Okay, what he's essentially saying is he uses a child's word game to come up with new toy ideas. In the game you think of a word, and then another word that starts with the same letter as the last letter of the previous word. Apple-e-elephant-t-trumpet, and so on. And then you make an idea out of it. In his case, he uses the game to invent new toys. It's the idea that's important, even if it was translated from Japanese.
Shimpei is a toymaker, he had difficulties with trying to think of new ideas and thus threw data out of the window and thought of a new method of creating new ideas. The method he thought of is a word game(shiritori) whereby he randomly thinks of words and join them together to form a random phrase. He gains inspiration from this method. This method could be also useful in making toys, writing, event hosting, etc. It was a good speech!
He gave so much information, kept the speech short, and added silly humour and props. He is extremely talented. I wish I was that good in front of others. Why are most of the talented people born in Japan?
Translation: www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas/transcript?language=en For some reason they didn't link to it on their YT notes. >.>
007MrYang Eh, kinda. The specific method wasnt really the point. The talk was about criticizing thinking in too restricted a manner, trying to base all your works only on what you are very familiar with, what you are fully informed on, and to instead be willing to think outside the box and try random ideas, explore down entirely random trains of thought to see what you can come up with. The specific one he mentioned using himself was shiritori, you use it to find two entirely unrelated words, then try and think about how you would actually combine the two ideas. Even though nearly every one is bound to be a failure the few ideas that do succeed will be more original, more innovative. He listed a range of other ways of getting random words like leafing through a dictionary and such because the specific means you get random words is irrelevant, the point is to find ideas truly at random and give real consideration to what it would mean to combine them
So I turned on the close caption and then set the player to translate it into English. It thought the jingle at the beginning of the video said 'But' and translated 'konnichiwa' with 'This part' Bravo.
StrykerTen Hardly. They should've just added them to the video. Doesn't take an expert video editor to add subtitles to a youtube video.. Lazy on TED's part. Or they just wanted to get more views on their actual website. edit: I've been skimming the linked page for liek 5 minutes now and still don't see the actual subtitles for this video. I only see a bunch of stuff on how to learn more languages or helping them translate... I had to search his name on the site to find their own video that actually does have embedded subtitles: www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas#t-4771 Shame the link they gave was worthless.
Kougeru it takes an editor that knows the language so you can actually synch the subtitles up. Yeah, its doable, but the youtube is a complete afterthought, TED talks are held for the live attendees, not the youtube viewers. TH-cam is simply used as an archive for the VODs. Yeah, its lazy on their part, but they just dont care because youtube isnt their primary audience. I really dont think they care about pushing traffic to that site as much as you think, I cant think of a single reason they would Yeah, they could have done better with the link, it was pretty silly to link to the main site instead of the video with subs
mandraxhair I am saying they put no effort into the VODs, not that the talk was bad. Saying the "video" was bad would include the talk itself, which I dont agree with, I think the talk was fine, I enjoyed it well enough. It just would have been nice if they put a bit more effort into the VODs so that more people could get the same enjoyment from it Having said that, poking around on their site, it seems they dont just have a transcript, they have a subbed version of the video, so thats a thing
Basically the game mentioned in the title is called "shiritori" in Japanese, where you try to come up with a word that begins with the last letter of the previous word. (He showed an example on his slide that said apple => elephant => trumpet. 'Apple' ends with 'e' and 'elephant' begins with 'e' and so on.) He works in the toy business and uses this game to come up with ideas for toys. Even though many of the words he came up with seemed like they couldn't become toys, it was a good way to brainstorm. For example, he came up with a brush toy (the guitar toothbrush) and a hat toy (the hat with the green monster inside). He said that this method of generating ideas and just throwing them out there doesn't only apply to the toy business, but really it can be used for anything. And you don't have to use that specific game to come up with ideas; it's just one method that he finds useful. _ Hope I could help and if anyone wants to add to/correct my translation please do! My Japanese isn't the greatest. :)
why people are just downvoting it just because it's in japanese. He is basically saying he started making toys 9 years ago.when he tols his friends about his new ideas his friends told him if je has data if the toy will sell or not.He got tired of hearing same data data data so he stopped looking at them.He started to think about new ideas by finding them out of the word game. Like ApplE ElephanT TelephonE etc.So he came ul with new ideas like guitar brush,roulette hat,infinite wrapper.If you are out of new ideas you can try his technique.
bruhhh I looked away from my screen forgetting the audio wasn't english and it took me a good second before I realized the words I could understand weren't being piped into my brain anymore- asside from that I realize I should actually comment on the content if I'm going to comment at all, and I think this will genuinely help me with coming up with ideas. I'm trying to learn how to program, but I've found it's kinda hard to without knowing what you want to do.
I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about this; I watched it on the Android app and comprehensible subtitles came on automatically, I didn't even realise they weren't part of the video...
Basically he is playing a common game in which you take the last letter of a word and think of a new one beginning with that letter. You carry this on until you have an idea. This is to help thinking for developers I guess to sort through 'data data data' I think.
Just incase people haven't noticed this is TEDXTOKYO and they do speak Japanese in Tokyo. Don't just get angry and dislike because you can't understand. The content and the ideas in the video are still valid :( here's a link www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas/transcript?language=en
Summary - He had a dream of making new kinds of toys... but he couldn't come up with any ideas. So instead, he used a game: Word chain. He used the word chain game to get many crazy ideas.... Neko (means cat), Kora (Cola), Raibu (live), Burashu (brush)... etc... He said he could come up with many ideas this way.
I wonder if non-english speakers complain when English TED talks are given without a choice of subs? Instead of complaining, go to the TED website and watch it there, it has subs.
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I don't have a problem with TED talks in other languages, but PLEASE make the title/description in Japanese as well! Why are they in English in the first place?
"If anyone cares the subtitles are on the TED website in English" Well, the important thing is that they are somewhere. No reason to put them *in the fucking video*.
At the bottom of the video in the toolbar, press the button that says 'CC' to turn on captions for the video. Click on the gear (settings) button to toggle languages.
Interactive transcript from ted.com: Hello. I'm a toy developer. With a dream of creating new toys that have never been seen before, I began working at a toy company nine years ago. When I first started working there, I proposed many new ideas to my boss every day. However, my boss always asked if I had the data to prove it would sell, and asked me to think of product development after analyzing market data. Data, data, data. So I analyzed the market data before thinking of a product. However, I was unable to think of anything new at that moment. (Laughter) My ideas were unoriginal. I wasn't getting any new ideas and I grew tired of thinking. It was so hard that I became this skinny. (Laughter) It's true. (Applause) You've all probably had similar experiences and felt this way too. Your boss was being difficult. The data was difficult. You become sick of thinking. Now, I throw out the data. It's my dream to create new toys. And now, instead of data, I'm using a game called Shiritori to come up with new ideas. I would like to introduce this method today. What is Shiritori? Take apple, elephant and trumpet, for example. It's a game where you take turns saying words that start with the last letter of the previous word. It's the same in Japanese and English. You can play Shiritori as you like: "neko, kora, raibu, burashi," etc, etc. [Cat, cola, concert, brush] Many random words will come out. You force those words to connect to what you want to think of and form ideas. In my case, for example, since I want to think of toys, what could a toy cat be? A cat that lands after doing a somersault from a high place? How about a toy with cola? A toy gun where you shoot cola and get someone soaking wet? (Laughter) Ridiculous ideas are okay. The key is to keep them flowing. The more ideas you produce, you're sure to come up with some good ones, too. A brush, for example. Can we make a toothbrush into a toy? We could combine a toothbrush with a guitar and -- (Music noises) -- you've got a toy you can play with while brushing your teeth. (Laughter) (Applause) Kids who don't like to brush their teeth might begin to like it. Can we make a hat into a toy? How about something like a roulette game, where you try the hat on one by one, and then, when someone puts it on, a scary alien breaks through the top screaming, "Ahh!" I wonder if there would be a demand for this at parties? Ideas that didn't come out while you stare at the data will start to come out. Actually, this bubble wrap, which is used to pack fragile objects, combined with a toy, made Mugen Pop Pop, a toy where you can pop the bubbles as much as you like. It was a big hit when it reached stores. Data had nothing to do with its success. Although it's only popping bubbles, it's a great way to kill time, so please pass this around amongst yourselves today and play with it. (Applause) Anyway, you continue to come up with useless ideas. Think up many trivial ideas, everyone. If you base your ideas on data analysis and know what you're aiming for, you'll end up trying too hard, and you can't produce new ideas. Even if you know what your aim is, think of ideas as freely as if you were throwing darts with your eyes closed. If you do this, you surely will hit somewhere near the center. At least one will. That's the one you should choose. If you do so, that idea will be in demand and, moreover, it will be brand new. That is how I think of new ideas. It doesn't have to be Shiritori; there are many different methods. You just have to choose words at random. You can flip through a dictionary and choose words at random. For example, you could look up two random letters and gather the results or go to the store and connect product names with what you want to think of. The point is to gather random words, not information from the category you're thinking for. If you do this, the ingredients for the association of ideas are collected and form connections that will produce many ideas. The greatest advantage to this method is the continuous flow of images. Because you're thinking of one word after another, the image of the previous word is still with you. That image will automatically be related with future words. Unconsciously, a concert will be connected to a brush and a roulette game will be connected to a hat. You wouldn't even realize it. You can come up with ideas that you wouldn't have thought of otherwise. This method is, of course, not just for toys. You can collect ideas for books, apps, events, and many other projects. I hope you all try this method. There are futures that are born from data. However, using this silly game called Shiritori, I look forward to the exciting future you will create, a future you couldn't even imagine. Thank you very much. (Applause)
Datte bayo, Kuchiyose no Jutsu, Kagebunshin no Jutsu, "Tämääää", Nani?, Bakaru, Igzouuuu, Ikeeee, arigato hosaimas, hara haraaa, xD These are the words I know in japanese only ... ouh and BAKATE...
MrQwerty2524 Thats mechanical translation for you, its god awful. It will be another 20 years or so at this rate before asian languages can be mechanically translated into something similar to a human translation. Its doubly worse for this sort of translation where it isnt just reading text, but taking audio and putting that into sentences which it already screws up constantly, THEN trying to translate it with its poor translation softwareThere is an actual subbed version if you check the description, no idea why they didnt use that for the youtube release, pretty stupid really
Sadochrist The whole thing is translated.... man, I would expect this sort of nonsense from the viewers of some terrible top 10s channel or somesuch, but its disappointing to see this from the TED viewer base :/
International TED talks in different languages? Hells yes! We are a multicultural world after all. But without closed captioning, when the title itself is in English? O.o what's the point? At least add closed captioning so i can read along..
I can't express my anger for the stupidity of everyone in the comments saying "I don't speak japanese" THERE ARE SUBTITLES IN EVERY FREAKIN LANGAUNGE sorry had to get that off my chest.
StrykerTen Why do you keep posting this when the link in the description just goes to a page advertising how to learn other languages and/or help them translate stuff? They should've linked here :www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas#t-4771 Or put the proper subtitles in the video
StrykerTen I'll rephrase it... Why upload to TH-cam with an English title and then have a Japanese dub and sub.. Either have an English dub/sub or a Japanese title. Imo, this is just clickbait to get people to visit their site.
Sebastiaan van der Heide Japanese learn english as a mandatory subject (though their spoken tends to be fairly poor) so anyone that can understand the talk should also be able to understand the title It may well be an attempt to drive traffic to the website, I cant say for sure, though if it was I wouldnt call that clickbait, clickbait refers to something a bit different. Personally I think it is just done due to a lack of resources allocated for the youtube. Synching subs up to a video takes editing, specifically an editor that knows the language. They have videos from a range of different speakers in different languages so while possible, it would require work to standardize subs for all the videos. As for the title, having it all in english also makes indexing easier. It is nice for people to be able to find a talk they want to watch without having to learn to type foreign letters Yes, they are all solvable problems clearly, the barrier to solving them is just the extra effort. Since the youtube uploads are an afterthought it doesnt seem like they want to put in any extra effort, they just want an archive for the videos. It sucks but eh, it is what it is. I am just happy they make these videos public for free at all given their purpose behind the talks has nothing to do with youtube
Wakarimashta? One of the few Japanese phrases I know which translates roughly to "do you understand?" Come on, TED editor. Please to pull honorable head from hindquarters.
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Okay, what he's essentially saying is he uses a child's word game to come up with new toy ideas. In the game you think of a word, and then another word that starts with the same letter as the last letter of the previous word. Apple-e-elephant-t-trumpet, and so on. And then you make an idea out of it. In his case, he uses the game to invent new toys.
It's the idea that's important, even if it was translated from Japanese.
the subtitles is in the video!
why are you making a big deal of the guy speaking Japanese
because we'd like to listen to this on the go!
Shimpei is a toymaker, he had difficulties with trying to think of new ideas and thus threw data out of the window and thought of a new method of creating new ideas.
The method he thought of is a word game(shiritori) whereby he randomly thinks of words and join them together to form a random phrase. He gains inspiration from this method. This method could be also useful in making toys, writing, event hosting, etc.
It was a good speech!
He gave so much information, kept the speech short, and added silly humour and props. He is extremely talented. I wish I was that good in front of others.
Why are most of the talented people born in Japan?
Not japan. Asia.
xenophobic much
Give us Shigeru Miyamoto! Even if he speaks Japanese, I will still watch his presentation. He is that awesome.
Translation: www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas/transcript?language=en
For some reason they didn't link to it on their YT notes. >.>
most probably to attract people to the original website.
Thank you for the link
I know just enough Japanese to get the general idea. It's basically playing shiritori and combining the chain of words into a new idea.
007MrYang Eh, kinda. The specific method wasnt really the point. The talk was about criticizing thinking in too restricted a manner, trying to base all your works only on what you are very familiar with, what you are fully informed on, and to instead be willing to think outside the box and try random ideas, explore down entirely random trains of thought to see what you can come up with. The specific one he mentioned using himself was shiritori, you use it to find two entirely unrelated words, then try and think about how you would actually combine the two ideas. Even though nearly every one is bound to be a failure the few ideas that do succeed will be more original, more innovative. He listed a range of other ways of getting random words like leafing through a dictionary and such because the specific means you get random words is irrelevant, the point is to find ideas truly at random and give real consideration to what it would mean to combine them
stop watch this video.. and just read the line, it wil give more sense
StrykerTen thanks
1:33 to 1:43 is all you need to watch...!
So I turned on the close caption and then set the player to translate it into English.
It thought the jingle at the beginning of the video said 'But' and translated 'konnichiwa' with 'This part'
Bravo.
Almost everyone here writes like TED owes them something :/
Thanks for the video I can't understand what so ever....
Kobi Tzarfati There are subtitles linked in the description
StrykerTen Hardly. They should've just added them to the video. Doesn't take an expert video editor to add subtitles to a youtube video.. Lazy on TED's part. Or they just wanted to get more views on their actual website.
edit: I've been skimming the linked page for liek 5 minutes now and still don't see the actual subtitles for this video. I only see a bunch of stuff on how to learn more languages or helping them translate...
I had to search his name on the site to find their own video that actually does have embedded subtitles: www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas#t-4771
Shame the link they gave was worthless.
Kougeru it takes an editor that knows the language so you can actually synch the subtitles up. Yeah, its doable, but the youtube is a complete afterthought, TED talks are held for the live attendees, not the youtube viewers. TH-cam is simply used as an archive for the VODs. Yeah, its lazy on their part, but they just dont care because youtube isnt their primary audience. I really dont think they care about pushing traffic to that site as much as you think, I cant think of a single reason they would
Yeah, they could have done better with the link, it was pretty silly to link to the main site instead of the video with subs
www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas/transcript?language=en
mandraxhair
I am saying they put no effort into the VODs, not that the talk was bad. Saying the "video" was bad would include the talk itself, which I dont agree with, I think the talk was fine, I enjoyed it well enough. It just would have been nice if they put a bit more effort into the VODs so that more people could get the same enjoyment from it
Having said that, poking around on their site, it seems they dont just have a transcript, they have a subbed version of the video, so thats a thing
Basically the game mentioned in the title is called "shiritori" in Japanese, where you try to come up with a word that begins with the last letter of the previous word. (He showed an example on his slide that said apple => elephant => trumpet. 'Apple' ends with 'e' and 'elephant' begins with 'e' and so on.)
He works in the toy business and uses this game to come up with ideas for toys. Even though many of the words he came up with seemed like they couldn't become toys, it was a good way to brainstorm. For example, he came up with a brush toy (the guitar toothbrush) and a hat toy (the hat with the green monster inside).
He said that this method of generating ideas and just throwing them out there doesn't only apply to the toy business, but really it can be used for anything. And you don't have to use that specific game to come up with ideas; it's just one method that he finds useful.
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Hope I could help and if anyone wants to add to/correct my translation please do! My Japanese isn't the greatest. :)
K
why people are just downvoting it just because it's in japanese. He is basically saying he started making toys 9 years ago.when he tols his friends about his new ideas his friends told him if je has data if the toy will sell or not.He got tired of hearing same data data data so he stopped looking at them.He started to think about new ideas by finding them out of the word game. Like ApplE ElephanT TelephonE etc.So he came ul with new ideas like guitar brush,roulette hat,infinite wrapper.If you are out of new ideas you can try his technique.
bruhhh I looked away from my screen forgetting the audio wasn't english and it took me a good second before I realized the words I could understand weren't being piped into my brain anymore- asside from that I realize I should actually comment on the content if I'm going to comment at all, and I think this will genuinely help me with coming up with ideas. I'm trying to learn how to program, but I've found it's kinda hard to without knowing what you want to do.
I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about this; I watched it on the Android app and comprehensible subtitles came on automatically, I didn't even realise they weren't part of the video...
A new use for shiritori. I like it!
Basically he is playing a common game in which you take the last letter of a word and think of a new one beginning with that letter. You carry this on until you have an idea. This is to help thinking for developers I guess to sort through 'data data data' I think.
TH-cam's translator worked just fine for me.
All those anime’s I have watched paid off. Fully understood🙌🏾
I can't speak Japanese.
Chester Good thing there are subtitles
*****
I speak 2 fluently and have forgotten another, why? I dont see the relevance
***** What does that have to do with anything?
***** I'm on a cellular phone and CC doesn't display. I like to listen to TED as I go to bed.
Please tell me you people are not going to rely on Google translate as your guide to subtitles.
Just incase people haven't noticed this is TEDXTOKYO and they do speak Japanese in Tokyo. Don't just get angry and dislike because you can't understand. The content and the ideas in the video are still valid :( here's a link www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas/transcript?language=en
These are the times that make me glad I am learning the Japanese :)
Summary - He had a dream of making new kinds of toys... but he couldn't come up with any ideas. So instead, he used a game: Word chain. He used the word chain game to get many crazy ideas.... Neko (means cat), Kora (Cola), Raibu (live), Burashu (brush)... etc... He said he could come up with many ideas this way.
He is saying that RANDOM IDEAS can help you make SPECIFIC decisions... Don't focus on a goal too much, you'll get there anyways
I wonder if non-english speakers complain when English TED talks are given without a choice of subs? Instead of complaining, go to the TED website and watch it there, it has subs.
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silly www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas?language=en
Don't put an English title and description if there are no English subtitles. Put the title and description in Japanese.
Korewa hontouni omoshiroi. Data is used to predict the future, but ideas are used to create a more interesting future.
I don't have a problem with TED talks in other languages, but PLEASE make the title/description in Japanese as well! Why are they in English in the first place?
I liked this and liked it again because the youtube translation just made my day.
Nice - I could understand the talk just fine without subs. Watching all that anime has finally paid out!
I don't know if this thing of not posting the subs on TH-cam is just TED making a half-assed job or they just really need the trafic on their site.
I don't know what he says but I want that bubble toy.
Thank you very much sir for providing all the valuable information. And I look forward to use that information for creating something revolutionising.
Just turn on closed captions
Video with subtitles:
www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas#t-22668
If anyone cares the subtitles are on the TED website in English but it looks like people just like to complain.
"If anyone cares the subtitles are on the TED website in English"
Well, the important thing is that they are somewhere. No reason to put them *in the fucking video*.
I think i just learned how to write Trumpet in Japanese!
Would be nice to get english subtitles
there are subtitles on ted.com
Great talk, thanks.
The multi use pop bubble wrap much before the era of gopop/ popit at 2021
The popit was also in 1975
nice idea :) thank you
I wish they would have said in the description that it was Japanese
At the bottom of the video in the toolbar, press the button that says 'CC' to turn on captions for the video. Click on the gear (settings) button to toggle languages.
TED, please add captions
You can read the English subtitle
english subtitles please
You could have added, at the very least, english captioning.
I'm sure this is a great video. Unfortunately those auto-translated subtitles are not yet up to par.
Why the English title?
Interactive transcript from ted.com:
Hello. I'm a toy developer. With a dream of creating new toys that have never been seen before, I began working at a toy company nine years ago. When I first started working there, I proposed many new ideas to my boss every day. However, my boss always asked if I had the data to prove it would sell, and asked me to think of product development after analyzing market data. Data, data, data. So I analyzed the market data before thinking of a product. However, I was unable to think of anything new at that moment. (Laughter) My ideas were unoriginal. I wasn't getting any new ideas and I grew tired of thinking. It was so hard that I became this skinny. (Laughter) It's true. (Applause) You've all probably had similar experiences and felt this way too. Your boss was being difficult. The data was difficult. You become sick of thinking. Now, I throw out the data. It's my dream to create new toys. And now, instead of data, I'm using a game called Shiritori to come up with new ideas. I would like to introduce this method today. What is Shiritori? Take apple, elephant and trumpet, for example. It's a game where you take turns saying words that start with the last letter of the previous word. It's the same in Japanese and English. You can play Shiritori as you like: "neko, kora, raibu, burashi," etc, etc. [Cat, cola, concert, brush] Many random words will come out. You force those words to connect to what you want to think of and form ideas. In my case, for example, since I want to think of toys, what could a toy cat be? A cat that lands after doing a somersault from a high place? How about a toy with cola? A toy gun where you shoot cola and get someone soaking wet? (Laughter) Ridiculous ideas are okay. The key is to keep them flowing. The more ideas you produce, you're sure to come up with some good ones, too. A brush, for example. Can we make a toothbrush into a toy? We could combine a toothbrush with a guitar and -- (Music noises) -- you've got a toy you can play with while brushing your teeth. (Laughter) (Applause) Kids who don't like to brush their teeth might begin to like it. Can we make a hat into a toy? How about something like a roulette game, where you try the hat on one by one, and then, when someone puts it on, a scary alien breaks through the top screaming, "Ahh!" I wonder if there would be a demand for this at parties? Ideas that didn't come out while you stare at the data will start to come out. Actually, this bubble wrap, which is used to pack fragile objects, combined with a toy, made Mugen Pop Pop, a toy where you can pop the bubbles as much as you like. It was a big hit when it reached stores. Data had nothing to do with its success. Although it's only popping bubbles, it's a great way to kill time, so please pass this around amongst yourselves today and play with it. (Applause) Anyway, you continue to come up with useless ideas. Think up many trivial ideas, everyone. If you base your ideas on data analysis and know what you're aiming for, you'll end up trying too hard, and you can't produce new ideas. Even if you know what your aim is, think of ideas as freely as if you were throwing darts with your eyes closed. If you do this, you surely will hit somewhere near the center. At least one will. That's the one you should choose. If you do so, that idea will be in demand and, moreover, it will be brand new. That is how I think of new ideas. It doesn't have to be Shiritori; there are many different methods. You just have to choose words at random. You can flip through a dictionary and choose words at random. For example, you could look up two random letters and gather the results or go to the store and connect product names with what you want to think of. The point is to gather random words, not information from the category you're thinking for. If you do this, the ingredients for the association of ideas are collected and form connections that will produce many ideas. The greatest advantage to this method is the continuous flow of images. Because you're thinking of one word after another, the image of the previous word is still with you. That image will automatically be related with future words. Unconsciously, a concert will be connected to a brush and a roulette game will be connected to a hat. You wouldn't even realize it. You can come up with ideas that you wouldn't have thought of otherwise. This method is, of course, not just for toys. You can collect ideas for books, apps, events, and many other projects. I hope you all try this method. There are futures that are born from data. However, using this silly game called Shiritori, I look forward to the exciting future you will create, a future you couldn't even imagine. Thank you very much. (Applause)
Machine translating the auto-generated subtitles didn't get me anywhere..
Something about toys and cats?
I had a hard time following along with the subtitles:( i feel like it's only roughly translating to english so not all of it makes complete sense
How about English subtitles?
Datte bayo, Kuchiyose no Jutsu, Kagebunshin no Jutsu, "Tämääää", Nani?, Bakaru, Igzouuuu, Ikeeee, arigato hosaimas, hara haraaa, xD These are the words I know in japanese only ... ouh and BAKATE...
日本人のTED久々に見たわ。
It would be nice... if TED could tell us which language the video is in. Also, the youtube subtitles make no sense.
MrQwerty2524 Thats mechanical translation for you, its god awful. It will be another 20 years or so at this rate before asian languages can be mechanically translated into something similar to a human translation. Its doubly worse for this sort of translation where it isnt just reading text, but taking audio and putting that into sentences which it already screws up constantly, THEN trying to translate it with its poor translation softwareThere is an actual subbed version if you check the description, no idea why they didnt use that for the youtube release, pretty stupid really
No translation at all? Well done TED, just when I thought your standards couldn't sink lower than TEDx you do this.
Sadochrist The whole thing is translated.... man, I would expect this sort of nonsense from the viewers of some terrible top 10s channel or somesuch, but its disappointing to see this from the TED viewer base :/
Sadochrist
Check the description..... The whole thing has been translated...... Again I am disappointed.....
On the ted.com homepage they have English subtitles.
Can an english dubbed video be released for it?
will someone provide english sub for this please?
I tried translating the subtitles, but I didn't understand anything at all.
Just WOW!
International TED talks in different languages? Hells yes! We are a multicultural world after all. But without closed captioning, when the title itself is in English? O.o what's the point? At least add closed captioning so i can read along..
天 才 発 想 ☆ 無 限 プ チ プ チ
Byyyyyy the way - TED and so on are just Tools of PLUTOCRACY!!! Don´t lose yourself in it
Not comprehended!.
watch it here with subtitles: www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas
"Subtitles are not available for this video"
I understand the last letter first letter game, but I didn't get anything else.
One word, guys: Subtitles. You're welcome.
I hope someone subtitles it \:
Seriously no CC?
I can't express my anger for the stupidity of everyone in the comments saying "I don't speak japanese" THERE ARE SUBTITLES IN EVERY FREAKIN LANGAUNGE
sorry had to get that off my chest.
Might be an awesome vid, sadly I don't speak Japanese.
Might be an idea to translate it when you use an English title.
Sebastiaan van der Heide Check the description
StrykerTen
Why do you keep posting this when the link in the description just goes to a page advertising how to learn other languages and/or help them translate stuff? They should've linked here :www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas#t-4771
Or put the proper subtitles in the video
StrykerTen
I'll rephrase it... Why upload to TH-cam with an English title and then have a Japanese dub and sub.. Either have an English dub/sub or a Japanese title. Imo, this is just clickbait to get people to visit their site.
Kougeru
Click the "interactive transcript" button and you will get a full transcript of the talk in english
Sebastiaan van der Heide
Japanese learn english as a mandatory subject (though their spoken tends to be fairly poor) so anyone that can understand the talk should also be able to understand the title
It may well be an attempt to drive traffic to the website, I cant say for sure, though if it was I wouldnt call that clickbait, clickbait refers to something a bit different. Personally I think it is just done due to a lack of resources allocated for the youtube. Synching subs up to a video takes editing, specifically an editor that knows the language. They have videos from a range of different speakers in different languages so while possible, it would require work to standardize subs for all the videos. As for the title, having it all in english also makes indexing easier. It is nice for people to be able to find a talk they want to watch without having to learn to type foreign letters
Yes, they are all solvable problems clearly, the barrier to solving them is just the extra effort. Since the youtube uploads are an afterthought it doesnt seem like they want to put in any extra effort, they just want an archive for the videos. It sucks but eh, it is what it is. I am just happy they make these videos public for free at all given their purpose behind the talks has nothing to do with youtube
here's an original idea, Ted. give us subtitles that we can understand
Yeah, I totally speak japanese.
Anyone can help to translate?
Subtitles??
He read my mind. I follow that exact method to come up with new ideas.
of which field do you come up with ideas?
Ela fala: "Têta Cara!" 5:16
What did I miss not understanding the language?
Wh... Why is the title and description in English?...
Here is a translated/captioned version:
www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas
I hope this speaker doesn't take all our down votes personally. It wasn't his fault TED screwed up..
Shouldnt the video at least be subtitled?
I turned CC on this youtube video and the first word he speaks is "Konichiwa" (which means hello) and it's translated as "This part".
CC sucks.
Watch it on the TED website, folks: www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas?language=en#t-57403
... is my speech module broken?
yoghrut You need a new babelfish I suppose
The guy only speaks Japanese, that's fine. Subtitles guys, it's a really primitive technology.
Watch the video on the TED site for English subtitles
www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas?language=en
gonna save this video and will be back after i finish learning japanese.. :)
No subtitles?
Please, subtitles in English! Please!
Emiret Nájera .....There are english subtitles, you see the "close caption" button on the youtube player? You're welcome :)
Wow.... fascinating! Too bad I don't understand Japanese...
to what ends
Link with subtitle in English:
www.ted.com/talks/shimpei_takahashi_play_this_game_to_come_up_with_original_ideas/transcript?language=en
Well good thing I understand japanese.
NANI SORE?!?!
Wakarimashta?
One of the few Japanese phrases I know which translates roughly to "do you understand?"
Come on, TED editor. Please to pull honorable head from hindquarters.
B.b.b..but no subtitles...