Woody Norris: Inventing the next amazing thing
www.ted.com Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it “Almost nothing has been invented yet.” So — what’s next?TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on …
BatsBasilica
on June 29th, 2009
Remarkable people? Bill Clinton?! Remarkable dirt-bag is more like it. Might as well throw Bush Junior AND Senior up there, Al Gore, Obama etc. It’ll be a dirt-bag convention.
NorseRonin
on June 29th, 2009
let’s just leave it as “it would be a funny thing to do, regardless of politcal correctness (or lack thereof)”. most of the american troops are christian and most of the “enemy” is not and that’s not just assumption. if you’re going to whisper into there ears from miles away you might as well have fun doing it, even if they don’t understand. the point is for them to hear voices of americans and see how they respond, having fun while doing it will only lessen the stress on our troops anyway.
haas80
on June 29th, 2009
I understand your intentions and i agree that it would be funny but again you are assuming that an ally would be Christian and an enemy wouldnt. biblical is a direct reference to Christianity. so lets just say it can be used by any faith to identify people of a different faith regardless of the reason they have in mind. sorry for over analyzing.
NorseRonin
on June 29th, 2009
i was speaking in military terms, and it has nothing to do with religion. i’m an atheist anyway, and it doesn’t matter what they say on the speakers, but the biblical thing would be funny to do. it would determine who’s an ally by seeing if there is a temperature shift when they hear it. i can’t believe i just had to explain that whole thing to you, hopefully you go the message.
haas80
on June 29th, 2009
So any non-Christian is your enemy?
NorseRonin
on June 29th, 2009
why is the biblical thing too far? it would determine (or at least help determine) if they’re allies or not.
CPeyser08
on June 29th, 2009
There is a line that has to be drawn here of course (I think the Biblical thing was too far).
But the turret is just.. SO SICK!!! Brilliantly simple, man…
redlightrecords
on June 29th, 2009
you’d think they could apply it toward something other than consumer novelty or war mongers…
ravishethwala
on June 29th, 2009
great invention..
bosszaagy
on June 29th, 2009
i forgot to say that it is an intresting device it will actually help in the future
ArcaneKarma
on June 29th, 2009
I don’t see how it would, but I also don’t see why people are voting you down for asking a question, so I could just be clueless.
bosszaagy
on June 29th, 2009
excuse me but doesnt it affect our brains like causing a headache or something
eap8317
on June 29th, 2009
Great invention for cinemas, home theaters and other things..not sure about having annoying adverts in the supermarket, it is already annoying with all those products that you don’t want and need….
Focaloren
on June 29th, 2009
Me, on the other hand would do my best to kill as many as possible till I died myself. ^^ But that’s mostly because of our culture. If we get fucked with, we fuck them up. It’s in our blood, from the viking age. It’s called: “blods hevn” or in english: “Blood revenge”. It happens all the time here, even now. ^^
Focaloren
on June 29th, 2009
It really doesn’t matter which religion they have. The worst terrorists are religious people.
Can’t say that they all are followers of islam, not in the radical way. Just think for yourself- what if your most loved one was killed because of a leader in your country has a different culture than the leader in another country- then the one that got insultet kills your loved ones just and calls it: “OH, we mis bombed, shhhh”. Would you just think: “o, that sucks” then do nothing? :p
alexross8
on June 29th, 2009
I wish i had a sound laser..
WOW that would be so cool in public.
Batchad28
on June 29th, 2009
99% of them do. Islam is the enemy of peace and civility. Stop lying to yourself!
TurtleVVisperer
on June 29th, 2009
It sounds like he’s bragging and selling the whole time. Interesting stuff though.
lostinaparadox
on June 29th, 2009
futurama time
therobanata
on June 29th, 2009
Yes, well put. A shame that this was all created as a result of personal interests.
Focaloren
on June 29th, 2009
You wouldn’t hm, if this gets the interest of everyone, it’ll cost about nothing, and it’ll be almost free. People want to make money, so they’ll put 10’s of those things in their shops, to get money from the AD people.
If they do, all the shops will have them, and then you would have to choose if you’re gonna stay on the red line, og beside it- ad free or not. =D
Hearing aids, and pacemakers. I doubt that 100%.
Look at a pic of Tokyo, or NY etc, Ads will fuck you up no matter if you run =D
jewto0b
on June 29th, 2009
The point is I shouldn’t have to choose something like that every time I go outside, and it shouldn’t be forced on me.
Television and radio is different, this is talking public annoyance/harassment and there will no doubt be privacy issues as well. What about medical conditions? Do these waves interfere with hearing aids, pacemakers etc? Do they even care if it does or not?
I certainly would not shop at a place that employs these invasive techniques.
wedrinkmountaindew
on June 29th, 2009
creepy…the CIA used to to use this kinda stuff in the 60’s and 70’s to electronically harrass people
Focaloren
on June 29th, 2009
Not all terrorists believe in islam. Most of the “terrorists” have had their families killed by some angry americans, then they want to kill them, since they’ve got nothing to lose.
What do people do then? Yeah, kill more people, and get this going on forever. They’ve started a cluster of events that won’t stop, untill the whole white race, or the sand people race is gone
Focaloren
on June 29th, 2009
Meh, it’ll be better. You can chose if you want to hear it or not. You can be AD free for the rest of your life if this invention got out on the market.