skateboardsforschools is a positive resource that provides "teachers and their students with a new and exciting alternative to the old standard Wood Shop and Tech Ed. Projects". They show how to make a DIY skateboard. As the motto says "We're talkin' Skateboards". The fact is, kids have always wa...
Last minute speaker at LIFT06
I finally managed to have the last minute speaker for LIFT06: it's going to be the US sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling. He will talk about spimes and the internet of things. Technorati Tags: lift, lift06 ...
Old school cyberspace embed its own architecture
Alex Pang is working on the very intriguing topic of "The End of Cyberspace" (there is a short piece about it in Wired today). In one of his blogposts, he's wondering about the names that we given to cyberspace (the ultimate goal is to find a new concept for what is now cyberspace: ubicomp...). Con...
Latour's research inscriptions
Relying on Latour's sociology of science (+ others such as Latour and Woolgar, 1991; Callon, Law, and Rip, 1986), inscriptions (journal articles, conference papers, presentations, grant proposals, and patents, images of many sorts, databases...) are the core of scientific/knowledge work. Inscriptio...
Kids and robots learning to play hide and seek
The following paper describes a field study about Children and robots learning to play hide and seek (by a research group from the Naval Research Laboratory). How do children learn how to play hide and seek? At age 3-4, children do not typically have perspective taking ability, so their hiding abil...
A TelCo ran by nuns
General Management - Technical Services Vatican Telephone Service: The Telephone Service of the Vatican State is responsible for the study, installation and management of the telecommunications infrastructure of the Vatican. It has been run since 5th July 1948 by devout members of the religious ord...
TOBIDAC!D: Foldable stereoscopic viewer for PSP
Via Scott Fisher, a stereoscopic viewer for PSP (meant to be used with Metal Gear Solid Ac!d 2: It’s a 3D image viewing system that comes packaged with AC!D2. It goes beyond pseudo-3D images of polygon games to generate solid three-dimensional graphics. Just place SOL!D EYE TOBIDAC!D over the LCD...
RSS Ideas for educators
(Via) Once in a while I check what's happening in the field of educational technologies because it's a very good field of application for IT and I stumbled across this very good resource: 50+ RSS Ideas for Educators, a work in progress paper by Quentin D'Souza. Apart from the obvious "conduct web s...
Drucker on 'tribes'
During the coffee-break this morning, I serendipitiously ran across a printed paper of Peter Drucker, in which I found this quote that I like. To a journalist who asked "What will the organization of tomorrow and the executive of tomorrow look like?" "You'd better stop studying the history of scien...
Light-powered hearing aid
Medicat gizmos are sometimes very intriguing. This light-powered hearing aid is impressive for that matter. It's developed and manufactured by Godisa Technologies, a company from Botswana. We manufacture three hearing aids; these use regular zinc air or rechargeable batteries. We've developed a so...