Dance, tiny robots, dance! The best moments from Bruno Maisonnier’s TEDxConcorde robot dance-off — IN GIFS!
Just now, session 1 of TED2013 ended, but not without first introducing the TED audience to a whole mess of neat robot inventions, from a robot butler to a smartphone pet that makes the Tamagotchi seem ancient.
One of the highlights was this clip from Bruno Maisonnier’s TEDxConcorde talk, during which he had his tiny humanoid robots — called Nao — do a synchronized dance routine even the coolest b-boys would envy.
Below, we GIF the best moments from the tiny Naos breaking it down on stage:
We call this one: Air Fiddle:
Still not sure whether these guys should be touring with Daft Punk or featured in Will Smith’s “Welcome to Miami” video:
Some fancy leg work:
And last, but certainly not least — dramatic robot:
![In the free market of individual desire, I negotiate my value every day.Hence, the contemporary man’s anguish. His obsession. “Am I desirable? How much? How many people are going to love me?”How does he respond to this anguish? Well, by hysterically accumulating symbols of desirability [fancy cars, clothes, jewelry]. I call this accumulation, along with others, the seduction capital.It is said — about consumption — that our age is materialistic. But it’s not true.
We accumulate objects in order to communicate with other minds. We do it to make them love us. To seduce them. Nothing is less materialistic or more sentimental than a teenager buying brand new jeans and tearing them at the knees because he wants to impress Jennifer.Consumerism is not materialism. It is rather — engulfed matter sacrificed in the name of the love god, or — rather — in the name of the seduction capital.
— TEDxParis speaker Yann Dall’Aglio on the free market of love. Watch his entire talk here.
Photo by Flickr user @Doug88888.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/376d55c62c44cc20e9b85891b9f35b76/tumblr_mif7cx9ybg1qedf7ko1_500.jpg)
In the free market of individual desire, I negotiate my value every day.
Hence, the contemporary man’s anguish. His obsession. “Am I desirable? How much? How many people are going to love me?”
How does he respond to this anguish? Well, by hysterically accumulating symbols of desirability [fancy cars, clothes, jewelry]. I call this accumulation, along with others, the seduction capital.
It is said — about consumption — that our age is materialistic. But it’s not true.We accumulate objects in order to communicate with other minds. We do it to make them love us. To seduce them.
Nothing is less materialistic or more sentimental than a teenager buying brand new jeans and tearing them at the knees because he wants to impress Jennifer.
Consumerism is not materialism. It is rather — engulfed matter sacrificed in the name of the love god, or — rather — in the name of the seduction capital.
— TEDxParis speaker Yann Dall’Aglio on the free market of love. Watch his entire talk here.
Photo by Flickr user @Doug88888.
Is technology destroying love? Yann Dall’Aglio
“Can love be measured by the number of clicks on your profile?”;
How has the digital age changed love? Yann Dall’Aglio examines what it means to love in today’s society, if it’s in danger, and if it’s even worth saving. (French with English subtitles.) (Filmed at TEDxParis)
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Dispatches from a TEDxYouthDay reporter: Yasmine Tashk on TEDxYouth@Tallinn
This post comes from TEDxYouthDay reporter Yasmine Tashk, who watched TEDxYouth@Tallinn during TEDxYouthDay 2012.
Photo: Yasmine’s big dream for the world
Saturday, I sat in my apartment in Paris, all prepared to watch the TEDxYouthDay event in Tallinn, Estonia. I sat by my desk with my paper and pen on my left, my notes on my right, and my computer and scanner in front of me.
I decided to draw what I heard during the event — live. This was quite a challenge because I had to draw, focus on the talks, scan the drawings, and edit them on my computer — all while watching the speakers talk.
What I expected from the event besides the talks themselves was to gain inspiration: to see other people doing things they believe will change the world, to learn things that will lead me to change the world myself.
Photo: Yasmine’s live drawing of Rene Kukk at TEDxYouth@Tallinn.
