Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Technology and a Six Sence

Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

See it for yourself:

Thursday, February 19, 2009

High School Venezuelan Musicians

They broadcasted 13 days ago at TED2009 via satellite from Caracas.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra (Sinfónica Juvenil Teresa Carreño) is the national high school age youth orchestra of El Sistema, Venezuela's groundbreaking, life-changing musical education program. To put this ensemble's musicianship in context, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela is the next step for many of these young musicians.