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Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York’s MOMA, wants to spread an appreciation of design, in all shapes and forms — and to ...
Designer Ettore Sottsass died yesterday, at 90. The leader of a group of Italian designers who called themselves Memphis, he helped spark th...
Legendary designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides behind him — spends 17 minutes reaching for the very roots of the que...
Biologist Robert Full shares his fascination with spiny cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed across loose mesh and gecko ...
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase investigates the ways we interact with technology — a quest that has led him from the villages of Ugand...
Inventor Dean Kamen gives a 5-minute talk about the extraordinary prosthetic arm he’s developing at the request of the US Department of Defe...
The information spread a few months ago: director Steven Spielberg is planning a movie (a theatrical documentary) about pioneering green arc...
Not all inventions need to be grandiose, complex things, Amy Smith said at TED2006: sometimes they can be simple and smart ideas that just h...
Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web — so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize...