was just talking abt eBooks in the 2010 trends two days’ ago, and i found this piece of video via richarson’s post:
nice? (:
nice! 🙂
Musical instrument on the move
Learning and playing a musical instrument is one thing, having access to one or carrying one around so that you can play it anytime anywhere is another thing, especially when the instrument you learnt is a heavy/bulky one.
Once applications live in the cloud, the key to success will be harnessing network effects so that those applications literally get better the more people use them … Today we see that applications are being driven by sensors, not just by people typing on keyboards. They are becoming platforms for collective action, not just collective intelligence. — extracted from Webcast: Web Squared page
Was scanning an article “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On” written by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle for the recent web2.0 summit, and I was attracted by the Smule’s Ocarina application for iPhone. Perhaps I’m losing touch with some of the latest technological advancements without owning the phone myself, but it appears that music players can carry a synthesiser that can emulate their favourite musical instrument while moving. How conveneient (: (of cos here assumed you owned an iPhone). Check out the video below, AND do read O’Reilly and Battelle’s article to get a glimpse of the world we’re advancing into, if we are not already into it (:
one screen’s not enough?
we’re so used to laptop/notebook carrying only one screen while we need to multi-task 10-20 windows cluttered all in one screen. this intel’s FOUR-screen laptop, if ever leaves prototype for production, can very well change the way we work and learn. what opportunities would such a device present for learning and teaching? perhaps on screen for pm and online status, one screen for personal note/scribble/doodle, one screen for discussion topics, and the main screen for the (20-3) windows that’s left? (: cant wait till the day when i can get my hands on one of these 😮
Stackable projector(s)
ever had the problem of having your projector set up fail you when you most need it? or pple working past the projection and your projection’s momentarily blacked out on-screen? check out the Easy Stacking function by NEC. truly an innovation (:
best suited for IWB setup in the classroom, teacher/student will no longer block the view on the IWB!
Ready to buy a SSD for storage?
as solid-state drives’ price dropping and getting more n more popular, some of us may be tempted to buy one for use as SSD promises performance and less heat compared to our usual HDDs. if so, you may be interested to find out more abt SSDs in this report by Nikkei Electronics Asia published early last month. even if u’re not buying one soon, this article can give u a good overview of wat SSD is all abt (: