Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds

[boomtao]

Am I the only one who doesn't understand what the last project was all about?

[JornikHendrix]

go pixels!

[insomniacgrace]

This is so cool and amazing. Imbaha ani oie.

[KantutJuice]

Agreed. I loved the idea of always sensing and then 'actuating'. But what came after was boring and stupid.

[Murakamizo]

wow, the animation of the dancer was so so woeful. I don't understand why some tech people like to show this disgusting low quality awkward body animations.

The flying pixels are so marketing oriented, the cost is huge, a lot of energy wasted. why? they are showing 2D images with it, boring, 3D images are also boring. We don't need flying super expensive pixels, we need projects that could use sensible information about how to think and use energy on cities. Like the f1 but useful

[greatgoindia2020]

@Murakamizo You are so right, at the end of the talk I did not understand how is he going to fight climate change with this crap.TED has to check the quality of work.

[ChalleFoV3]

Great talk, but what made me return was his jacket. Does anyone know where I can get it?

[fragelalu]

Future pollution of corporate visuals.

[olivepizzayum]

FLYING PIXEL !!!!

[AgrivatedKillah]

Anybody thinking about that Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode where Carl got his foot cut off by an advertisement?

I'm kind of nervous lol jk.. but this is awesome.

[POLlyy23]

when italy cheated themselves to a world cup.

[nkaramazov]

Just wait till 4chan finds out about this...

[MegaPanzers1]

this is genius! its the first step to holograms it's simply fantastic!

[Sofrie37]

where is the building? any pictures?

[psyoptech]

While the idea is there for a better world, the millitary still uses most ideas for a reason that doesn't help the masses....

[SincereCreature]

Awesome! I can't wait to see this somewhere!

[Neylonx]

how, those little helicopters, given some development, could lead to some awesome stage effects for gigs and events

[Neylonx]

lol trapcode form in after effects

[Devoti]

awesome!

[laojace]

omg i want such my local mall to have such interactive doors.... and when it malfunctions. MUAHAHA GET WET PEOPLE :D

[Dixavd]

I live in the U.K. and whenever I put on the Local news (I am counted as within London even though I am not in the city itself) it talks about the Olympics and the projected buildings ect... being built and I have never heard of this - the closest I have heard of was the prototype sphere screens allowing anyone form any angle to see the same 2D image but this seems amazing I wonder if it is the built on version of that.

[brod2man]

so our phones are tracking our locations

[Shaunt1]

Amazing technology!

[FadeLLW]

Wow, the london Olympics is going to be amazing.

[Talon3000]

That glowing cloud of pixels reminds me of the movie Megamind. That guy used something similar

[Zero7evenX]

I think the whether would have something to say about those flying lights, not to mention the battery power.

This was a bit like a catwalk fashion show. all overboard and unnecessary

We'll all be in tune within city networks soon anyway, when they force us to carry chipped ID cards with sensors dotted around the place recording our every move

[shanemacc]

whos' in charge ... are we driving the memes or are the memes driving us...

[1simonmatthews]

Too damn right it'll be used to put adverts above our heads. In the future we won't be able to look out the window without seeing huge holographic yellow Ms everywhere we look, and 3D text and images reminding us that our lives are good, to vote for our great politicians and to tax our cars. There's more ads now than ever, and it's not going to slow down, only get worse. The rich want your money and they'll come up with ever-more inventive ways of getting it off you. It's not cool, it's control.

[TheAussieSwim]

Italy got the the grand final because they cheated against Australia

[EllaABo]

I want this. :]

[zanderzander05]

Is it just me or did he not mention a single original idea?

[JornikHendrix]

why do we still think in pixels??? Pretty cool stuff though. Architecture and interaction FTW!!!

[WokenOne]

@JornikHendrix actually people just started to think in "pixels". And, in my opinion, that is the right way. Because everything IS in "pixels" - Atoms are pixels, molecules are, rocks, water drops, animals, humans, cars, buildings , etc...

its just the matter of how close/far you are to an object to consider it a "pixel".

When you see a person face to face you wont notice it, but as you move away, you will =)

[JornikHendrix]

@WokenOne That is quite right my virtual companion, we know that everything due to perspective from far away looks like a dot and that everything can be analysed in dots-pixels(pointillism, TV etc) but we live in 20freekin11 where we should be thinking even more advanced. our thoughts are dots but if we put them together we might get something extraordinary!!! Keep thinking creatively.

[laojace]

@JornikHendrix Small is the new big :D

[boutdempapers]

@laojace u must be real happy about that... hahahaha

[RedCherrySolutions]

Out of 3000 items of rubbish, I can't believe none of them left the US for another part of the world ... would have been great if the mobile transmitter used the international dialing code?, perhaps more useful data would have been collected I'm sure. The animation also didn't show when the devices stopped transmitting, most of the items stopped very quickly, perhaps after the items were crushed, melted-down or transmitters found?

[austpom333]

That car monitor is ridiculous - i mean honestly

[Icemario87]

I just noticed TED has a circle and a slash over a dollar sign at the end of their videos... awesome.

[jadedimp]

that is awesome.

[D3mi4n]

Cellular Automata

[elchafa]

Wow the background is trippy

[gaiagale]

tracking 't---h' ...hmmm ...the tracking stopped at the moment the item was found to be of value again. If you had identified the items as post consumer materials or post consumer commodities and tracked the birth to birth potential that would have been useful

[MrIbrahimO]

so, he is planning to use helicopters to control pixels... spend all the time explaining how they're going to get the input, motion capture is not new...

what i am really interested in is how are you going to stabilize the helicopters in this close proximity, any one who has played with these things know how tough is it to control just one let alone hundreds or thousands... 

[PsychedelikMonk]

@MrIbrahimO I was hoping he'd have an answer for that too! Especially since, having played with various sizes myself, I find the smaller they are, the slighter the breeze needed to knock them way off course.

Not to mention the current average flight time v charge time... I'm a bit dubious.

[ridingboy]

Pixels? Sensors? Wow. This is so 90's. Nothing new.

[mukeh111]

Concept is cool. but all I can think about is 3D ads.

[gratex]

tedious.

[KaylinJH]

nature 2.0 now with flying adverts, capitalism FUCK yeah

[Jotto999]

I thought the water building thing was really neat, but having those pixels dancing around would be dazzling!

[maggru91]

In the future when the red-necks have hunted all the animals to extinction I can see this being their being the next thing they'll hunt.

"Oh look a swarm of advert bots are approaching!, bring me the shotgun!!!"

[VuIture]

hmm.... the future fossils of holograms?

[foldoun]

The London cloud looks like a really cool experience - inside and just as something to look up and see.

[artifactingreality]

yes but... what the fuck does the proposed London Cloud actually do?

[rlclaveau]

All i can picture is these flying around satidums advertising viagra ... aka flying hard-on

[RareAirSupply]

@rlclaveau KASPAROV RULES!

[TheSpankymonkey]

@rlclaveau - People see what they want to see. ;-)

[gulllars]

@rlclaveau it would be fun the first time, then annoying after a while, and then just ambient noise.

Imagine having a group of hackers making a program to organize and co-ordinate 61445 of these helicopters into a 256*240 8-bit display (3 LEDs in R/G/B with 3 levles of brightness) +5 sound (4.1) and then proceeding to play NES on it in the sky over a public area unannounced... That would be so awesome.

[Yaheuben66]

*sniff, sniff*-- I smell Project Blue Beam

[Rubatacchini]

cool!!! ...I just hope that something like this will NOT be used to put adverts above our heads

[TheEclecticFrog]

@Rubatacchini It will.

[d3st88]

@Rubatacchini

I'd rather have adverts above my head than before YouTube videos ^^

[MisterEvil1]

@Rubatacchini Don't worry. It will!

[zighte]

@Rubatacchini advertisements paid for the TED conference at which this was displayed. advertisements also paid for this website you watched this video on.

[MrSCPhoenix]

@Rubatacchini if that happens just grab them when they get to close and smash them against the ground :P thats my plan x)

[nesaprotu]

open your mind

[t0yo]

Didn't know the ignorant "first" posting type of crowd actually watches TedTalks =/

[EntinludeX]

Awwww....

[EntinludeX]

tenth!

[JunnyICurosi]

@EntinludeX Hey! Get in line!

[EntinludeX]

@JunnyICurosi "Stand, would you kindly. Sit, would you kindly..."

[Biathine]

sixth

[JunnyICurosi]

fifth

[bukon90]

fourth

[JunnyICurosi]

Third.

[Hannesexy]

second



[damuschka]

first



[GHortaV]

@damuschka Wow! how does it feel to be the first one to type a comment on a video?? I've been wanting to do it for years! : /

[damuschka]

@GHortaV really really reeeeaallly good. I thought it is kind of stupid, but than i realized, I AM THE FIRST! So i did it anyway. Hope you´ll have the pleasure one day, too!