One of the coolest conferences that happens every year has just wrapped up as you read this post. It’s the TED conference. This eclectic gathering of the world’s leading minds presenting “Ideas worth spreading”–often turn out the most innovative and thought provoking approaches to common problems of our world and culture today. The panelists are wide and varied (this year was no exception). You can always count on brilliance coming out. We encourage you to visit the site, and in the days to come, we will post a comment follow-up for the TED YouTube videos that will be released. Promise, at least one will be worth your time =)

Dimensional Idea Capture

“We’ve taken all the topics that have come up in all the TEDTalks from the past few years on the website, and by moving your hand above this box you’ll be able to look see the ideas that people are writing about TED as they’re happening from the Twitter feed. You can control the movement and capture ideas in the aerogel as they’re coming back.” — Gilad Lotan

Software-Controlled Art

“This is a piece by the video and new-media artist Lincoln Schatz. It’s a generative portrait. We created this especially for the space here. It started Monday; we plugged it in, and that’s its ‘born-on date.’ That’s when it started collecting memories. … The software makes all the decisions about what it wants to keep and what it wants to discard. It’s a portrait, but the artist surrenders control to the software.” — Nell Taylor