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Popular nerd site, Gizmodo, is offering online electronics courses for their readers. Wish this had been around when I had to take electronics courses in college. Sometimes, simple videos that you can play and replay can do so much more for you than a PhD clad professor and a book.

Top Ten Back-to-School iPhone apps. Check out the new free Kindle app.

As more and more educational apps hit the market, will schools reconsider allowing hand-held devices in schools?

An example of an AR application for Google Android phones that takes advantage of the phone's video camera and GPS capabilities.

"It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we've all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft's astonishing take on the tablet." Looks like we might be closer than we thought to that techno-future in that video....

Augmented reality, For RLZ!

One potential use of augmented reality: To frighten and confuse innocent bystanders

Augmented Reality continues to seep into reality: "Layar, the first camera-based AR app to really blow us (or anyone) away, has quietly slipped into the App Store. As with the Android version, the app overlays all kinds of information onto a live view of the world around you."

Layar, the first phone-based AR web browser on the market, has come to the iPhone 3GS.

Layar, the first phone-based AR web browser on the market, has come to the iPhone 3GS ... expect me to be wandering the Harvard campus seeing what this app can do ...

During our augmented reality online discussion, I had mentioned the usefulness of creating an augmented reality application for those wishing to do mechanical work on their vehicles. The marines are nowing making use of an augmented reality application that does just that.

Comparison of how children interacted with machines 100 years ago compared to today.

A great example of a new immersive interface that Microsoft is developing

Short and sweet video about improving high school physics.

Amazon announced its Whispercast technology to provide centralized control over content distribution, social media, password protection, and document sharing.

This is a good example of how a product is trying to make you feel more immersed by placing virtual objects in the real world instead of a completely virtual world.

This could possibly put the 'fun' back in 'functional' - if students are operating within the "real world" on sincere applications, they may generalize their skills better. I'm all for perceiving my world in 50% cartoon ;o)

Cool use of how you can use projectors and a framed point of view to make a viewer believe someone is immersed in an alternate world.

MakerBot just came out with its second generation or 3D printers--MakerBot Replicator 2.

Interesting example of one way technology can enhance medical teaching.

Hi Ellen, I think this is an interesting topic. You may be interested in Piskorski's work at HBS. Professor Piskorski's current research examines why and how people use on-line social networks, both in the US and abroad. Using extensive fieldwork and large scale empirical analyses, he constructed theories of social failures and networks as covers which allow us to understand numerous facets of people's on-line behaviors. http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=10663

Smart phones for the "other half"