Group items tagged Edceptional09 - EdCeptional

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Researchers created a special empty frame with highly responsive multi-touch capacity.
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Touch-sensitive frames have enabled surfaces to become interactive for years, but their size and responsiveness tend to be limited.
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The 28-inch ZeroTouch frame with scalloped edges can detect whatever moves around inside it. Fingertips, hands, arms, and even inanimate objects pass through an invisible two-dimensional optical web that tracks them. Put ZeroTouch on a computer screen and it turns into an interactive surface that can be manipulated with a stylus.
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One big advantage to ZeroTouch, the researchers say, is its affordability. The research prototype was made using commercially available sensors usually found in TV remote controls. Moeller said that the frame, which wasn't designed for mass-production, cost about $450 to construct.
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Moeller pointed out that the technology creates more possibilities for interaction than capacitive interfaces like the glass touch-screens on smart phones and laptops. The technology simply requires the user to break the light beams -- there's no force required to activate the sensor.
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A company that manufacturers secure personal cell phones for children is making a move to education, where it has introduced secure, internet-enabled mobile handheld devices for classroom use. School teachers or administrators can program the devices to allow (or disallow) calling or texting during certain times of the day, making them ideal for educational use, the company says
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“There is recognition that we can leverage capabilities and technologies … by providing mobile learning devices for students with controls for schools,”
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Data from Project Tomorrow’s 2010 Speak Up Survey indicate that 67 percent of parents support their child using mobile devices in the classroom for school work, although 65 percent of school administrators in the same survey strongly objected to letting students use their own mobile devices in school.
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Camera Mouse is a free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head.
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To use Camera Mouse you need a Windows 7, Vista, or XP computer and a webcam.
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developed by researchers at Boston College and Boston University
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PaperPhone is the world's first nextgen, thin film smartphone and interactive paper computer.
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Thinfilm sensors allow the phone to respond to bending of the screen to navigate pages in ebooks, play or pause mp3s, make phone calls, or navigate apps. A flexible wacom tablet allows users to draw on the screen with a pen as if it were a sheet of paper.
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For more information visit http://www.hml.queensu.ca/paperphone
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