What a great toy, I want one. For the boys of course. http://www.makeitmoovit.com/en/
Category / Technology
This is a preview of a new physics game in development. It just won an award from the Independent Games Festival. I love these simple and thoughtful games that use computing and technology to challenge you in ways that other modes of interaction could never achieve. In the same vein, I just finished playing Portal, […]
So neat and relatively simple.
Most altruistic + technology ideas stay regulated to science-fiction and never become reality. This is a wonderful exception. The One Laptop per Child organization, founded by Nicholas Negroponte, wants to get computers into the hands of the poorest children. They have developed a laptop that you can buy in November for $188. Actually, you have […]
MIT is publishing its entire curriculum to the Internet, available to everyone, for free. And they aren’t the only educator doing it. MIT reports that most of the people using the free courses are from outside the United States, which points to a huge problem in this country: Even if you make it free, Americans […]
Here is a fun site that is easy to use for checking your Internet access speeds. http://speedtest.net/index.php
The best feature of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone is the multi-touch display. Here are a few videos of the same multi-touch technology, developed and demonstrated by Jeff Han from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, on larger displays and computers. We’ve taken the the mouse/pointer/keyboard paradigm pretty far, but its getting stale. I’m looking […]
The Internet is getting more powerful and more pervasive every day. “Web 2.0” is a term that points to a wide range of technical and structural developments that are allowing for a more user friendly, participatory, and highly integrated ecosystem. Watch this effective 5 minute clip that highlights one of the most powerful aspects of […]
I get lots of questions from friends and family about PCs, software and technology in general. Lately I’ve been recommending software and have promised many people that I’d send them an email with links to download the goods. Well, instead of sending out emails every time someone asks, I’ll direct them to this post. So […]
