Our last salon was May 1 and here are some highlights from that event. Stay tuned for new details for the fall!
Urban RX from Bret Primack on Vimeo.
IDEAS WORTH SHARING
Salons
TED Talks HD
- TED: Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass? - Sergey Brin (2013)It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up. […]
- TED: Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard! - Jay Silver (2013)Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects. […]
- TED: Liu Bolin: The invisible man - Liu Bolin (2013)Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called “The Invisible Man” because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center — and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background. […]