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"February 11, 2009 - Here is the review for the new Amazon Kindle 2, Amazon's new e-book reader and the successor to the highly popular Amazon Kindle. This new e-book reader from Amazon is more lightweight, features more shades of grey and has a slightly different interface, better battery life and more memory for storing e-books. "

"Mobile is the next wave in technology. Cellphones text faster than email, spread video faster than cameras, and webcast in real time. They take assignments, document work, translate and podcast. Mobile interfaces with Web 2.0. Best of all: teachers and students carry them already! Learn what we can adapt to achieve educational goals."

"Using an interactive air pollution simulator to control the air quality in Smog City 2, you can see how individual choices, environmental factors, and different types of land use affect air pollution. In Smog City 2 you are in charge - so whether your visit is a healthy or unhealthy experience depends on the decisions that you make."

"March 21, 2009 - This is a Cnet Tv Prizefight in high-definition between the Amazon Kindle 2 and the Sony Reader PRS-700."

Lesson 2: Supply Chain of a Laptop can be adapted for ITGS>

The da Vinci, a surgical robot costing up to $2.6 million, gives surgeons powerful new abilities in the operating room. But while some doctors tout shorter recovery times for patients and decreased risk of complications, others warn of high costs and the lack of a national training standard.

Censorship or paranoia?

How the iPad is becoming an assistive device. In fact, I have a friend who is failing from ALS. She uses her iPad to type and have the iPad read out what she wants to say.

"Fuzzy logic -- mimicing human systems: MATRIX 1/2 " video

The use of virtual reality applications to train soldiers heading to Iraq and Afghanistan.

"About 6,000 students in Norway are doing exams on their laptops in a trial that could soon be rolled out across the country."

This looks interesting also for Paper 2. Perhaps you could add a tag 6.0_paper_2 Madeleine

Complex but possible useful for background reading. "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general. "