TED TALKS

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading".

TED was founded in 1984^[1] as a one-off event and the conference was held annually from 1990 in Monterey, California.^[4] TED's early emphasis was largely technology and design, consistent with a Silicon Valley center of gravity. The events are now held in Long Beach and Palm Springs in the U.S. and in Europe and Asia, offering live streaming of the talks. They address an increasingly wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. 

Though i have been watching the TED talks for the past two days,thought of writing about them came to me only today!The first one is about Gaming.Its by Ali Carr-Chellman and is on "Gaming to re-engage boys in learning".
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ali_carr_chellman_gaming_to_re_engage_boys_in_learning.html
 Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.She argues that when compared to girls the boys suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactive disorder bu nearly four times.She displayed many statistics comparing the number of boys and girls as school droupouts,expelled from schools etc and the boys were ahead of the girls in such statistics.


The seond one is on self aware robots-which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.html
The talk was by Hod Lipson.Te robots have been performing a number of tasks like cooking,cleaning,washing and even shopping.He expands the function of robots into various other spheres too.It has four legs around the body which help in its locomotion,eight motors-four on the knees and four on the hips.It has also two tilt centres that tell the machine which way its tilting.These robots are of corse not very useful in themselves,but they might teach us something about how we can build better robots.


The third was by Larry Burns on the future of cars.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/reinventing_the_car.html
Its about sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen -- and pump energy back into the electrical grid when they're idle.In order to obtain something  very affordable,they took he advantage of Moores law  with electronic controls and software and they selected hydrogen as the engine carrier.They had Autonomy drivable with Hy-Wire which is the worlds first drivable fuel cell and the hydrogen and the fuel cell provide the opportunity touse the cars and trucks to generte the power for the grid