In a TED talk from March 2008 Robert Ballard paints the argument for increased exploration of the oceans here on planet Earth. 75% of the planet is covered in water, but we have mapped and explored a surprisingly small amount of it. He makes the point that we have maps of Venus and Mars but [...]

Not to be outdone by the current rage surrounding the homemade Wii remote interactive white board comes a homemade multi-touch surface. A simple webcam, a box, a piece of glass and tracing paper allows you to interact with your Windows machine through a multi-touch interface. These interfaces are being developed by a number of companies, [...]

An impressive collection of original documents has been placed online by the National Archives. It boasts a fancy flash based interface that allows interaction and navigation of the documents. Searching and connecting documents is done via tags. On a brief first look it’s pretty, but I found it slow to navigate through the documents — [...]

I’d heard about this DIY interactive whiteboard project before, but hadn’t actually seen it in action. He used a Wii remote and a home made IR pen, and demonstrates drawing, multi-touch surface interactions, and amazing head-sensing safety glasses. After watching this video I think every school should pool the change they find in the halls [...]

I recently found 20 minutes to sit down and watch a TED Talk with Alan Kay, titled ‘A powerful idea about teaching ideas’. It is a talk given by Alan in March 2007, but just found its way online this March. I haven’t watched nearly enough content provided by TED, and plan to watch most [...]