Videos tagged with Google Tech Talks

Mike "Mish" Shedlock is author of one of the most read economics blogs on the Internet: Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis [http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/]. Mish gave an @Google talk, sharing his perspective on the state of the global economy (housing, the stock market, commodities, etc.) He also provides his interesting story about how he started blogging, and the impact that i...

This talk is about MakerBot, a new low-cost, open-source CNC fabrication robot produced by MakerBot Industries. MakerBot is an evolution of the RepRap project. Adam Mayer, one of the three founders of MakerBot Industries, will be on hand to present and demonstrate MakerBot and answer questions. Adam Mayer is one of the three founders of MakerBot Industries, and one of the core members of NYC Re...

A talk by Matthew LandauerFounder/Developermatthew@openaustralia.org

Panoramic and spherical-view cameras today are by and large one of three types: A single camera with wide-angle optics, such as a fisheye lens or curved mirror; Multiple cameras looking out directly in different directions; or Multiple cameras looking out off flat mirrors, which is FullViews patented approach. Whereas multiple cameras offer much higher resolution than any single camera, multipl...

Former NASA engineer Neal Saiki discusses the design of the Zero X and and Zero S electric motorcycles, as well as the challenges inherent in getting the Zero Motorcycles business off the ground. The Zero X dirt bike shipped in 2008 and was designed from the ground up to operate solely on electric power. The Zero X chassis is made out of aircraft aluminum and one of the lightest motorcycle fram...

Space Tourism Markets What We Know And What We Dont Know (And how soon will we be able to fly to Australia by hypersonic transport?) Space Tourism: what is happening and what are the trends? Will there be a point-to-point sub-orbital vehicle capable of getting from California to Australia in an hour? How do we forecast a market for something that does not exist yet? Which of the current busines...

Charles Pooley speaks about his work in creating *VERY* small rockets (~500kg) to launch a one pound payload to orbit or beyond.http://www.microlaunchers.com/ Charles Pooley Google Tech TalkMarch 3, 2009

The Java Card™ system is the smallest Java™ platform available, but what can you do with it? This session covers some interesting examples involving the playSIM development kit. playSim is an open-source development kit for prototyping new and creative Java Card 3 technology-based applications without the hardware limitations of today's smart cards. It combines the flexibility of th...

Mankind's fossil fuel burning releases CO2 into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and deadly air pollution. Natural resources are rapidly being depleted by world population growth. Safe, inexpensive energy from the liquid fluoride thorium reactor can stop much global warming and raise prosperity of humanity to adopt US and OECD lifestyles, which include lower, sustainable birth rat...

The Church-Turing thesis is one of the foundations of computer science. The thesis heralded the dawn of the computer revolution by enabling the construct of the universal Turing machine which led the way, at least conceptually, to the von Neumann architecture and first electronic computers. One way to state the Church-Turing thesis is as follows: A Turing Machine computes every numerical functi...