http://www.ted.com With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.

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1. I'm probably related to him. Nice.
2. 3:18
3. we have to start somewhere....it may be expensive at the moment....but things and theories develop....i think it might actually...be really...grt...to map the movement in the cities..it gives a grt scope for better urban planning and thoughtful designing...
4. a very interesting presentation
5. Am I the only one who doesn't understand what the last project was all about?
6. go pixels!
7. wow, the animation of the dancer was so so woeful. I don't understand why some tech people like to show this disgusting low quality awkward body animations. The flying pixels are so marketing oriented, the cost is huge, a lot of energy wasted. why? they are showing 2D images with it, boring, 3D images are also boring. We don't need flying super expensive pixels, we need projects that could use sensible information about how to think and use energy on cities. Like the f1 but useful
8. Great talk, but what made me return was his jacket. Does anyone know where I can get it?
9. Future pollution of corporate visuals.
10. Anybody thinking about that Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode where Carl got his foot cut off by an advertisement? I'm kind of nervous lol jk.. but this is awesome.
11. when italy cheated themselves to a world cup.
12. Just wait till 4chan finds out about this...
13. where is the building? any pictures?
14. While the idea is there for a better world, the millitary still uses most ideas for a reason that doesn't help the masses....
15. awesome!
16. @JornikHendrix Small is the new big :D
17. omg i want such my local mall to have such interactive doors.... and when it malfunctions. MUAHAHA GET WET PEOPLE :D
18. I live in the U.K. and whenever I put on the Local news (I am counted as within London even though I am not in the city itself) it talks about the Olympics and the projected buildings ect... being built and I have never heard of this - the closest I have heard of was the prototype sphere screens allowing anyone form any angle to see the same 2D image but this seems amazing I wonder if it is the built on version of that.
19. @WokenOne That is quite right my virtual companion, we know that everything due to perspective from far away looks like a dot and that everything can be analysed in dots-pixels(pointillism, TV etc) but we live in 20freekin11 where we should be thinking even more advanced. our thoughts are dots but if we put them together we might get something extraordinary!!! Keep thinking creatively.
20. @JornikHendrix actually people just started to think in "pixels". And, in my opinion, that is the right way. Because everything IS in "pixels" - Atoms are pixels, molecules are, rocks, water drops, animals, humans, cars, buildings , etc... its just the matter of how close/far you are to an object to consider it a "pixel". When you see a person face to face you wont notice it, but as you move away, you will =)