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Buzz Words Approaching: “Game Layer”

By PeteChapman | Published: September 4, 2010
By now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web – building a “social layer” on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the “game layer,” a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape [...]
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Too Good to be True or too True to be Good? Brainwave computing

By PeteChapman | Published: July 29, 2010
Courtesy of TED, Tan Le demonstrates her take on the old Mind/Machine Interface trope. The Emotiv Systems’ EPOC headset uses 16 sensors to scan the brain and some very fancy algorithms to identify neural activity and translate this into control signals. Here are ten questions to keep in mind to the degree that [...]
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District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp’s TEDxVancouver video

By drsquid | Published: February 5, 2010
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a foundation known for its conferences devoted to what it calls ‘ideas worth spreading’. Along with the regular TED event, held in Long Beach CA, and the TED Global conferences (held in different cities each year), there are now independently organized TEDx events happening around the globe. In November 2009 [...]
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