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Let me start this post off with a little story.  I started working in IT about 5 years ago.  One of the downfalls of working with technology is that sometimes you think you can fix anything.  Well… I knew I should be backing up my data and made some paltry CD backups, but never really [...]

A friend of mine sent me a link to some research at Microsoft that would let you bend/twist/stretch or even squeeze your computer as an input. Sounds pretty sweet…
Not quite haptic, but still a step in the right direction with more natural input method’s!

The whole review deserves a look, but I especially like the part below.

This is so true. If we don’t get behind this device and push it, it may just fade into the background as something that was a great idea, but never got off the ground..

So a colleague of mine asked if I had come across any unique uses of the Wii… I had indeed and thought I would post my findings here as well. Here are the video’s. Isn’t it AMAZING! (Note: The first three are from Johnny Chung Lee at Carnegie Mellon University and the [...]

A couple of months ago I heard about a monkey that could control a computer with their brain.  Here is a video. 

Of course this required implanted electrical nodes in the monkey’s brain and months, if not years, of learning the monkey’s brain-waves and then mapping them. Not really possible for humans yet.
Then [...]

It’s Friday, so I am going to jump out on the edge a bit and write about something fun and out there… You may have seen the e-mail going around as of late about “AMAZING TECHNOLOGY FROM JAPAN” about a pen that projects a keyboard and a screen.  It includes this image.

It then goes [...]

Just read about a new Google Chat option that I think is pretty sweet.  You can now embed a widget on a blog that will allow ANYONE, even those without Google accounts to chat with you.  I have embedded one on my blog, so feel free to chat with me.
Uses in education?  [...]

I have been super excited about gOS as of late and installed if finally on my spare machine.  It is snappy and honestly pretty nice.  Anyway, I wanted to get Synergy working and though for a while there it wouldn’t… then I finally got it going.  YEAH!  Here is what I did!

Click on the desktop [...]

As a follow up from my post yesterday about MacWorld and the new MacBook Pro.  Here is a 60 second video of all the important announcements made yesterday.  Good for keeping up to date about what is going on.  Enjoy.

There are a lot of cool things you can do with databases!  Almost all of our modern webpages use some sort of database backened, and pretty much all good applications need one of some type or another.  Just like the WYSIWIG editor brought HTML editing to the masses, perhaps some tools of the future will bring [...]