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Caleb Chung plays with Pleo

Creativity, Design, Inspiration, Invention, TED Lectures, Video

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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Ideas that shape the future - Dean Kamen

Education, Ideas, Invention, Science, Technology, Video

“We get what we celebrate and we are celebrating the wrong things.” - Dean Kamen.


Dean Kamen gives a talk at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Segway inventor Dean Kamen discusses the prosthetic arm his company invented for recent war veterans who had lost limbs.

Dean Kamen also describes three other life-changing heartfelt projects his company has been working on.

Do yourself a favor, take the time to watch all three videos of this talk.

It will touch you and move you.

Discovering what one person has done with technology will touch you and move you.

But the project he describes at the end will inspire you.

NOTE: The YouTube videos only show a shortened version of his talk. The ending of his talk is chopped off. The ending is worth watching.

You can view the complete talk as:

You can also read the complete talk by downloading the transcript in PDF format.

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