Mitchell McKenna - tagged with magic http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9959/marco-tempest-the-magic-of-truth-and-lies-and-ipods

http://www.ted.com Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.

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 design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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Lennart Green: Close-up Card Magic http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4996/lennart-green-close-up-card-magic

Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.

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NVIDIA: Adam & Jamie draw a MONA LISA in 80 milliseconds! http://mitchmckenna.com/post/117/nvidia-adam-amp-jamie-draw-a-mona-lisa-in-80-milliseconds

NVIDIA: Adam & Jamie draw a MONA LISA in 80 milliseconds!

NVIDIA: Adam and Jamie, hosts of the known mythbusters show compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an ACTUAL mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was for NVIDIA's NVISION Show From: artmaze1974 Views: 2360286

5900 ratings Time: 02:15 More in Science & Technology

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