These new and “improved” five-sided oranges from Japan look weird, taste great and they won’t roll off your table. Even more awesome, an alternate way of reading the kanji characters used to describe them makes these freaky fruits great good luck gifts for anxious students.
All too often, computers in the classroom are treated like typewriters or filing cabinets — just a convenient place to type and store information. For teachers and students interested in creating better classrooms by engaging with technology in a deeper way, Writing Inventions: Identities, Technologies, Pedagogies by Scott Lloyd DeWitt is a must-read. In this book, Dewitt details why — and how — to use the web to transform learning.
The way VW’s gorgeous new Beetle Dune Concept turned heads at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, you’d have thought a bikini-clad Kate Upton was on the reviewing stand. Unlike the pneumatic supermodel, however, a production version of Volkswagen’s reimagined Baja Bug may soon show up on the streets of your town.
3D Technology and GrabCAD are looking for talented exercise equipment
designers to develop an attachment for Smith machines to make donkey
calf raises comfortable, safe and easy to perform. Share your fitness
prowess, and you can earn up to $1,000!
Automotive technology is rapidly changing, and who hasn’t looked around at the cars on the streets and wondered: what will they think of next? Of course, the wish is that the next generation of cars will be fuel-efficient, low emissions, and fun to drive. Here are a few environmentally friendly cars of the near future that just might fit those parameters.
Pet parents will soon have another way to communicate with their dogs and cats while they’re at work or out of town. PetChatz, which will ship in just a few months, is now pre-selling its Greet & Treat Videophone – imagine Skype that delivers treats and scents!
Many of the distant planets researchers want to know more about aren’t really great for wheeled probes. In order to pore over the surface of thes worlds, scientists have to get a little creative. Take researchers in London, for example, who just developed a robot based on the superhero Spider-Man.
Hey inventors! How would you like to innovate the classic three wheeled
body-powered scooter for Razor USA, Siemens, Luxion and GrabCAD? There’s
cash and prizes if you impress the iconic scooter makers!
I have mixed feelings about taking tests to see if I have the beginnings
of Alzheimer’s disease or some other age-related cognitive problem. The
thought scares me to death – like most of you, probably. But
rationally, I know it’s best to learn about it early if you have it.
This particular test, the Self-Administered Gerocognitive Exam (SAGE),
was so readily available I couldn’t not take it, especially if I wanted to share it with you….
Diabetes affects 1 in 19 people, that’s 26 million people in the US, and patients need to be in
constant control of their blood sugar levels, otherwise they risk
damage to their eyes, kidneys or heart. Methods to measure blood glucose are painful (finger pricking and Ditto or Glooko), or invasive (constant glucose monitors, CGMs). Hopefully they will soon be replaced by Google’s Smart Lens.
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