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TED: Products From the Future

submitted by blankfist

1 decade 5 years 11 months 4 weeks ago

"About this talk:

The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, "dry" liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole.
About Keith Schacht

Keith Schacht co-founded Inventables, a hothouse for innovation. More recently he's brought us the JobCoin listings board, the Freshwater Venture entrepreneur map, and Facebook's Grow-a-Gift.

Zach Kaplan is the CEO of Inventables, a company that collects and shows off new materials and new ideas (you can see their latest collection on Discovery Channel's new show, "Prototype This!")." [/ted]

And did I mention their voices are annoying?

8 Comments

So, some interesting things in there to be sure... but:
* They are quite average presenters
* They skip over some really amazing stuff with barely a nod to the cool things you could do, the resistance changing ink for one.
* They don't explain things very well, like... how the hell did the 10 foot poll fit in their pocket, even the most basic of explanations would have been good.

Still, very interesting, and *long

This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by spoco2.

But where are the Ron Paul slice it and dice it Ginsu knives?

(alright - last stupid joke)

God I love geeky brainiacs!

Between the geeky brainiacs and the commie hippies we might save the world yet.

We should make that a project: save the world.

Somebody should at least try.

*talks

Adding video to channels (Talks) - requested by gwiz665.

*dead but easy to replace with new Ted Player (just click the link on the video)

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by paul4dirt.

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by vaporlock.

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