Google TechTalks on Google Videos
I’ve been watching a lot of Google TechTalks on Google Videos lately.
They bring in people from various industries to talk about trends and innovations, etc.
These are a couple that I particularly enjoyed.
Human Computation - This is a talk about using humans cycles to perform computation. The basic premise is that there are certain things that computers cannot do and that most humans can. The trick is to get people who are wasting part of the billions of hours a year spent playing on solitaire to want help with something useful.
Wave Energy - Electricity can be generated by oceanic waves. I thought this was a green-tinted fantasy, but it actually very much a reality. Basically you get a giant worm. Put it in the ocean and restrict it’s wave-induced wiggling to generate electricity.