I learned about the Nokia Morph concept phone couple months ago and was very impressed with Nokia’s vision for how handsets might evolve.  The Morph concept is a collaboration project of Nokia Research Center (NRC) and Cambridge Nanoscience...
Topics: Morph, Nanoscience, Nokia, research, technology

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I recently found an interesting and useful Web-based printing application called PrintWhatYouLike. Instead of printing out an entire Web page, PrintWhatYouLike lets you remove elements from the page that you don’t want to print, set the page to a...
Topics: print, tools, web, Web 2.0

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Multi-touch technology is getting popular since it was adopted by the iPhone couple years ago.  However, multi-technology is nothing new and it has a long history.  According to Wikipedia, multi-touch technology started in 1982 when Nimish Mehta at the.
Topics: display, input, interaction, technology, touch

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Schools today face a serious challenge of preparing students with 21st century skills.  Since the report “A National at Risk” published by National Commission on Excellence in Education in 1983, many similar definitions from different...
Topics: 21st century, education, Educational Research, learning, literacy, research, skills, technology

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I came across the third and latest version of the popular “Shift Happens/Did You Know?” video by Karl Fisch and Scot McLeod.  I have enjoyed viewing the previous versions and thought it is a great educational video for students.  This...
Topics: globalization, Web 2.0

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