|  | Gadgetoff 2007 
								A brief video of some 
								of the things that make Gadgetoff unique. 
								
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								|  | Tony Tether 
								- Director of DARPA 
								Tony describes 
								various DARPA projects and highlights the 
								life-changing application of using mind control 
								with advanced artificial limbs.  
								
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								|  | Siddharth Chhatpar - Think-A-Move 
								Sid explains the use of 
								ear-canal based speech recognition and 
								tongue-based speech recognition technology to 
								control robots and other equipment in 
								challenging environments like battlefields and 
								hospitals.   
								
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								Think-A-Move | 
							
								|  | Adam Bly - Seed 
								Media 
								Adam introduces a number of 
								interesting videos that detail the latest 
								advancements in the understanding of the brain. 
								
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								|  | Marvin Minsky - 
								MIT, Artificial Intelligence 
								Marvin touches on topics 
								ranging from backing up the human brain to the 
								gadgets in his pocket to his latest theory of 
								Artificial Intelligence. 
								
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								|  | Brian Scasselati - Yale, Human/Robot Interaction 
								Brian explains his research involving humans and 
								robots and the philosophical and learning 
								implications that emerge from their 
								interactions. 
								
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								|  | Jessica Banks - MIT, 
								Human Perception 
								People think that they 
								perceive reality just as it is. Jessica shows 
								that this isn't always the case and she shows 
								how your brain makes things up. 
								
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								|  | Jay Cohen - Undersecretary Homeland Security 
								Science & Technology 
								Rear Admiral Jay Cohen talks about the courage needed for 
								innovation. He demonstrates (making us all a 
								little sick) the "Dazzler" - a prototype of 
								non-lethal force. 
								
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								|  | Steve Silverman - 
								Advanced Scientific Concepts Cameras 
								take pictures of light, so what makes Steve's 
								cameras so special? His cameras are so fast they 
								can actually photograph light moving over 
								objects. He can even construct 3D images from a 
								single point. 
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								Advanced Scientific Concepts | 
							
								|  | Peter Menzel - Photography 
								Peter takes us on a photographic tour of the 
								world and a look at what various families eat 
								each day. He also goes on a side trip looking 
								for and sampling yummy, tasty insects. 
								
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								Gigapan of Gadgetoff | 
							
								|  | Gary 
								Settles - Penn State 
								Gary takes the most remarkable Schlieren 
								photographs and movies in the world. He uses his 
								refined techniques to understand everything from 
								how a dog's nose sniffs to airplane shockwaves 
								to terrorist's explosives. 
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								the video | 
							
								|  | Paul Holman A.K.A.
								Pablos The 
								Hacker 
								Is it safe? Not if Pablos is around! Pablos 
								shows how easy it is, with the right hardware, 
								software and skills, to crack WiFi. 
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								the video 
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								|  | Juan Enriquez - Biotechonomy 
								Juan runs through new bio-technology like searching exhalations for DNA signatures of illness, 
								operating on organs outside of the body and programmable cells to solve the worlds energy 
								needs. 
								
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								|  | Red Whittaker - CMU, Urban Challenge 
								The father of vehicular robotics explains the 
								DARPA Urban Challenge, how to crawl through 
								caves and what his robot for exploring the moon 
								might look like. 
								
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								|  | Aaron Edsinger - Meka Robotics, Hee3 
								Aaron shows how his love of making art-robots 
								led him to his greatest creation - Domo, a 
								humanoid robot that adapts to objects and 
								naturally interacts. 
								
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								|  | John 
								Mahoney - Popular Science 
								John shows the latest gadgets from Popular 
								Science magazine like build-your-own brewery, video projector, game table and WiFi in a light fixture. 
								
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								|  | Yossi Vardi - 
								Center for Local Warming 
								Perhaps local warming is the root cause of 
								global warming, perhaps not. Yossi goes on a 
								quest to stop this pernicious ill that is affecting 
								our society, and our, um, er, manly bits. 
								
								Watch Video Part 1 | 
								Watch Video Part 2 |
								Shave 
								Everywhere | 
							
								|  | Stacey Artandi - SheZoom 
								Stacey introduces SheZoom, her website for women 
								by showing various inventions by women over the 
								years and how men and women perceive technology 
								differently. 
								
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								|  | Robert Sabuda & Matthew Reinhart 
								Sabuda & Reinhart make gorgeous and intelligent 
								popup books that seem to defy the laws of 
								physics. They talk about the low-tech approach 
								they use to get their stunning results. 
								
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								|  | Chuck Hoberman 
								Nothing in Chuck's world is at is seems - 
								everything he designs, from spheres to toys to 
								architecture to sculpture transforms in 
								beautiful and stunning ways. 
								
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								|  | Saul Griffith & Colin Bulthaup - Squid Labs, Potenco 
								Polymath and recent MacArthur Fellow Saul 
								Griffith takes us on a wild high speed canoe 
								ride, shows self replicating DNA-like building 
								blocks and the improper way to protect yourself 
								from a 125 mph shot-put on the end of a piece of 
								string.  
								
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								|  | Shay David - Kaltura 
								Shay introduces Kaltura - an exciting new 
								online, open source, collaborative, creative 
								site for editing video.  
								
								Watch the video | Kaltura | 
							
								|  | Dan Nachbar - Skyacht Aircraft 
								It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's a Skyacht! 
								Dan creates the ultimate personal aircraft - a 
								highly maneuverable hot air balloon with a shape 
								like a blimp. 
								
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								|  | Windell Oskay - CandyFab 4000 
								Windell has a sweet tooth, and more 
								impressively, a sweet CNC homebuilt candy maker. 
								The CandyFab 4000 uses a heat gun, motorized 
								jack and pounds of sugar to create everything 
								from detailed geometric shapes to a 12 pound 
								chain. 
								
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								|  | Howard Morgan - Idealab 
								Idealab has been busy thinking up new products 
								and cofounder Howard Morgan shows us the new 
								Aptera Motors 3 wheel car, steered mirrors 
								helping generate solar power and the Desktop 
								Factory inexpensive 3d printer. 
								
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								|  | Luke Williams - Frog Design 
								Interfaces have become non-intuitive and Luke 
								shows a completely different way to create a 
								fast, easy to understand paradigm for watching 
								television. 
								
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								|  | Stephen Tomlin - Chumby 
								The Chumby is one of the coolest little gadgets 
								we've seen in a while and Steve shows just a few 
								of the features of this soft, huggable, wireless 
								Flash player with a touch screen and audio. 
								
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								|  | Jeff Han - Perceptive Pixel 
								People can't get their hands off of Jeff Han, or 
								to be more precise, his fascinating, large, 
								multi-touch screen that changes the way people 
								interact with computers. 
								
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								|  | Colin Angle & Helen Greiner - iRobot 
								Colin and Helen, founders of iRobot, show their latest creations - a remote control 
								surveillance robot and a rain gutter cleaner. 
								
								Watch the video | iRobot | 
							
								|  | Natalie Jerimijenko - Environmental Health Clinic 
								Natalie Jerimijenko, a prominent experimental 
								visual artist, talks about her latest project - 
								The Environmental Health Clinic.  
								
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								|  | Josh Klein - Crow Vending Machine 
								Change is for the birds. Josh takes this 
								idea literally and trains crows to collect 
								coins. Don't laugh just yet, over $200 million 
								in coins are lost each year in America alone. 
								Okay, laugh yourself silly all the way to the 
								bank. 
								
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								|  | Guy Vardi - Dangerous Clock Smuggler 
								Sometimes the coolest creations don't make it to 
								Gadgetoff for various reasons. Guy explains what 
								US Customs does to protect the country from his 
								Bicycle Clock. 
								
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								|  | Barb Stuckey - Mattson 
								Barb explains how the process of tasting food 
								involves all 5 senses. She has the audience 
								pinch their noses to vividly demonstrate her 
								point. 
								
								Watch the video | Mattson | 
							
								|  | John Abele 
								John and his brothers embarked on a quest to 
								find their father's lost submarine from World 
								War II. After a huge amount of research and 
								searching the ocean floor, John shows what he found. 
								Watch Video Part 1 | Watch Video Part 2 | 
							
								|  | Rick Smolan 
								Rick talks about his new project to document a 
								single day all around the world using a hundred 
								professional photographers. 
								
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								|  | Paul Steinhardt - 
								Princeton 
								Did the universe emerge from a big bang or from 
								a cyclic collision of two parallel universes? 
								Paul hints that the later is more likely in his 
								rapid summation of cosmic theories. 
								
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								|  | Will Wright - 
								Electronic Arts/Maxis 
								Will Wright, creator of the Sims, demonstrates his most ambitious 
								video game ever - Spore - a massive multiplayer 
								game using a cross between intelligent-design 
								and evolution to dominate the universe. 
								
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								|  | Aubrey de Grey - 
								Methuselah Foundation 
								Growing old is something that Aubrey is trying 
								to do away with. He touches on the 
								philosophical and cultural impediments to 
								focusing on and halting aging. 
								
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								|  | Marc Hodosh - 
								Genomics XPrize 
								The Genomics XPrize's quest to 
								quickly and cost effectively sequence individual 
								human's genomes will have a profound impact on 
								the future of healthcare and longevity. 
								
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								|  | Martin Eberhard - Tesla Motors 
								Creating a new, high-speed electric car requires 
								breaking a few eggs, actually, a few cars. 
								Martin explains the testing required for 
								building his amazing driving machines. 
								
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								|  | Joy Hirsch - 
								Columbia University 
								Joy Hirsch, a leading FMRI (Functional Magnetic 
								Resonance Imaging) researcher, takes a look into 
								Dan Dubno's brain to see what it looks like when 
								he thinks about Gadgetoff.  
								
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								|  | Sandy Pentland - Legatum Foundation 
								Sandy and the Legatum Foundation, using the MIT 
								network, are venturing (or venture capitaling) 
								into difficult third world markets and they are 
								finding good technology to locally invest in.  
								
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								|  | Phil Torrone - 
								Make Magazine, Adafruit Laser 
								Phil talks about the success of their 
								laser-etching business that he and Limor started 
								at last year's Gadgetoff. 
								
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								|  | Limor Fried - Adafruit 
								Limor is the master of "Design Noir" - What 
								people really want out of technology. She 
								shows her open source RF Jammer - Wave Bubble 
								and a high powered device for turning all 
								televisions off up to 100' away. 
								
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								|  | Michael Winter - 
								Stupid Fun Club 
								Michael takes on a tour de force of the 
								intensely creative world of 
								human/machine/machine interaction done by 
								himself and his business partner Will Wright. 
								Don't miss the robot that has fallen and can't 
								get up. 
								
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								|  | James Powderly & 
								Evan Roth - Graffiti Research Labs 
								What happens when you take a high-powered 
								projector, a laser, a camera, a computer and a 
								bicycle and add them together? You get "LaserTag", 
								a neat way of projecting graffiti onto wallsJames also explains "Fameo" - grades for an 
								internet design course based on internet 
								popularity.
 
								
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						Special thanks to WarrenZ Productions - Steve Zink & 
						Joe Williams for all of their work editing the videos 
						and 
						to Caffeine Media - Morgan Driscoll for making 
						everything happen.