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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 |
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Shave
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 walls
James 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
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to Caffeine Media - Morgan Driscoll for making
everything happen.