# Nick Sears demos the Orb

Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short, cool tale of invention.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2008
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/NickSears_2007)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/NickSears_2007?play=1)