The future of gadgets isn't necessarily the homogeneous iPhone. With open source hardware and personal manufacturing, we can all have custom gadgets someday. At Ignite Toronto Mark Argo talks about what we can learn from history as we try to...
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22 September 2009: Mark Argo on Adapting Technology
15 September 2009: Matthias Shapiro on Effective Information Visualization
Visualizations can be used to make sense of massive amounts of data. As Matthias Shapiro says visualizations turn information into understanding. Designers use color, size, location, time, and networks to convey a message. Matthias Shapiro shares his visualizations at Designer...
9 September 2009: Mehal Shah on How to Win at Scrabble
Scrabble isn't a game of who can get the best 6 letter words. It's a game of points and squeezing 2 letter terms into corners. Mehal Shah takes us through clean and sometimes dirty ways to win at Scrabble. Some...
1 September 2009: A.L. Venable on Why To Ride The Bus
Buses are a window into your city. Everybody rides the bus and it provides the rider with the ultimate people-watching opportunity. In 20 slides A.L proclaims her love of the bus. This talk was filmed at Ignite Portland....
25 August 2009: Jeff Veen: Great Designers Steal
Good designers copy. Great designers steal. Jeff Veen, well-known for his design work on MeasureMap, Google Analytics, Wikirank and Typekit, lays out a strong argument for why iPhone imitators are the cargo cults of the digital era. The people...
18 August 2009: Yoram Bauman on Mankiw's 10 Principles of Economics
In this week's Ignite Show Yoram Bauman, a standup economist, deconstructs Greg Mankiw's 10 Principles of Economics. In short order Yoram explains away tradeoffs, incentives, margins and markets. They become more common concepts of choices, people, governments, and stupidity (and...
11 August 2009: Anthony Citrano on Money Remixed, #26
The US economy is going off a cliff and financial practices are being, ahem, re-evaluated. Anthony Citrano takes this thinking a step further and ponders what would happen if the US dollar disappeared. He suggests that corporations will end up...
4 August 2009: Dr. Will Noel on Restoring the Archimdes Palimpsest
In 1906 a researcher realized that in the 13th century a book of Archimedes' treatises had been over-written with prayers. Almost a century later the original manuscript was recovered through the high-tech efforts of Dr. Will Noel. As described on...
29 July 2009: Heather Knight on Social Robots
Robots have come a long way. They walk and they talk . They also have advantages over humans: they are stronger, they have a computer for a brain. This makes them well-suited for many tasks -- especially space travel. We...
23 July 2009: Alexis Bauer on How to Work a Crowd
Whenever there's a crowd (like at a live Ignite event) you always have the opportunity to meet a new friend, co-worker, or potential date. However, meeting people, meeting a lot of people at a busy event is a skilled that...
14 July 2009: Greg Elin on Hackers in Washington, Ep 22
The Obama Administration has taken broad steps to open up government. It's created Twitter accounts, launched data portals, and released spending dashboards. Even with these steps Washington D.C. can be a foreign place to geeks. Greg Elin is a hacker...
7 July 2009: Zoe Keating on Should you join a rock band?
Cellist Zoe Keating used to be in tech before taking on the "glamorous" life of a touring musician. In this week's Ignite Show Episode, she talks about the pizza, the long bus rides, odd work hours and making a living...
30 June 2009: Tim Ferriss on The Practicality of Pessimism: Stoicism as a Productivity System. Ep 20
Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, talks about a different type of productivity technique, one based on Stoicism. Tim asks that you ponder this: could defining your fears be more important than defining your goals? This talk was...
23 June 2009: Scott Berkun on Why and How to Speak (at Ignite)
Scott Berkun is a great public speaker. He travels the country speaking on project management, innovation, design and lately on how to speak. As an offshoot in his research on his upcoming book he put together this Ignite talk on...
16 June 2009: Tim Hwang on Memes and Social Media
Tim Hwang, the founder of ROFLCon and a researcher at the Harvard Berkman center. He's been focusing on the spread of internet memes like xzibit and three-wolf moon. This Ignite talk was filmed at Ignite NYC IV. You can see...
9 June 2009: Bill Gurstelle On The Art of Living Dangerously
To keep smart, your brain needs to feel useful. It needs danger to challenge it. In this week's Ignite Show episode, Bill Gurstelle of Make Magazine elaborates on this topic in, "The Art of Living Dangerously". Bill knows about danger....
2 June 2009: Veronica Belmont on Making Your Business a Meme
Meme's are ideas that spread far and wide. Often today businesses that venture onto the web aren't just looking to have a presence. They are looking to go viral, to have their business become a meme. In this week's Ignite...
26 May 2009: Hillel Cooperman on the Lego Underground
Legos are some of the best toys ever made and there's a lot more to them now Hillel Cooperman of the Jackson Fish Market takes us on his family's journey into the Underground World of Lego in this week's Ignite...
19 May 2009: Michael Galpert on Detecting Photoshopped Images
That celebrity in a bikini? Duplicate people in a crowd? These aren't real. Those are the work of Photoshop or Aviary. Michael Galpert shows us how to detect these fake images. For more reading on this check out eHow's article....
12 May 2009: Bram Pitoyo on The Secret History of Fonts
Ever think about where your favorite fonts are derived from? Well, Bram Pitoyo does. In this week's Episode of Ignite this self proclaimed "type nerd" tells us about the secret history of fonts from Helvetica to Arial many of them...
Lisa Katayama is a tech journalist and an expert on Japanese culture. She combines the two in her Ignite talk this week where she demystifies Japanese gadgets and their society's fascination with them. You've probably read Lisa's writing before. She...
28 April 2009: Brian Malow on Hydrogen and Helium
Hydrogen and Helium are the most common (and lightest) elements in the universe. Science comedian Brian Malow tells their story from the Big Bang to the Helium capitol of the world in Texas. This was filmed at Ignite SF. This...
21 April 2009: Jonathan Kahan on Samurai Swords as Cutting Edge Technology
A katana (commonly called a samurai sword) is a marvel of art and technology. In this week's Ignite Episode, Jonathan Kahan walks us through its creation and usage. This was filmed at Ignite NYC 3. This work is licensed under...
14 April 2009: Monica Guzman on Being an Awesome News Commenter
Much is made about how the news industry has to change because of the internet. Not as much is said about the other side of the coin: how we, the consumers, can change. Monica Guzman (@moniguzman), a reporter for the...
7 April 2009: Vanessa Holfeltz on Boiling Water in 5 Steps
This week's Ignite episode starts with the simple premise that you are going to boil water. However we're going to attempt it via our own nuclear reactor. Using just 20 slides nuclear engineer Vanessa Holfeltz walks us through the...
In the 1800s cities used pneumatic tubes to transfer physical documents. Of course with the internet we no longer need these long tunnels, but that doesn't mean that they aren't fun to learn about how these old systems are similar...
24 March 2009: Ignite: Dr. Jayson Falkner on DNA Science, It Works!
Dr. Jayson Falkner explains the latest in DNA Science, how its effected human evolution and what it's doing to our society. The title is a tribute to the classic XKCD cartoon "Science! It Works....". The Ignite Show will feature a...
17 March 2009: Ignite: Amber Case on Cyborg Anthroplogy
Amber Case is a Cyber Anthropologist and studies how tech is changing our lives. In just five minutes, she runs through her research on the ever-expanding population of cyborgs.
This week's Ignite Show features Andrew Schneider, a performance artist, and his DIY experimental performance devices, but first a cupcake decorating contest. The cupcake decorating contest and Andrew's talk were filmed at Ignite NYC II.
This week's Ignite Show features Rob Gruhl. Rob loves to buy cars, but more than that he loves to bargain for cars. He shares his secrets today. This talk was filmed at Ignite Seattle III.
23 February 2009: Ignite Show: Kati London on Botanicalls: Homegrown Terra-rists
Today we are releasing "Botanicalls: Homegrown Terra-rists" the second episode of the Ignite Show. This week's speaker is Kati London, the co-creator of Botanicalls, a device that will let you know when your plant needs watering via Twitter. Kati doesn't spend much time explaining Botanicalls instead she talks about some fun(ny) uses for it.
19 February 2009: Ignite Show: Jason Grigsby on Cup Noodle
Today we are launching the first episode of the Ignite Show. The Ignite Show will feature a different speaker each week. This week's speaker is Jason Grigsby doing a talk that was originally performed at Ignite Portland. Jason takes fun look at how Cup Noodle was created and how the team had to embrace constraints and new ideas to create this new food.
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