Technology

3-D Learning- Acquire A Second Language By Virtually Living In Another Country

Despite some of the more outrageous claims to the contrary, SecondLife, while an abstract 3-D world, is not actually a teaching platform.   It had its moment and devolved rather quickly into another marketing tool for companies but conceptually it provides ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2010 - 10:38am

Clever use of technology

Here’s an amusing little device that Eric Taub writes about in the New York Times: All of this is why a new product from Zomm may wind up hitting a nerve. A small electronic disc that fits on a key ring, the product, also called the Zomm, connects to a ph ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jun 29 2010 - 6:03am

Getting a charge out of your batteries

Here’s another cute gadget, shown to us in the NY Times Gadgetwise blog: Size AA rechargeable batteries with built-in USB plugs, so you can plug the batteries directly into your computer to charge them. And here they are on Amazon. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 1 2010 - 6:00am

Losing Our Grip On Biotechnology

Biotechnology in the last decade has been continually driven forward by the relentless economical desires of the ever-growing biopharmaceutical industry, creating innovative technologies that have gradually taken root in our society and have transformed ou ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Jul 2 2010 - 1:18am

Can Electric Cars Be Made Economically Competitive? The Magnet Answer

By optimizing magnets, hybrid and electric cars can be made economically competitive, according to a research project currently underway at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria.   Their project is seeking to find the ideal composition and s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2010 - 8:01am

Most See Internet As "Positive Social Force"

According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University, the Internet will do more social good than harm over the next decade. I n fact, 85% of the 895 In ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 6 2010 - 10:11pm

CrossCheck- Plagiarism Police On The Scene

Watch out, Jayson Blair- there's a new sheriff in town, and it's going to cross-reference your work to make sure you haven't plagiarized your material. Plagiarism, using others' work but putting it forth as your own, has been a problem ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 7 2010 - 4:28pm

Getting intimate with the iPhone

Unless you’ve been on Mars since the release of the iPhone 4, you surely know that they’ve had problems with the phone’s signal. The difficulty has been blamed on user error (“Dude, you’re holding it wrong! ”), the AT&T network, a software error (they ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 16 2010 - 6:04am

Picking Winners: Is Government Technology Strategy Good Or Bad? (Or, Say “Thai Baht” Three Times Really Fast)

The Portland International Conferences on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) occur in Oregon in odd-numbered years, and in diverse locales in the even. I write from lovely Phuket island in southern Thailand, as I listen to bird- and cricket ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 3 2010 - 10:25am

On learning your search preferences

New Scientist reports on experiments that give search engines metadata about the person searching, with the hope of increasing the relevance of search results. It seems that some of it’s promising, though some relies a lot on, say, all young white males b ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 27 2010 - 5:00am