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Looking at the safety aspect of humans with machines is important.

Responsible use of electronic devices is going to become increasingly important because today cell phone is a distraction --- tomorrow it will be in car movies or gps devices. It is the behavior that is the problem and proper focus on real life has to be something we emphasize as we discuss the proper relationship of humans with "gadgets."

His suspicions grew further when he noticed a small, flat, circular object hidden under the rim of his new bin. About the size of a 10-cent coin, it had the letters "TI-RFid" embossed on it.

RFid technology attached to garbage bins to collect data about home owners re-cycling efforts or lack of. (Australia)

A humanoid robot will conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra next month

Clearflow is an ambitious effort to add AI machine-learning techniques to the complex problem of predicting traffic congestion.

Great website using Geocaching and ARG's.

We talked about Alternate Reality and a wealth of gaming tonight on Wow2 (a show the gaming as pedagogical platform group is going to need to listen to.) This is an online ARG (alternate reality game) for educators and uses Geocaching -- we're planning an upcoming show on geocaching on Wow2 -- if you know of any educators doing great work, let me know.

Rock 'n' roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game.

First rock band to release a single through the gaming industry. Video games may be a new source of revenue for the music industry. Rock Band allows gamers to play along to songs with controllers shaped like a guitar, drum set or microphone

Envisioning microsoft surface application in libraries -- I think that there are exciting opportunities here -- we'll have smart tables instead of computers -- every flat surface being its own computing device as computers merge with everything around us.

To see how far we've come, look at this game that we used to play on our computers from about 15-20 years a go. I LOVED this game! Look at how human machine communications has evolved as have games evolved.

Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his original proposal for a better kind of linked information system.