Monday, March 14, 2011

TED Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?

1) The TED Organization

  • nonprofit organiztion that is devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading
  • At first brought people in from three diferent world: engineering, technology, and design.

2) Purpose of website

  • Show all the talks that have been popular or interesting of every TED conference
  • Allows you to email questions and comment your thoughts about certain topics
3) Topics of interest as engineerers
  • ingenious, fascinating, and inspiring
  • These would be topics of interest for engineerers because these would be where you can hear about inventions that could be made and also problems that could be solved with your power
4) Top 3 videos of interest
  • Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow: talks about how to get more bone marrow from a donor and with less pain
  • Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?: looks interesting because it talks about making a laser that shoots misquitos out of the air
  • Theo Jansen: creates new life with plastic and wood that is powered by the wind
5) Getting Involved:
  • There are many education opportunities you can get into this field: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and some sort enivornmental studies
  • experience that you would need is building complex machinal machines and programming targeting systems

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