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Learning: Computer Science unplugged
From Binary Numbers via Steiner Trees and Finite State Automata to the Turing Test - teaching people computer science without computers.
That’s what “Computer Science Unplugged” does. They use a series of activities to explain basic concepts of…
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Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale
Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:
“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”
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MS Multi-Touch Surface coming to an AT&T shop near you
Telecom giant AT&T is the first company worldwide that will use Microsoft Surface™ touch and device recognition technology in retail shops.
Starting from April 17 the multi-touch screens will be available in selected shops - to be more precise - shops in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco will be the first to get the devices. AT&T is planning to expand the deployment to more of its 2,200 shops throughout 2008…
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Advertising: Virtual Honda Motorcycle Testdrive
An interactive game that uses the motion-based hardware data-protection system of Apple notebooks to steer a virtual motorcycle around a course.
The application was designed by Raul Arantes and is available for download as a screensaver or standalone application.
More information and a video…
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Microsoft Health Future Vision
A video providing some insights into Microsoft’s vision on the future of health care. The video has recently been used by Bill Gates on conferences and is also shown to visitors of the “MS Executive Briefing Center”.
Outstanding pictures like always from that shop and some rather good ideas. But there’s still a long way to go - particular with the IS/IT features.
More information at the…
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Top 5 Tech Easter Eggs
Hidden little or not so little techfeatures in applications, videos or games aka Tech Easter Eggs are in season this week. So here’s a “link” to CNet’s Top 5 of tech Easter eggs…
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Environment: Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Environment campaigning organization Greenpeace has yesterday published the 7th issue of its “Guide to greener electronics” that ranks the top 18 manufactures of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles based on their policies how to handle toxic chemicals and recycling of their goods.
In the latest version Samsung and Toshiba are leading the group with 7.7 out of 10 possible points for their policies on toxic chemicals use, e-waste amd recycling. While Toshiba took the crown this time for…
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Research: Autodesk Design on Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch
You might have seen Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch screens in action on CNN when following the 2008 primaries and caucuses. And he demonstrated the device with Google Earth and some drawing programs.
The video below shows you the potential of Multi-Touch screens with…
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The 7 dirtiest IT jobs
There are glamorous jobs in every profession and then there are the other ones. But no organization could survive if the dirty jobs would not be done as well. Think of the guy who puts the trolleys together at your supermarket and you know what we are talking about. So which are those kind of jobs when it comes down to IT…
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Games / Multi-touch screens: The Fentix Cube
We came across the name Andrew Fentem a few times when we did research on multi-touch screens the last years. The Fentix Cube one of his most recent work is the first cubic multi-touchscreen games platform. In the video clip below the Fentix Cube has been programmed to emulate a Rubik’s cube puzzle…
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