Video: I’m a 21st century learner

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills.

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Electronic Paper: LG Philips demonstrates color A4-size E-Paper

LG Philips LCD, the world’s second largest liquid crystal display maker, has developed the first A4-sized color electronic-paper.

The flexible display panel which is 35.9cm across its diagonal and just 0.3 millimeters thin can display up to 4096 colors. The company says that the images displayed are comparable in quality to printed pages. The e-paper panel only uses power when the image changes on the display.

…Like the black and white flexible display, the color version uses a substrate that arranges Thin-Film Transistors (TFT) on metal foil rather than glass, allowing it to recover its original shape after being bent. This model includes a color filter coated onto the plastic substrate, allowing it to display color images.

LG.Philips LCD’s use of metal foil and plastic substrate rather than glass substrate makes…
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Video: Mobile devices of the future

Intel has just recently shown its new generation of a “mobile (UMPC) platform” at the IDF in China that was only briefly demonstrated at the CeBIT earlier this year.

The new “handheld PCs” available later this year will be far more powerful than the current devices but the major steps forward by size, processing power, battery life and displays are expected for 2008.

At the same time Intel introduced its vision of future devices with the video below. Great ideas, we really liked the watch-like device…
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Advertising: Career in Computer Science

Besides the “cool” skateboarder meeting girl and having a good time plot this video is full of great and potentially not so far away gadgets. MS Research is using the short film to get young people interested in a career in Computer Science. We really liked the flying personal robot but what is awesome and most likely to happen very soon is the data transfer visualization on the virtual computer table in the cafe…

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Video: All’s Fair at the Fair

Watch this great 1938 cartoon by the Fleischer Brothers to see how people have seen the future to come at that time. Great 8min animation movie…

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Electronic Paper: First mobile device with rollable display available in 2007

We have recently reported that rollable display devices are “getting ready for mass markets”. This week “Polymer Vision” and Telecom Italia announced an agreement that they will together develop and market the first available mobile device with such a display. The Cellular-Book, as the device is called, is expected to be available to consumers during 2007. The device will be presented to the Industry at…

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FutureTech: Peugeot announces Design Contest Finalists

French car manufacturer Peugeot has announced the top 10 finalists of its “annual design contest”. Great art work and ideas. More information at…

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Electronic Paper: Getting ready for mass production

We have introduced Plastic Logic electronic paper products last year in “another article” and just recently they have received a USD 100 Million cash injection from investors to build a factory for mass production in Dresden, Germany until the end of 2007. On the same day competitor and Phillips incubator Polymer Vision announced in a “press release” that it will become an independent company - a first step to raise new capital expected to be in the region of about USD 100 Million as well. In the same press release Polymer Vision said that it is planning to start volume production of its 5-inch monochrome rollable display during 2007 in cooperation with existing partners…

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Research: What people actually need and want from technology

Technology-related products and services will increasingly be shaped by 12 underlying principles, or “technology values”. These values - such as simplicity, efficiency, and personalization - represent the characteristics that consumers will look for in products, services, and technologies over the next 10 to 15 years. This is the conclusion of a new study from the [...]

Electronic Paper: One step closer with Plastic Logic’s new display

UK based Plastic Logic today announced its latest 150dpi flexible display technology. It is demonstrating it this week during the Plastic Electronics conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

Electronic Paper displays are displays with paper-like high contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption, and are thin and flexible together with being much lighter compared to today’s screens. They [...]