Teacher Tool

Making Dynamic Paper

Sifteo

There are three cubes in the basic game set. They interact with each other to make a game. The games may be changed on the cubes and used again for the new game.

Listen to Your Buds

This is an educational campaign to help make parents, teachers and children aware of the importance of taking care of their hearing, and giving ways of using personal audio technology safely. Click on the title to go to their site.

Scratch Input

Scratch Input allows exiting walls or furniture to become input devices for your computer. It is specifically meant for mobile device users, the elderly and people with mobility challenges.

Polaroid GL30

Takes photos that you can share by printing immediately or uploading online. It has somewhat the same shape as the original model. But this one may also be stood up to be used as a digital photo frame. It Aldo has a number of filters and borders that can be applied to the images.

Polarez GL20

Polarez glasses capture or upload images that can be displayed on the glasses' screens for other to see.

Polaprinter GL10

This is an instant mobile printer to connect cellphones, cameras or laptops via Bluetooth or a direct connection

eCoupled is what I'm waiting for...

A quick overview of some of the good stuff from eCoupled.

Want to know what's in your cupboard? What you need to buy more of? Want to cook in the package? Check out eCoupled's new technology, soon to be available. Can you imagine if our libraries were set up this way. The books would know if they were off the shelf, or out of order!




You can cook anywhere you install one of the small contact points. Charge and run devices wirelessly.




Charge your electric car wirelessly. If all parking lots had these (not sure about the snow in Maine though), we could be charging as we grocery shop, go to the dentist, etc.

Tablets and Pads

I'd love to see us use some tablets or pads at school.
The Eee Pad MeMO by Asus is a tablet and a phone combined that will be coming out this summer. The device comes with a Bluetooth headset with mic for receiving calls. It has a 7 inch touch screen and two cameras.  One camera is on the front (1.2 megapixel) for making video calls and one on the back (5 megapixel) with an LED flash. It also has a stylus for taking notes and drawing in the included apps, Media Note and Painter.




The Motorola Xoom Tablet is another good tablet soon to be released...maybe in April.  It is larger with a 10.1 in. screen. It has 32 GB of internal memory and a great battery that will last for up to 10 hours. Again, it has a 5 megapixel camera on the back and a 2 megapixel camera on the front for video calls.  When it is released it will be 3G with Verizon, but soon to handle 4G networks.


And then there's the Toshiba:

LG Display Video

Multiple Displays Video

Projectors

Technology vs Magic

I like this quote...

Floor to Ceiling Display

Made of thousands of color changing lights, you get a display that shows video, but you can look through, too.

XBox Avatar Kinect

Just think about the possibilities...
Xbox Live subscribers can interact with up to 15 friends and family using their Kinect avatars and motion control.  Some ideas?  Any time you need to get people together that aren't in the same room.  Meetings, collaborative groups, how about interviewing a famous person avatar, a book character?  Those are just a few ideas without thinking too hard.

Maps of CES

This show was too big to see everything. There were 4 separate maps and 4 bus stops depending on what you wanted to attend. Lots of walking. Lots of aspirin.

Preventing Childhood Obesity Through Technology

http://www.hopsports.com/

OldPhones

These handsets plug into your speaker jack in your cell phone to make calls. There also was a neat Bluetooth, charging base with handset that converts to speakers that will be out soon. Not permissible to take pictures of it, so I'll just have to remember what it looked like. That will be a problem.

This would be fun!

Tough to keep your eyes on the road with all the video displays!

Nice Wheels

Pretty fancy, but won't go in an inch of snow...