New Yorker Jeff Myers has created a way for dog owners to walk their pooches from the comfort of the couch. A MacBook and an AR drone quadcopter are all you need. Just plot a course on Google Maps and affix the drone to dog’s collar. Watch Myers’ golden retriever happily follow the drone through city…
An amazing sequence of different time lapse animations, panning animations and a slide show of the beautiful night sky in the Tekapo – Mt Cook area. See a 360 degree pan showing the milkyway from a International Dark Sky Reserve, beautiful aurora and images photographed with a small telescope. These animations give an eerie and powerful sense of the movement of the Earth in space.
Thirty-nine million people in the world are blind, and the majority lost their sight due to curable and preventable diseases. But how do you test and treat people who live in remote areas, where expensive, bulky eye equipment is hard to come by? TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous demos a smartphone app and cheap hardware that might help.
As we will never return to ‘business as usual’ 23 international thinkers, government advisors and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain how to establish a moral and just society.
Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you’ve died? Could it … live on?
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