With just three days to go to TEDxTelAviv here are some of our favourite technology talks from TED around the world:
Blaise Aguera y Arcas Demos Photosynth

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry Demo SixthSense

William Kamkwamba On Building A Windmill At 14:

Plus, from TED’s Best of The Web – Steve Jobs On How To Live Before You Die:

With just 4 days to go…you can register to attend the TEDxTelAviv After Party!
Following the TED tradition of having a killer party to close the event, TEDxTelAviv will have an after party complete with food, drink and live music by Assaf Avidan.
So, even if you didn’t make the main event, you can still party with [...]

Talk to me about: Ideas, golf, interactive, …anything.
With just 6days to go, here’s a tag cloud of what TEDxTelAviv things attendees us to ‘talk to them about’:
TEDxTelAviv-TalkTo Me About Tag Cloud
What do you want us to talk to you about?

A few weeks ago we shared information on TED’s open translation project, also thanking the Hebrew translators who have volunteered their time to make over 220 TED talks available in Hebrew!
And now I have the opportunity to introduce 3 of them – all of whom are attending TEDxTelAviv.
Meet Shlomo Adam, Yifat Ben Yaacov and Shaike [...]

With 9 days to go to TEDxTelAviv, I thought I’d share another TED’s best of the web.
In this inspiring talk, Carnegie Mellon Professor, Randy Pausch, who was dying of pancreatic cancer, delivers his a one-of-a-kind last lecture – on how to really achieve your childhood dreams.

TEDxTelAviv attendees at Nalaga’at will get to go on a special ’switching’ experience during breaks and take the Better Place electric vehicle on a test drive through the streets of Jaffa. All this and Better, on April 26th…

With less than two weeks to go, we are thrilled to share with you the program for the day and the speakers list. This program will be intercepted with short talks, dance performances and tech demos.
Download the TEDxTelAviv Program.
We invite you to join TEDxTelAviv Live on April 26th:

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Biochemist Mark Roth reawakens (pardon the pun) the field of suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It’s more possible and applicable to humans than we think:

ps they’re in human trials!!!

In partnership with Israblog, the largest blogging platform in Israel, we challenge bloggers in Israel and around the world to blog about TED & TEDxTelAviv for the chance to be guests at TEDxTelAviv on April 26th.
In conjunction with the competition, a TEDTalk will be posted on Israblog everyday for 6days in an open forum where [...]

As you may know, the TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world thanks to the work of 1000’s of tireless volunteers who offer their professional translation services free to TED.
Thank You HE Translators
There are currently 172 talks in Hebrew – making Hebrew on of the most translated languages on TED. And [...]

“The world is going to need all these different kinds of minds working together. We’ve got to work on developing all these different kinds of minds”

Temple Grandin is a Dr, a specialist in designing animal handling systems, and also autistic.
Listen to her thoughts about how the world needs many kind of minds, and gain [...]

TEDxTelAviv ‘Thriving on Turmoil’ is a one-day Spring celebration of imagination and inspiration combining local zest with the TED tradition of ideas worth spreading.
Due to overwhelming response, registration for the main event in Tel Aviv is now closed. But you can still be a part of the day!
We invite you to join us at one [...]

Arguably one of the most important talks from TED2010, watch as Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future: Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

You can also read Bill’s reflections on the experience of talking at TED here

Watch as Jamie Oliver , the 2010 TED Prize winner, shares his wish for a food revolution – to transform how we feed ourselves and our children:

PS TED2010 is happening right now! Watch and keep up to date with TED2010 as it happens here

How does one supply healthcare in a world in which ‘cost’ is everything?
Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for the regions most in need. In this fascinating talk George Whitesides explains his answer for zero cost diagnostics – a diagnostic tool the size of a postage stamp. Genius. [...]

Start the week with some great rhythm and music from 2009’s TEDIndia:
Percussionist Sivamani creates a world of sound combining traditional and western instruments with common household items: spoons, water, luggage…

“I think we have found the most important factor for predicting life success”
In just 6 fast and funny minutes, Joachim de Posada shares an experiment for predicting future success – using a marshmallow, 5 year olds and…

If the following is something you normally carry around,

Two Nikon D700 camera bodies
Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8 G lens
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 G lens
Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8 G lens
Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4 G lens
Batteries and charger for the D700s
Monopod
Tripod with ball head
R-Strap
Artic Butterfly sensor brush
Lens cleaning paper
Rocket Blower
Shootsac
WhiBal card
Compact Flash cards (mix of SanDisk 8GB and [...]

Our thoughts are with Haiti…But “what can we do?”

Image (c) Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Here is a re-post of an answer from TED’s curator, Chris Anderson:
Numerous members of the TED community have sought to find a way to help victims of the Haiti quake. We believe one of the organizations best placed to make an immediate difference [...]