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Science
Krang Rejoices: Artificial Brain Ten Years Away From Reality
11:30AM Rosa Golijan | Scientists are claiming that a functional, artificial brain is only a decade away. This prediction correlates with the above chart, according to which our current computing capabilities limit us to…simulated lizard brains. More »
Random Stuff
Watch Bill Gates Unleash a Live Mosquito Swarm on a Room Full of Important People
11:00AM Matt Buchanan | Watch Bill Gates loose a swarm of mosquitoes on a room full of rich people and brainiacs at his TED talk,just to make a point about malaria: More »
Science
Sixth Sense Technology May Change How We Look at the World Forever
12:20PM Jesus Diaz | I can’t really fully describe Sixth Sense—a system that projects information over the real world, giving you information about it—or its potential in a line. Or at all. You have to, you must watch it: More »
Toys
Siftables Intelligent Blocks Look Like the Future of Interactive UI Design For Kids
8:25AM Adrian Covert | Shown off at the 2009 TED conference (aka Mosquito Madness), these Siftables blocks are location aware, motion sensitive, touch interactive and work with other blocks to take on a variety of functions. More »
Robots
Mad Roboticist Re-Creates Einstein’s Head, This Time With More Feeling
2:00PM Wilson Rothman | David Hanson, the roboticist who brought us the creepy cybernetic substitute son Zeno, is now offering an empathetic smiling Einstein bot for our general horrification. More »
Computers
Negroponte Open Sources OLPC Hardware Design, Invites Copy-Cats
3:00AM Jack Loftus | The embattled OLPC program, already reeling from job cuts and salary decreases, is making one final attempt to stay afloat: Open source everything and hope enough companies copy the design to make it profitable. More »
Software
Watch and Listen To The Geniuses of This Week’s TED Conference On Your iPhone
9:00AM John Mahoney | Are you feeling dumb today? I kind of am, and if I had time, I’d cure that by watching one of the TED Conference’s smarties present what’s beautiful, inspiring and interesting to them. More »
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