opinionated observations » Post Tag: Ted http://o2.mindactive.com/bLog ruthlessly observing the ad industry and design theorists. Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:55:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= A robot that flies like a bird http://o2.mindactive.com/bLog/2011/08/02/a-robot-that-flies-like-a-bird/ http://o2.mindactive.com/bLog/2011/08/02/a-robot-that-flies-like-a-bird/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:11:09 +0000 Dru http://o2.mindactive.com/bLog/?p=673 Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

is a daily podcast of the best talks and performances from the Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, on design, on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for , Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts.


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