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Online classes really can teach as effectively as traditional classroom courses.
Two years ago, a New York Times article declared it the “year of the MOOC,” short for “massive open online courses.” For the first time every, researchers have carried out a detailed study that shows that these classes really can teach at least as effectively as traditional classroom courses—and they found that this is true regardless of how much preparation and knowledge students start out with.
The PW-14®
The PW-14®, an auto-protocol switching redundancy telephone, has a modem based circuit-switching protocol that is constantly running in the back ground with near instantaneous uptime that is contained if the primary VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) fails. The PW-14® is ultimate device for any weapons system.
ActiveAlive’s PW-14® is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place November 14-15, 2014 at the Denver Mart. This is your chance to experience the PW-14® and many other amazing innovations.
Continue reading… “The world’s first type 1 auto-protocol switching redundant telephone”
Library designed by architectural firm Snøhetta.
Shaunacy Ferro: Hanging out at the library might just become cool as Calgary, Canada has plans to build a new lending library. The library will be designed by Snøhetta, an architecture firm. The library will have a 240,000-square-foot center and will be more than just a repository for plastic-protected books. Twice as large as Calgary’s existing public library, it’s designed to be both a circulating public library and a community gathering space, a combination bookstore/computer lab/cafe/event space/social hub that provides a pathway between two disconnected neighborhoods. (Photos)
Continue reading… “Calgary’s Snøhetta-designed public library will be the Apple Store of libraries”
Ellie is the world’s first AI-psychologist. Developed by DARPA and researchers at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Ellie is a diagnostic tool capable of reading 60 non-verbal cues a second—everything from eye-gaze to face tilt to voice tone—in the hopes of identifying the early warning signs of depressions and (part of the long term goal) stemming the rising tide of soldier suicide.
Continue reading… “The global impact of AI-driven mental health care”
Alpha Cards
Alpha Cards have silly words with hilarious illustrations. They appeal to a boy’s sense of humor. The gross factor makes them that much more memorable! Alpha Cards is the first of many products that He’s All Boy hopes to create. He’s All Boy will be the brand that will appeal to boys and make them laugh out loud as they learn.
One of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase is Alpha Cards. The Inventor Showcase will take place November 14-15, 2014 at the Denver Mart. You will have a chance to take a look at Alpha Cards and many other amazing inventions.
Continue reading… “Alpha Cards – ABC flash cards especially for boys”
Futurist Thomas Frey: I had great difficulty completing this column. This is partly due to the complex nature of the technology and partly because its implications may indeed be so far reaching that I’ll sound over-reaching in describing it.
Continue reading… “Computing’s Next Big Transformation – Semantic Intelligence”
CandyLipz – Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase
The CandyLipz Xtreme Lip-Shaper® System is the world’s first home-use cosmetic lip enhancement beauty tool- clinically proven to increase lip volume and safe for intended use.
CandyLipz is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place November 14-15, 2014 at the Denver Mart. This is your chance to experience CandyLipz and many other amazing innovations.
Continue reading… “CandyLipz – innovative instant lip plumper technology”
If they can grow muscle, can they make meat?
Modern Meadow is a startup based in Brooklyn, New York. They are aiming to commercialize leather and meat products that are not made from slaughtered animals but brewed in cell-culture vats. If it works, and if the market embraces the resulting products, it would lead to vast savings in water, land, and energy use associated with livestock production.
Continue reading… “Why is lab-grown beef better than ranchers raising cows?”
Black holes have long been the subject of popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywood. They are the ultimate unknown. They are the blackest and most dense objects in the universe that do not even let light escape. And as if they weren’t bizarre enough to begin with, now add this to the mix: they don’t exist.
Continue reading… “Researcher proves mathematically that black holes do not exist”
Back to the Future flying Delorean
Back to the Future has filled our heads with visions of soaring Deloreans, but in reality, the automobile industry has some pretty glaring flaws it needs to address before we can attempt flight. It seems like everything in our daily lives is becoming connected. But very often the car is left out of this conversation, and it would benefit greatly from a healthy dose of mobile connectivity.
Continue reading… “The car of the future doesn’t fly, it fixes your flat”
Facebook internet delivery drone.
Facebook is pushing toward thousands of solar-powered internet delivering drones. They will have the wingspan of a jumbo jet and fly at 17 mile height. The semi-autonomous drones will be the size of jumbo jets which will fly 17 miles above the Earth to provide wireless internet access to the four billion people currently unable to get online. They want to fly them for months and years at a time. The drones will need to rise above the weather, flying at between 60,000 and 90,000 feet – around 17 miles above the ground.
Continue reading… “Facebook’s solar-powered internet delivering drones could be in use by 2018”
Private companies want to mine asteroids for fuel, and build filling stations in space. A bill now in front of the US Congress would help by allowing them to own what they discover – but it might, if passed, meet stiff international opposition.
Continue reading… “Asteroid Act could unlock billion dollar in asteroid mining business”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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