space.
 ~2 min James Dyson, famous for his no-loss-of-suction-vaccuumes, has now developed a washroom hand dryer promissing to dry hands in 12 seconds, uses 80% less energy, and removes 99.9% of bacteria from the air being blown on the hands.
 ~4 min Solomon E. Asch, world-renowned psychologist carried out experiments which reveal the power of social pressure and also inspired the work of Stanley Milgram.
 ~5 min Volker Blanz & Thomas Vetter of MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany present A Mophable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces. Presented at SIGGRAPH 1999.
 ~20 min Jeff Hawkins, known for his work in the field of PDAs such as the Palm and Treo, is now pioneering new theories in regards to brain science.
 ~6 min A tribute to Carl Sagan, an American astronomer and astrobiologist, this amazing video is inspired by an excerpt from his book Pale Blue Dot. It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan
 ~3 min The Falkirk Wheel is an incredible boat lift named after the nearby town of Falkirk, Scotland and transfers boats between two canals with a difference in height of 8 stories.
 ~3 min Jack Black provides a unique tutorial on how to structure stories as part of Acceptable TVs video submission guide.
 ~1 min Yahoo employees Michael Holzer, Brian Kobashikawa and Karl Adam created a physical status changer for Yahoo Messenger as part of the Yahoo Hack Day.
Microsoft Surface
 ~2 min Students at University of Melbourne, Australia have developed a system to allow non-co-located people to work out together using GPS and wireless communication technologies.
 ~3 min Dean Kamen shares a bit about the inspiration for developing his latest achievement, a robotic prosthetic arm with 14 degrees of freedom.
 ~1 min Brand New School for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners of San Francisco, have created an interactive billboard to be displayed as part of the Adobe CS3 product launch.
 ~4 min Hektor, a portable computer controlled spray painting device, developed in 2002 by Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke. The device uses two motors and is able to reproduce images fed to it through Adobe Illustrator using an open-source scripting plugin called Scriptographer.
Nioz-Davi and Daisuke Yamamoto put together a team of artists to participate in a series of video projects creating a continuous stream of artwork evolving from one into another. Our focus is on the process of making art, not the end result.
- The Rinpa Eshidan
 ~51 min Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, speaks at Google. Luis talks about his research on utilizing the abilities of humans to solve problems which are difficult for computers by creating games for people to play. Over 9 Billion human hours of solitaire were played in 2003. It took 7 million human hours to build the entire Empire State Building. It turns out it took 20 million human hours to build the entire Panama canal. I want to show how we can make good use of these wasted human cycles and that is what I mean by human computation.
-Luis von Ahn
 ~5 min Nuno Vasconcelos, Professor at USCD, explains his research on Supervised Multi-class Labeling and how training computers to visually identify objects is extremely similar to that of teaching a human.  ~29 min Munjal Shah, CEO of Riya, talks with Robert Scoble about how his company which heavily focused on developing face recognition software and is now developing the worlds best visual search engine Like.com. Munjal explains how Contextual Recognition works and why they decided to redirect the attention of their large pool of PhD employees to online shopping.
 ~1 hr Stan Lee of Marvel Comics sits down with Jim Lee, arguably the greatest comic book artist ever, in this amazing 7 part series: Comic Book Greats. Jim Lee talks about his drawing process, image composition, and his inspiration.
 ~3 min Intel shares its vision for the future of the ultra-mobile computing which combines mobile phone, GPS, music, and workstation functionality along with voice recognition.
 ~7 min Designers at Bungie Studios, makers of the game Halo, discuss the trials and tribulations that go into designing fun and engaging multiplayer maps that are as exciting after playing 100, 200, and even 1000 times.
 ~3 min William Lam leads a group of students from the University of Waterloo which have designed an interactive touch-screen mirror. It displays weather, news, and is even voice activated.
 ~3 min Paul Bourke, a student at the University of Western Australia, has combined a Wiimote, a MacBook Pro, and Dome screen to test if the Nintendo Wii could provide low cost wireless of interacting within immersive environments.
 ~3 min Sebastian Schmieg, a student at student at Merz Akademie, has created a new game-like interactive experiment called Roy Block using a vertically tangible interface.
Syd Mead, industrial designer and visual futurist, has worked at both Ford and US Steel before starting his own company. Syd is renowned for his work in movies such as Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, Short Circuit, and many more. People are in the image business, and that includes practiclly the entire structure of commercial business. At some point in time, where there is packaging... designing a car, designing a hat, or a pair of shoes, or a motorcycle... somewhere it has to start as an image. Because the people who don't know how to draw, have to agree... that is what they are going to make.
-Syd Mead  ~7 Min Dances With Films co-founder, Leslee Scallon interviews Visual Futurist, Syd Mead, and Director, Joaquin Montalvan at the Premiere of Visual Futurist  ~39 min Syd Mead sits down in an interview to discuss his life experiences, design philosophies, and provides insight into the creative inspiration for his work.
 ~4 min Visual designer Marc Coleran displays his work from movies such as The Island, Alien vs. Predator, and The Bourne Identity.  ~3 min Noel Rubin, graphic artist, showcases many of his interface designs which have landed in movies such as Star Wars Episode I. I take graphical interface design extremely seriously. A good designer balances form with function. As with all projects, real or fictional, I try to justify everything used in a design. No techno-grunge allowed. Every pixel has a purpose as desktop real-estate is very expensive these days. Albeit, some designs for movies are simply eye candy.
- Noel Rubin
 ~2 min viZoo demonstrates Cheoptics360, a volumetric display device able to show 3D objects and video at any angle.  ~5 min Researchers from the University of Toronto use a 3D volumetric display to create a set of finger gestures to interact with objects in a 3D space.
 ~12 min In this video, Rob Bryanton uses nice visual aids to illustrate each of the ten dimensions and how each one is related to the others.
 ~48 min In this documentary Sir Martin Rees, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, asks the questions: Are we alone? Why are we here? Are we real? We do know that the laws governing our natural world are simple. We can write them down in simple equations. We can program computers to simulate them. And from great simplicity, we derive immense complexity.
Sir Martin Rees  ~18 min Sir Martin Rees speaks at TED in regards to the significance of human life at this pivotal moment in time. With the new capability for humans to materially change themselves and the planet, Rees asks the scientific community to continuously consider the moral implications of their research.
 ~3 min Presented at Photo Expo 2006, this reel of showcases photos taken during the year by George Lange as well as a flipbook style compiled at the end of each photo shoot.  ~4 min Photo slide show shown at RISD during a lecture by George Lange. Compiled and edited in one night with iPhoto.
 ~34 min Chip Heath, a business professor at Stanford University, stresses the importance of simplicity to effectively convey ideas. He is the co-author of Made to Stick.
 ~7 min Dave Gray, founder and CEO of XPLANE, discusses creativity in the work place in an interview with Alex Osterwalder. |
 ~2 min Folding at Home, a distributed computing effort out of Stanford University, is harnessing the amazing processing power of the Sony PS3 game console to help scientists study misfolding proteins which may lead to cures for diseases including cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cystic fibrosis.
 ~1 min Le Synapse, designed and developed by Groupe 3D in France was shown at Cebit 2007. People can interact with the touchscreen device without touching it.
 ~6 min Russ Burtner, a Product Designer at Microsofts Center of Information Work demonstrates DigiDesk, a combination touch-table with heads up display.  ~3 min Tom Gruver of Microsoft gives a tour of the Center for Information Work, an office which showcases the company's vision for 5-7 years into the future.
~2 min Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.
- Rodney Mullen
Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com shares the vision, drive, and effectiveness of focusing on customer experience. We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
-Jeff Bezos ~57 min Jeff Bezos speaks at the University of Washington Nov. 2002 ~56 min Jeff Bezos speaks at the University of Pennsylvania along with David Dyer, president and CEO of Lands End on Feb 8, 2000.
 ~49 min Phil Harrison talks about Sony's vision for Game 3.0 introducing Home for PS3 as well as showcases a fantastic new game called Little Big Planet which allows players to play and create their own levels and share them with the community. A must see.  ~1 hr 12 min Shigeru Miyamoto shares Nintendo's vision and aim at broadening the gamer demographic. Including how he ranks games using the wife-o-meter.
 ~4 min Lemur is a multi-touch controller for audio and video applications. This setup uses Lemur to control Processing, a real time visualization tool.
 ~54 min Cliff Nass, Professor of Communication at Stanford, speaks at the University of Washington. In this brilliant and entertaining lecture, Cliff shows how social theories which apply to human-to-human apply equally to human-to-computer interactions.
 ~4 min Julian Beever, renowned 3D sidewalk chalk artist creates yet another amazing piece of work in this video.
 ~45 min Ryan Honey and Orion Tait of Buck Design and Motion Graphics, showcases 5 projects and provides a behind the scenes glimpse at the production process. Buck has completed projects for g4, MTV Movie Awards, Nike Battlegrounds, Cingular Wireless, and EA Games 007.
 ~38 min Ben Fry, a MIT legend in data visualization, shares his latest work in Computational Information Design.
 ~18 min MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld shares a convincing view on how personal fabrication labs are the next step after the digital revolution. The killer |
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