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What latest gadgets and gizmos are going to change your classroom in 2013? It's hard to know exactly what will catch on and what won't, but the following list showcases some of the emerging new technologies, software, and platforms available. With their innovation and practicality, many of these are poised to enter the classroom and change the way students and teachers learn permanently.

"Be forewarned, then: The Fourth Dimension is an app which will mess with your head. Deliberately. Even though the aim is education and expansion of knowledge, it will still mess with your head. You will emerge from the experience only fractionally the wiser, and quite a lot more confused than you were at the beginning. Don't worry, this is perfectly normal. The aim of the app is to explain four spatial dimensions to creatures like us who live in a stubbornly three dimensional universe."

"Many parts of the U.S. are dealing with unusually high temperatures, storms, fires, and the occasional blackout. With this in mind, we offer seven apps that could make your summer much safer in times of emergency."

"Screen sharing is not only limited to desktops and laptops for now with the advance of mobile technology there emerged some great apps that allow users to do the same on their smartphones and tablets. If we take iPad as an example, there are a variety of such apps in itunes market some are free and others are pro."

"Now digital storytelling has gone mobile - so get ready for the many varied ways students find themselves expressing their world. Here are a number of iPad / iPhone apps that provide tools for these emerging mobile devices enabling students to participate in the long and rich history of storytelling."

The saga between Google Voice, Apple and AT&T continues. Today, a chat transcript emerged that seems to pin blame on AT&T for the application being rejected from the App Store.

As the walls that divide television, computers, and cell phones crumble, it is increasingly clear that any device's fate will be decided by its ability to gather and present information on demand. And the cell phone has emerged, for now at least, as the single most important device in the global marketplace. Nokia has never managed to leverage its position as a world leader in handset sales to achieve similar dominance in the United States, where it has only 7% market share

"The iPad Classroom "Following the iPad's emergence in the elementary classroom" Created and curated by Dave Brown Dave Brown curates this topic from blogs, tweets, videos and much more: find out how!"

Good write up of Apple TV

a leader in customizable, patented 2-way GPS Personal Location Services (PLS) solutions, and theKalika Group, one of Nepal's largest and most respected business conglomerates, have entered into a binding exclusive agreement which provides for the deployment of GTX Corp's proprietary GPS technologies and product line to the territories of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan - a vast marketplace comprising of an emerging, dynamic economy with a combined population of over 1.5 billion.