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Tag: Just enough technology

  • Good enough, Near enough, again

    Back in April, I posted about a PCWorld article talking about how the future of computing might very well be “good enough” rather than working with “top of the line”. Today, I spotted an article, this time in Wired, talking about how the makers of the Flip cameras used the “good enough, near enough” model…

  • Giving up the hashtag

    A little while ago, I wrote about my hashtag, #yegruns and today I’m thinking that it’s about time to retire it. It was more work that it was worth to get it to be used by anyone and for a while, we had a couple of users, but that stopped over the summer. In that…

  • Cellscope

    I saw this a few days ago, then I heard an interview on CBC about it and then it showed up again this morning in my inbox, I was awed when I heard it the first time and the more I see it and think about it the more amazing it seems. The idea that…

  • Simple tech for the simple exercise

    The popularity of running seems to be increasing again – it seems to go up and down through the decades. One of the things that is likely helping out this time is a little bit of technology from Nike and Apple (or you can get the non iPod version of the sportband). Wired has an…

  • Should we hurry our infants?

    Much of my interest in games and learning came from my youth playing games as seeing that there were potentially a really effective tool to deliver content. Though at the time I was playing those games, I wasn’t thinking about teaching and learning. I only saw how playing games about an age or time helped…