5 Things OS X Mountain Lion Can Teach Windows 8
Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion will launch Wednesday, so it’s a good time for Windows users to peer across the border at what features in Mountain Lion might prove useful. Note that Windows 8 is a complete overhaul, while Mountain Lion is more of a refinement. Yet the Apple update adds lots of new features that would fit in nicely on Microsoft’s OS. In hopes of keeping alive the tradition of stolen OS features, here are...
Amtrak Enlists iPhone as a Service Tool
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US soldiers to wear blast sensors in Afghanistan, collect shock data
By Jamie Rigg posted Jul 30th 2012 7:17AM Starting next month, around one thousand frontline personnel in Afghanistan will begin testing the Soldier Body Unit, a sensor kit for recording the effects of explosions on the human body. While that’s not the most pleasant of subjects, the blast sensors have been rushed out to collect as much data as possible before soldiers head home in 2014. The US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force...
Unconventional Learning with iPad, Mac, and iPod touch
Students at the UK public school Flitch Green Academy use iPad, Mac, and iPod touch to create unique learning experiences. The inspiration Flitch Green is a public elementary/middle school located just outside of London. This modern eco-friendly version of a village school was designed to be the hub of the community — where the teachers support the kids so they feel safe to explore, to ask questions, and even to make mistakes. The...
CIA dragonfly drone almost beat modern UAVs by 40 years, was swatted (video)
By Steve Dent posted Jul 30th 2012 8:09AM US intelligence agencies were just as obsessed with drone spying 40 years ago as they are nowadays — only then, it was pipe-smoking entomologists and watchmakers who were in charge of building prototypes. Back in the ’70s, the CIA needed some kind of miniature flyer to deliver an audio bug, and after considering (and rejecting) a faux bumblebee, decided that a robotic dragonfly...
