Week 4: TED

Ted Part 1:
1) TED's website shows the earliest releases about many topics around the world. It allows you to choose what type of videos you watch by certain categories.

2) TED's main purpose is to show very informing videos about certain topics, most of them very interesting. The functionality of their website supports their main purpose because it has many different categories to get you the videos you want to see.

3) The topics that are of most interest to us are "technology", "design", and even "business". These are of most interest to us because we are involved in techonology, design, and business when we build/creat/sell objects.

4) There are many interesting videos on TED.com. Three of the most interesting videos in my opinion, are "Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote", "A Robot That Flies Like a Bird", "Jane McGonigal: Gaming can Make a Better World". All of these seem to interest me the most as a engineer because as a designer these all give ideas on a broad variety of ideas on new projects that you could make money off of (which is the business aspect of it).

5) My video is "Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote".
     Johnny Lee motivated by making certain technology accessable by a greater variety of people
     Wii Remotes cost $40
     Interactive whiteboard = Usually $2000-3000; but with Lee's technology and software, you can make a regular whiteboard into a interactive one for only about $50
     Lee's software is free, and in less than three monthes was downloaded over half a million times
     Get about 80% of the features of a interactive whiteboard for only about 1% of the cost
     His software has multitouch technology, which allows the whiteboard to also be multitouch
     With glasses with 2 infared dots, Lee's technology allows the Wii Remote to pick up your head's location
     Lee's application turns a normal 3-D room on a screen into a whole new thing by having the screen respond to the person's head movements
     This can evolve the world of video games greatly, and EA has already started to try to develop a game with that type of technology
     This is amazing because in less than 5 months, this technology went from being a prototype in Lee's basement to being a major commercial project

Week #3

These are my screenshots from the design and build challenge

Week #2

Three of my Favorite Architects from these ten were Lloyd Wright because he was an American, and most of these architects were European.  Another one of my favorites was Palladio because he did many influential Renaissance pieces. My last favorite architect was Furness because his works were oversized, and I think oversized artworks are actually really cool.

 This is the Kauffman house, which was constructed by Lloyd Wright.

 This is a building that Palladio constructed

 This building was constructed by Furness, as you can see its very oversized.

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