Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Farewell to the One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) project

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XO-1 laptop (Source: OLPC news) The OLPC website officially reports that "OLPC is dead" and so is the development  of the  ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Inaccuracies in scientific illustrations

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Michael Stevens provides a brief overview of some inaccuracies found in common science illustrations (including several historic ones).
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Seamless document exchange between devices with Infinite Surface

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Infinite Surface setup Startup company Infinite Surface offers promising software that allows seamless exchange between multiple devic...

What's new about MOOCs? Insights from the eMOOC conference 2014

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The MOOC 2014  conference took place at  EPFL  in Lausanne Switzerland in February 2014. The catchphrase of the conference was "All ...

Tangible user interface of the future

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MIT Media Lab presents a prototype for a tangible user interface. A Microsoft Kinect and a camera detect a user's hand movements and rep...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Creationist education in Swiss private schools

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A newspaper article published in "Le Temps" reports that three private schools in the French-speaking part of Switzerland are ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Touch-screen interface that lets you "feel" objects

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Topographic maps could really let you feel their topography.  Image: Disney Research We perceive variations in an object’s surface by de...