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Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet — exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toy career.
Caleb Chung dreams up toys that interact with children. He’s the inventor of Furby, a talking (and listening) robotic furball that sold some 50 million units in the late ’90s. His newest plaything: Pleo the adorable robot dinosaur.
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Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.
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On the Colbert Report, Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, showed off a new advanced prosthetic arm he’s developed to help people with missing limbs — specifically injured U.S. troops.
This is a short segment of Bill Mollison speaking about Permaculture.
Coco found her passion and lived it.
“I must warn you. We have ways of making you happy.” 
The Happiness Hat is a wearable device that detects if you’re smiling and provides pain feedback if you’re not. An enclosed bend sensor attaches to the cheek and measures smile size, a servo motor moves a metal spike into the head inversely proportional to the degree of smile. Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time. This is the first in a series of Tools for Improved Social Interacting.
The Happiness Hat - created by Lauren McCarthy.
Don Norman: The three ways that good design makes you happy
Author Sam Martin shares photos of a quirky world hobby that’s trending with the XY set: the “manspace.” (They’re custom-built hangouts where a man can claim a bit of his own territory to work, relax, be himself.)
The passion of a social entrepreneur in India has created a solution that will dramatically improve the quality of life for countless people.
Design like you give a damn.
A person can make a difference.
A building can make a difference.
A simple idea that can change the world most profoundly.
Synopsis of the video India: Design Like You Give a Damn
Click here to learn more about Cameron Sinclair and Architecture for Humanity.
Bill Mollison co-founder of Permaculture gives insight into the techniques, practices and benefits of the most important interdisciplinary earth science of our age. To find out more about Bill and his work please visit http://www.tagari.com
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Jun 19, 2010 
