Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe
Adults BusinessWhat makes a great leader? Management theorist Simon Sinek suggests, it's someone who makes their employees feel secure, who draws staffers into a circle of trust. But creating trust and safety - especially in an uneven economy - means taking on big responsibility.
Larry Page: Where's Google going next?
Adults BusinessOnstage at TED2014, Charlie Rose interviews Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for the company. It includes aerial bikeways and internet balloons ... and then it gets even more interesting, as Page talks through the company's recent acquisition of Deep Mind, an AI that is learning some surprising things.
Cort Acoustic Guitar Factory Tour
Adults BusinessThis video provides an in-depth look at how Cort Guitars builds their great acoustic guitars. As one of the world's biggest makers of guitars Cort implements a blend of state of the art technology with vintage guitar building techniques to produce great acoustic guitars. Now for the first time you can get an inside look at how their guitars are built.
What is Nest? Why did Google buy it for $3.2 Billon
Adults BusinessNest builds products like this thermostat that can be remotely set via your smartphone or tablet to automatically adjust to a particular temperature. It also connects to Wi-Fi to analyze and compare the outside weather with your indoor environment in real-time. The thermostat even has a sensor with a 150-degree range to detect when you're not home, so it can adjust the temperature accordingly, and save energy.
Because who is perfect?
Adults BusinessDisabled mannequins will be eliciting astonished looks from passers-by on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse today. Between the perfect mannequins, there will be figures with scoliosis or brittle bone disease modelling the latest fashions. One will have shortened limbs; the other a malformed spine. The campaign has been devised for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by Pro Infirmis, an organisation for the disabled.
How do they do artificial diamonds?
Adults BusinessGemesis diamonds are mostly yellow due to the Nitrogen in the atmosphere getting inside the crystal during the growing process. Apollo diamonds can be created in all colors including colorless depending on how much impurity is introduced in the growing chamber. e.g. add boron to make blue diamonds.
BANCO SABADELL - Som Sabadell flashmob
Adults BusinessOn the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign "Som Sabadell" (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a final culmination with the participation of 100 people from the Valles Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l'Opera and Coral Belles Arts choirs.
How Liquipel Will Make Your Phone Waterproof
Adults BusinessWe check in with the team at Liquipel, a company that impressed us last year with its water-resistent nano-coating for smartphones. Dunking an iPhone into a tub of water and watching it still work perfectly is still amazing and something our brains struggle to comprehend.
Kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum
Adults BusinessThis amazing sculpture is made out of 714 metal balls which move under the command of a combination of codes, electronics and mechanics. This kinetic sculpture needs a surface of six square meters in order to function properly. The 714 aluminum balls are individually controlled by a computer stepper-motor, and they are hung with very thin steel wires which have a diameter of under 0.2 millimeters.