The startled children told them that they should turn on their headlights.

And there he is, a little bush baby on caught in the headlights there.

The animal will react by freezing, sort of like a deer in the headlights.

And this fish, which is one of my favorites, has three headlights on each side of its head.

It's got a fan, it's got headlights for warmth, it's got door chimes for alarm it runs off a car battery.

And then when it's not using it, it actually can roll it down into its head just like the headlights on your Lamborghini.

So, the farmers go out at night with heavily armed jeeps, and shine the headlights, and anything that doesn't look like a sheep, you shoot.

Cars have LED based headlights, LED based back lights, and cars can communicate with each other and prevent accidents in the way that they exchange information.

So he's developing strategies so the vehicle can communicate with pedestrians, so So the headlights are eyeballs, the pupils can dilate, we have directional audio, we can throw sound directly at people.

Obama, however, inherited an economy in freefall, and could not possibly have turned things around in the short time since his inauguration. President Bush seemed like a deer caught in the headlights paralyzed, unable to do almost anything for months before he left office.

President Barack Obama, elected with a great deal of goodwill and hope in 2008, is now caught like a deer in the headlights. He knows that what the economy needs in the short run is different from what needs to be done to manage public debt in the long run, but he is unable to provide decisive leadership.

As someone who has spent his entire career trying to be invisible, standing in front of an audience is a cross between an out of body experience and a deer caught in the headlights, so please forgive me for violating one of the TED commandments by relying on words on paper, and I only hope I'm not struck by lightning bolts before I'm done.