CodeSushi

Check out this TED talk by Johnny Lee about how he has used the Nintendo Wii controller (just the $40 controller) to create really cheap projection touchscreens and more.



I just found out about TED fairly recently, and I've been watching the videos voraciously ever since. If you're not familiar with TED it's a yearly conference where some of the worlds most innovative and intelligent people give talks from 5 to 40 minutes in length. It's been going on for 20+ years, and has featured household names in science, politics, entertainment and just about any field you can think of. Most amazing are the people who most of us have never heard of, like Johnny Lee, with some incredible new invention, idea, insight or even just a great story.

Here are some good ones

• Alan Russell on regenerative medicine
• Hans Rosling shows some amazing graphical visualizations of global historic data
• Larry Brilliant eradicating the last case of Small Pox, personally

I could go on.. there are very few that I would say are not worth seeing, and there are hundreds out there, with more published all the time. The full podcast feed is here.

I enjoy the weekly I, Cringly podcast. It's almost never longer than 10 minutes, usually shorter.

I am not saying schools will disappear. I AM saying that new modes of instruction will emerge and they will inevitably involve processing power and context. - April 4, 2008

He has some interesting ideas and predictions in the technology arena. He was also the guy behind the amazing PBS series Triumph of the Nerds.