Category: Education & Innovation
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NetHui 2011
So – the Net Hui is on at Aucklands Sky City Convention Center and, given the line up of people and the subjects being discussed it’s something I decided I need to be at so, startig tomorrow – I am taking 3 days of Annual leave and heading off to the conference as “Rob – […]
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Chrysalis Cam – Using Open Source to Open Minds
The kids in Room 3 had a problem, all of the caterpillars that went into the pupa stage of their metamorphosis were emerging when the students were out of the classroom. The solution was to setup a laptop with a web camera programmed to take a snapshot of a waiting chrysalis once every minute. These […]
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Visualising Public Data – Auckland Transport
Chris McDowall is a very, very clever person. In addition to all the other cool stuff he’s done in the NZ data space, he has just released this post on taking the Maxx public transport data feed of movements over a day, and plotting it out on a map. It’s hypnotic and astounding in the […]
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Functional MRI and Improvisation
How. Cool. Is. THIS?! Another gem from TED, this clip is of Charles Limb – a researcher who put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to see how their brains work during musical improvisation. (@Kubke – this is a coffee worthy conversation)
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Google Maps Navigation
Oh very very cool… and if you are lucky enough to be able to source an Android 2.0 based phone (like the Motorola Droid) it’s also very very free. Couple this with the just announced Google Music service and Google Voice and you have a take everywhere, contact, entertain and communicate solution – Not much […]