Tag Archives: ted talks

Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface

I’m starting a new stream of posts that will collect random items that I think are fan-frigin-tastic. The category, Things Done Well, will be a hodgepodge of items that are interesting to me in some way — whether it be an intriguing podcast, a piece of tech, a bottle of booze, a movie/TV show, or …

Jane McGonigal’s +20 Crazy Idea

The counter-balance to yesterday’s insane video, this is game developer Jane McGonigal’s TEDTALK. It’s absolutely brilliant. Key take-aways: Gamers have spent 5.93 million years (collectively) playing WoW and solving its problems. By 21, the average kid in a country with a strong gaming culture will have spent 10,000 hours playing games (read Outliers for why …