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VIDEO: Louise Vet on the marriage between economy and ecology

TEDxAmsterdam: Louise Vet on the marriage between economy and ecology from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. Prof dr Louise Vet is a professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Wageningen University and director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), t

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 11, 2009

VIDEO: Marcel Dicke, ‘Why not eat insects?’

TEDxAmsterdam: Marcel Dicke from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. Prof. dr. Marcel Dicke is an ecologist with a special interest in the relation between plants and insects. He is a recipient of the NWO-Spinoza award, also known as the Dutch Nobel prize. The

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 10, 2009

VIDEO: Danny Plass and Bram van de Laar on Alpha World of Warcraft

TED Talk Alpha World of Warcraft from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. aWoW (Alpha World of Warcraft) is an application that extracts your state of mind and applies this information in the actual game. By means of relaxing or agitating yourself you are able

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 10, 2009

VIDEO: Gernout Erens on Wattcher

TEDxAmsterdam Talk: Gernout Erens on Wattcher from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. The Wattcher is a product that displays the electricity consumption in the home allowing you to monitor and curb energy use. Dtuch designer Marcel Wanders designed the Wattch

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 10, 2009

VIDEO: Claire Boonstra on Layar

TEDxAmsterdam: Layar from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. Claire Boonstra is co-founder of the “Layar Reality Browser”, which displays real time digital information on top of reality in the camera screen of the mobile phone. While looking through the ph

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 10, 2009

VIDEO: Bruno Giussani on TED and spreading ideas

TEDxAmsterdam: Bruno Giussani from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. Bruno Giussani is the European Director of the TED Conferences. He is also a writer, and the producer of the Swiss Forum des 100; Member of the Boards of Internet consultancy Tinext and of t

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 10, 2009

VIDEO: 3d view of TEDxAmsterdam

What was TEDxAmsterdam like? You can read the reports, watch the talks online, but you can also ‘walk around” in the Royal Tropical Institute for a few minutes and feel part of the TEDxAmsterdam experience. First of all, take a look at th

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 7, 2009

VIDEO: Jacob Gelt Dekker on the search for the pot of gold

Jacob Gelt Dekker from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. Jacob Gelt Dekker is a modern day explorer with an entrepreneurial spin and above all a philanthropist. Gelt Dekker’s entrepreneurial successes include hotels, art companies, music businesses and one-

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 7, 2009

Earth Water

Every day 6,000 people die, mostly children, by the lack of clean drinking water. To help Earth Water we are not asking donations or time in the form of volunteering, Earth Water only asks you to drink water. The net profit Earth Water realizes wit

By TEDx Staff on December 7, 2009

VIDEO: Alexander Buksch and Daniel Berio on 3DRange

TEDxAmsterdam: Alexander Buksch and Daniel Berio on 3D Range from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. 3D range cameras produce thousands of distance measures in one picture, and produce up to 100 pictures per second. The result is an animated point cloud, where

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 3, 2009