Very cool Wii remotes hacks

[Hominid]

http://www.ted.com/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html

[meekon5]

This guy is very good (a bit of an old video, it's been around a while), but TED do have a couple of really interesting guys working from the same angle of enabling research by using inexpensive tools.

Nice video though Dude.

I still am fascinated by the TED business  model. the majority of the audience pay for their seats (thats about $1000), the rest are presenters who get the opeertunity to listen to the other presenters. TED then make all (or most) of the videos available after a set time on the web. People still pay the $1000 for a seat just to be in on the cutting edge innovation.

[Hominid]

No wonder they clap the way they do...   

[Hominid]

This guy is very good (a bit of an old video, it's been around a while), but TED do have a couple of really interesting guys working from the same angle of enabling research by using inexpensive tools.

Nice video though Dude.

I still am fascinated by the TED business  model. the majority of the audience pay for their seats (thats about $1000), the rest are presenters who get the opeertunity to listen to the other presenters. TED then make all (or most) of the videos available after a set time on the web. People still pay the $1000 for a seat just to be in on the cutting edge innovation.

And... just for my own due diligence, how do you know this to be fact? I have scientist friends ...

[meekon5]

According to scobleizer I got the price wrong (It's $6000 according to scobleizer)

"So, what is the elephant? That TED costs $6,000 and is hard to get into (next year?s TED is already sold out, for instance)."

http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/14/the-elephants-in-the-room-at-ted/

also:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/148/how-ted-became-the-new-harvard.html?page=0%2C2

[meekon5]

TED is one of my favourite wastes of time at work.

[Hominid]

I hate how important and effective technologies are always traded for cash... It keeps us devolved in my opinion. I guess that makes me an idealist, but I can always hope.

Opinions?

[milnie]

i think the people with the know-how to come up with this sort of stuff must always have an eye on getting paid for it in some way. you may release the software as freeware for the greater good but their website and apps are so full off advert.
H, your posting about that media viewer which was really cool has now been snapped up by microsoft, and i worry that the kind of thinking that lead the guys to create it will be confined working at the large company that innovation will be stifled.

[meekon5]

H, your posting about that media viewer which was really cool has now been snapped up by microsoft, and i worry that the kind of thinking that lead the guys to create it will be confined working at the large company that innovation will be stifled.

Micro$ofts business model has always been to buy innovation, it's cheaper than trying to think of new things themselves. I believe the book Micro$erfs is very close to the corporate environment of the big M$.

[Hominid]

Money makes the world go round. Greed keeps it firmly planted in capitalism.