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17 Year-Old Creates a 3D-Printed Robotic Prosthetic Arm for $500
A Colorado teenager has used 3D printing to create a robotic prosthetic arm that costs less than $500 and is...
James Watson: How we discovered DNA
Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis...
Allan Jones: A map of the brain
How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city:...
Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts.
Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks...
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living...
Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels"
Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion,...
Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
Sheila Nirenberg studies how the brain encodes information -- possibly allowing us to decode it, and maybe develop prosthetic sensory...
Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"
Bonnie Bassler studies how bacteria can communicate with one another, through chemical signals, to act as a unit. Her work...