The second day of TED2009 was somewhat more interesting. Oliver Sacks, probably most known (if at all) by the masses for his book Awakenings, upon which the synonymous movie was based. His presentation kickstarted the day focusing on syndromes that affect people with limited vision. One symptom is the creation or fusion of vision with imaginary constructs, sometimes geometric shapes, others tokens from one’s imagination or things that the person has experienced/seen recently.The next talk was by