Who’s TED?
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The better question is, what is TED?
TED — which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — is an annual four-day conference that brings together the world’s leading thinkers and doers with the expressed mission of sharing ideas. The conference’s trademark is TED Talks, a series of 18-minute presentations that challenge the speaker — usually a celebrity or genius of some sort — to deliver the speech of his/her life. This year’s speaker list includes: Bill Gates, David Rockwell, Sarah Silverman, Eve Ensler, and Jamie Oliver, this year’s TED Prize winner.
Participation in TED is by invitation only, with only about a thousand specially-selected invitees per year. This week, Ben, Jason, and Mike are in sunny California attending TED2010, listening to aMAZing speeches and rubbing shoulders with celebs (literally — the other day, Mike tweeted: oh hi there cameron. diaz). That’s three Quirksters, which if you’re counting, amounts to 1/4 of our staff, which if you think about it, is a pretty good indication of how ridiculously talented/amazing/genius the people behind Quirky are. Just thought we’d show off.
Check out some of Mike’s reTweets on our Twitter page.
Photo credits: TED/James Duncan Davidson & Mike Femia.
2 Comments
Stephen (InventionAddict) | 02/11/2010 11:14 PM
I’m jealous!. I would love to go but I’m so shy I probably wouldn’t talk to anyone.
palin | 02/18/2010 11:29 AM
Wait – tell me the quirky team was not part of the attendees that couldn’t grasp Silverman’s retard spiel? TED is a laughing stock right now – these are suppose to be bright minds?