It has been nearly a year of absence from my blog.  I am back with some keys to enlightenment if you want it.

I had lost hope for major advances in technology in the current economic climate and the I-Phone/Pod/Shuffle application placated world.

I had been hearing about TED talks. I didn’t think I was interested in listening to inventors going on about whatever it is they were making.  I never bothered to go to the site until yesterday a comment in the online news referenced Pranav Mistry’s TED Talk so  I googled it and landed in TED land.

I was really encouraged about the future of technology by his TED talk in India about projection based user-interfaces.
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

I was so excited.  It felt like getting into the most elite illuminati club for free and it had been available so long ago, I was kicking myself to not going sooner.

Then I was smitten with Janine Benyus' concept of Biomimicry in this TED talk where she gives incredible examples of using the scientific expertise of the natural world to drive the future of engineering and design:

http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html

Also check out Janine Benyus' most recent project: www.AskNature.org

I was also googling Binaural beats and tones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats)and it landed me on a TED talk by  inventor Woody Norris on his INCREDIBLE audio technologies. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/woody_norris_invents_amazing_things.html

And lastly, my kid brother, an engineer himself, let me to MIT’s website where free video of lectures are in abundance: http://watch.mit.edu/

My brain is doing a happy dance.  Truly a revolution in education.

Now it is time for my soul to do a happy dance….