TED on porn, malaria and robots
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Peter Bowes looks around the state-of-the-art 'green' house at TED 2009
Porn as education, robots at war, and retired Microsoft boss Bill Gates' mosquito release were just some of the highlights at the TED conference.
TED, the Technology Entertainment Design conference consists of a series of talks given by "big thinkers" discussing "big ideas."
It is attended by many of the world's leading scientists, academics and business leaders.
Mr Gates' stunt was to drive home the serious message of malaria prevention.
With the issue being high on the agenda of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the former software boss told the crowd in Long Beach, California "Not only poor people should experience this."
While he asked the audience "How do you stop a deadly disease that is spread by mosquitoes?", Mr Gates also noted that more money is spent finding a cure for baldness than eradicating malaria.
 The release of the mosquitoes got everyone's attention |
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged nearly $170 million (
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