“ARE YOU ON CRACK?” Jeb Corliss, normally fidgety and intense, is getting really animated now. It's late November, and we've been talking for 45 minutes, mostly about his trial here in New York City.

Here are two amazing TED Talks from Tan Le, John Delaney and Jeb Corliss. Le heads up Emotiv Systems, which is bridging the gap between computers and humans and how we might one day interact with them ...