Trendy 2011: Tablets Up, 3D Down
Industry watchers like nothing better than to observe as trends come and go. A site that I love, The Crystal Ball Society, started by Jesse Schell, lets you record these predictions for posterity. A good thing, since most of us will forget our own predictions in matter of days. Sometimes predications are a matter of WHEN not IF. As mom …
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KAPi Awards Find the Best in Kids Tech
An Expert Panel’s Look at the Best of the Year Weird. Pricey. Those words best describe the kid’s toy industry as we head towards the holiday. Analysts are saying that there’s no single standout gotta-have-it product but high-tech toys are high on everyone’s list. Preschoolers are getting $400 iPads; tweens getting their own iPod Touch. Some of most sought after …
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Vita PlayStation
I learned to be a gamer with a proverbial gun to my head. If you’re going to be in the tech business, you’d better learn your way around a gaming machine. But nothing prepared me for my hands-on session with Vita yesterday. Vita is SONY’s newest hand held gaming device. What’s unique about it is the variety of play experiences …
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The Future of Higher Ed?
Salman Khan is the brain behind the Khan Academy, a series of simple video lessons that teach math, physics, astronomy and more. Currently, his collection of 700 videos has over 1 million users. And Khan knows a great deal about the users educational stumbling blocks and successes. Inside Higher Ed has a good summary of what Khan is doing today and what …
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The 11th Annual Last Gadget Standing Preview
What do a baby stroller, an iPhone controlled sphere, an innovative camera, and a new gaming machine have in common? They’re all in the running in the final weeks of the Last Gadget Standing competition. Last Gadget takes its cue from the exhaustion of trekking through miles of CES trade show floors to find the winning products. In a large …
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Spotting Future Stars
In 1997, I had the pleasure of being the Editor in Chief of FamilyPC Magazine (now defunct). When we did a story on “web wizards” – young kids who were doing cool things with PCs – we chose Vinny Pasceri, then the webmaster of Saychem High School in Long Island. Pasceri and his team built their high school’s website using …
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