Monday, March 17, 2008

Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design

This TED Talk was also interesting to me. It's pretty cool what the multi-touch interface can do. I think it would work great in the school system for kids who knows what he/she is doing and how to use it. It would probably make things easier for some and difficult for others. This might just end the point-and-click mouse, which would be better to me. I know I could, but maybe others too could finish school work in a timely fashion. It wouldn't take as long to type a paper or design a web page, etc. You could actually pull up multiple screen with one touch of the finger, zoom-in, zoom-out, etc.

William Kamkwamba: How I built my family a windmill

This TED Talk was pretty interesting. William talked about how he first started his plan for his windmill, and what he used to make it. It seemed like it took a lot of work and time, but also it seemed cool to build a windmill. The windmill that William made was an electrical-generator windmill. It operates 4 bulbs and 2 radios for his family. He also mentioned that he wanted to buli another one for the crops in ventile village which would take more volts to build. He first built his windmill when he was 15 and now he is 19. What an achiever!