Eye phone: How a TED Fellow’s new app could help restore sight to millions
Around 39 million people in the world are affected by blindness — 80% of which could be avoided if people had timely access to diagnos...
How mega-landscaping might reshape the world, according to one TED Fellow
Picture a spillway gate that doesn’t just release water from an overflowing river, but manipulates sediments to create new streams, islands ...
Brave new weird: Inside the funhouse art experiences of TED Fellow Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
Vending machines that sell human DNA. People trapped in jars and blenders. Bottles of perfume that smell like burning books. You have to exp...
The house is a witness: A TED Fellow makes art from the rubble of her homes lost to war
Artist Zena el Khalil doesn’t have the family home she remembers from childhood. Her mother’s house in Lebanon was destroyed in ...
10 things you need to know about tapirs (psst: there’s a baby tapir named TED)
If you want to call someone a “jackass” in Brazil, you call them a “tapir.” These large, forest-dwelling mammals look a bit like...
A rugged, mobile wifi device brings the web to schools in Africa and beyond, thanks to this TED Fellow
BRCK is best described as a “backup generator for the internet.” When it was announced, the idea of a rugged, rechargeable, mobi...
Ordinary people in an extraordinary moment: A TED Fellow shoot portraits of the men + women caught up in revolution in Ukraine
When Anastasia Taylor-Lind found herself in Kiev at the height of violence during Ukraine’s Independence Square protests, the document...
Art that floats: A TED Fellow plans an immersive experience on a boat
Constance Hockaday makes large-scale installations on open water. Identifying as a Chilean-American queer artist, Hockaday creates spaces th...
What’s it like to live with locked-in syndrome? One family’s experience
Three years ago, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana suffered a rare brain stem stroke that left him fully conscious, yet his entire body paralyzed. It’s a ...