February 8th, 2007 · Comments Off
Frontline: “Mitra decided to place a high-speed computer in the wall, connect it to the Internet, and watch who, if anyone, might use it. To his delight, curious children were immediately attracted to the strange new machine. “When they said, ‘Can we touch it?’” Mitra recalls, “I said, ‘It’s on your side of the wall.’ The rules say whatever is on their side, they can touch, so they touched it.”
Within minutes, children figured out how to point and click. By the end of the day they were browsing. “Given access and opportunity,” observes O’Connor, “the children quickly taught themselves the rudiments of computer literacy.”" (via)
De Hole-in-the-Wall website.
Tags: computers,education,india,internet,sugata mitra,video
January 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment
De langverwachte Apple iPhone is zojuist tijdens een fameuze Steve Jobs keynote eindelijk gepresenteerd. De iPhone is een mobiele telefoon, een widescreen video-ipod en een heuse computer in één apparaat. Het lijkt een prachtig, revolutionair apparaat te zijn.
Vergelijk nu het aandeel Apple versus de aandelen van handheldmakers Palm en RIM (Blackberry) ten tijde van Jobs keynote. (Live quote.)
De iPhone is helaas pas in het vierde kwartaal van 2007 in Europa verkrijgbaar. De eveneens vandaag gepresenteerde Apple Tv is gelukkig al in februari te koop, bestellingen worden vanaf heden geaccepteerd.
Steve Jobs’ keynote is hier te bekijken.
Tags: apple,computers,economics,ipod,music,telefoon,video
January 5th, 2007 · Comments Off
“She’s a power user, so the problems she faces, normal users face 30 to 90 days later”, WSJ.
Tags: computers,gina trapani,lifehacker,people,site,weblogs
January 5th, 2007 · Comments Off
‘He is the quintessential designer. He knows more than anyone what we will have in our hands in five years’, The Guardian.
Tags: apple,art,computers,design,ipod,people
January 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
“This computer has unlocked frame 200, out of the total 5000.” Elke bezoeker ontsluit een volgend frame van deze korte film over Alan Turing: No Animals Were Hurt. (Via Regine)
Tags: art,cinema,computers