“Be brave, use the new technology, because it’s going to change our lives so much.” These were Steve Wozniak’s words of advice to educators and students this past week. The co-founder of Apple spoke last week in Abilene, TX at Abilene Christian University’s Connected Summit about his views on education and technology. Technology and computers are more present than ever in our classrooms now with interactive whiteboards and laptops becoming more of the norm, but Steve Wozniak feels that we need to make technology in teaching more effective on younger students.
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Phononic Raises $10 Million For Thermoelectric Cooling, Lowers Your Energy Bills
Phononic Devices, a maker of thermoelectric coolers and generators, has just raised $10 million in a second round of financing. Although thermoelectric technology has been around for decades, the technology has always been expensive and inefficient. Phononic believes they have the solution to modularize the technology to more quickly integrate it into consumer electronics such as your laptop and consumer appliances such as your refrigerator.
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Nextreme Thermobility solution turns heat into power for mobile devices
A company called Nextreme has a really interesting mobile wireless power generation system that might one day find its way into the gadgets we all know and love. The solution is called Thermobility and it reminds me a bit of a CPU cooler from the inside of a computer.
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Huge Touchscreen at The University of Groningen
The University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, has converted a 3D theater into the world's largest touchscreen, used for teaching mathematics and computer science students interactivity. The screen has a curvature of 135 degrees and is transparent. Continue past the break to see the video and find out exactly how large this screen is.
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Blind man drives tech laden Ford Escape around race track alone
The National Federation for the Blind has announced that a blind man has driven a tech enhanced Ford Escape Hybrid around the famous Daytona International Speedway on the 1.5-mile road course section without the assistance of a sighted person. The demonstration used a Ford Escape Hybrid vehicle and was part of the festivities leading up to the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
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New Study Shows Kids Are Losing Touch with Reality, Focusing on a Virtual Existence
Yesterday, we reported that 7,000 students in Florida were currently enrolled in an e-learning classroom, where a teacher wasn't required, if not needed at all, and learned core lessons from a computer. We've seen how education departments trying to save money have turned to robots to help in any way they can. And, further back, we've seen how the iPad was being made part of lesson plans in some schools. The "negatives" of these changes are obvious, but new research may show us, bluntly, why this future may not be the best for our kids.
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CES 2011 is Over and I’m Still Alive
Before the Consumer Electronics Show kicked off in Las Vegas, I wrote up a piece about how I was excited, and equally uneasy, about the trip to Vegas and the impending show. It’s the biggest tech show around, and while it may not seem like it, there really is a lot to do. But, time marches on, and here we are a couple days after the show has officially wrapped up. So, I figured I’d tell you how it all went, and whether or not I’m looking forward to next year’s extravaganza.
Intel Paying NVIDIA Technology Licensing Fees of $1.5 BILLION DOLLARS
Today NVIDIA lets the world know that it's signed a six year cross-lisencing agreement with Intel that includes a payment to NVIDIA of an aggregate of $1.5 billion USD in licensing fees payable in five annual installments starting on January 18, 2011. This will not only be for the future use of NVIDIA's technology, it'll allow them (both companies) to agree to drop all outstanding legal disputes between the two of them. Now they can be good friends forever!
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My First CES, & Why I’m Scared Out of my Mind
Despite the fact that I’ve been writing about technology for a while now, I consider today a big day for me. Actually, I consider today a day that will be one that I remember for the rest of my life. Sorry for beating around the bush, but I imagine that the title of this column probably gave it away: this is my first visit to Las Vegas while the Consumer Electronics Show is in town. Why is today such a big day? Because today’s the day I’m taking my flight to Vegas, and teaming up with the rest of the SlashGear and Android Community crew, where we’re going to run around with a chaotic purpose to do just one thing: bring you images, stories, and videos of what’s happening at this year’s show. But, while we’re doing that, here’s the truth: I’m going to be scared out of my mind.
Trojan Condoms to participate in 2011 CES show
For a long time when you travel down to Vegas for CES there has been some sort of porn convention going on at the same time. The porn show and the CES exhibits have shared some of the same convention buildings before, which makes for a strange mix of geeks with some real skanks wondering about outside the convention halls. As the years go by it seems that the comingling of convention space is leading to some comingling of exhibitors as well.
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Japanese battery makes power from vibrations
When it comes to gadgets many of us tend to focus on the performance as far as how fast the thing operates. Perhaps more important that advances in outright performance such as how fast a phone operates are improvements in battery technology that will allow our gadgets to run longer. A cool new battery technology from Japan has surfaced that is able to make power from harnessing the energy in vibrations.
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Retiring the Air Force’s Centrifuge, then Building Another
The particular centrifuge you see in the image below this sentence is the only US Air Force-owned human centrifuge used for aircrew training since it was certified for use in 1988. It is housed at the Physiological Training Center at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico and has been since it's inception. On November 2nd, 2010, it spun it's last spin. The very last rider of this amusement park ride from heck was Capt. George Cannon, the 48th Operations Support Squadron Tactics Division chief from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, who pulled 9 Gz in prep for his assignment as an F-22 pilot at Langley AFB, Virginia.
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