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These Students Built A Glove That Translates Sign Language Into English
Two UW undergraduate students won $10,000 for building a gadget-loaded glove that translates sign language gestures into audio.
A pair of undergraduates at the University of Washington made a glove that translates gestures in American Sign Language (ASL) into English and speaks it via speakers. The SignAloud glove won them a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize and international attention. Now they’re figuring out how to refine their gadget for social good…and make sure they pass their college exams.
Netflix Knows Which Pictures You’ll Click On–And Why
The service’s recent experiments with images reveal some surprising (and useful) takeaways about why people click what they do.
It’s still one of the great mysteries of the Internet: with the millions of images that bombard us on the web every day, what makes us click on one instead of another? Are some pictures universally appealing, or is art always a matter of personal opinion?
Let The Head Of TED Show You How To End Your Speech With Power
Chris Anderson offers three much better alternatives to, “Well, that’s all my time, so, uh, thanks for listening.”
If you’ve held people’s attention through your talk, don’t ruin it with a flat ending.
Four Simple Rules To Avoid Saying Something You’ll Regret
Here’s how to make sure you’ll always say something memorable—for the right reasons.
Daniel Craig, the 47-year-old actor who’s portrayed James Bond for nearly a decade, had just finished filming Spectre, the 24th Bond film and Craig’s fourth in the franchise. He still had one more to do, according to the terms of his contract, but had been offered a new role in a TV series. When a reporter asked Craig if he’d ever play Bond again after that, he declared, “I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists . . . All I want to do is move on.”
TED Talk Masters Teach You How To Tell A Story That Actually Means Something
The point of a talk is to say something meaningful,” says TED’s Chris Anderson. “But it’s amazing how many talks never quite do that.”
“It happens way too often: You’re sitting there in the audience, listening to someone talk, and you know that there is a better and great talk in that person, it’s just not the talk he’s giving.” That’s TED’s Bruno Giussani, a man who cannot stand seeing potentially great speakers blow their opportunity.
This MIT Scientist’s Donald Trump Bot Needs A Little Human Assistance
Bots still need to be kept on a short leash.
For anyone who just can’t get enough of Donald Trump’s social media posts, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has created a bot that generates tweets in the candidate’s style.
How To Help Fix Your Employee’s Time Management Problem
Being bad at time management isn’t necessarily a personal failing, it’s a skills gap that you can help coach your employee to overcome.
You might think that by the time people enter the workforce, they would know how to manage their time. And yet in any office, there is someone who creates chaos and bad feelings because of his or her relationship with the clock. As a manager, “You really shouldn’t be the one who has to teach this,” says Bruce Tulgan, author of Bridging the Soft Skills Gap, and yet if it’s a business issue, then you do. So how can you teach an employee time management?
New Fancy Dorms Look A Lot Like Coliving Spaces
As companies like WeWork make adult housing look more like dorms, a developer is building dorms to look like adult housing. Convergence!
Coliving, the latest trend in real estate, is often compared to “dorms for adults.” Instead of isolated apartments, housing projects like WeWork’s WeLive offer tiny, furnished rooms and abnormally generous common spaces. Others, like Brooklyn-based Common, cater to a more mature crowd (sans WeLive’s laundry-room arcade) but follow a similar concept: Residents rent furnished rooms inside of larger community complexes, just like many of them did in college.
A Terrifying Photo Collection Shows How Climate Change Is Destroying The Planet Right Now
If people sometimes talk about climate change as a problem of the future, it’s pretty clear it’s already here.
In 2015, the hottest year on record, heat waves killed hundreds of people, a glacier in Greenland lost a chunk of ice the size of Manhattan, and the wettest rainforest in the United States caught fire. 2016 is going be even hotter.
