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Los Angeles TimesWho really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?
Los Angeles Times
How much genuine value is there in fancy educational electronics? Don't let companies or politicians fool you. US Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski speak at a Digital Learning Day event sponsored in part by … -
The Best High-Tech Travel Gadgets (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post (blog)
Traveling is a means to get away. To escape. A way to leave behind a desk job, paperwork and, nowadays, technology. Lugging a laptop to the Bahamas? Most people would say, "Forget it." Still, high-tech gizmos surround us everywhere and the notion that … -
Cars' high-tech gadgets vulnerable to hacking
San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists increasingly worry that the entertainment computers in vehicles could be manipulated to tell the safety computers what to do. Drivers can talk with each other via Bluetooth phone connections, ask their cars for directions and dial up … -
Chrysler turns to high-tech gizmos to raise workers' skills
Kansas City Star
By BRENT SNAVELY DETROIT — Chrysler workers are using tools normally found at film animation studios - such as 3D videos and computerized motion sensors - to reshape the way they assemble a car or build an engine. The automaker and the UAW have … -
Chrysler turns to high-tech gizmos to raise workers' skills
Belleville News Democrat
By BRENT SNAVELY - Detroit Free Press DETROIT — Chrysler workers are using tools normally found at film animation studios - such as 3D videos and computerized motion sensors - to reshape the way they assemble a car or build an engine. -
Pentagon Robot Program: Government To Help Bay Area Students Build Tech Gadgets
Huffington Post
By Andrew Becker With an eye toward revolutionizing how defense systems and vehicles are made, the Pentagon has tapped a team of Bay Area-based scientists, engineers and hackers to create a program that will enlist California high school students to … -
High-tech gizmos need high-tech 12-year-old
Waterbury Republican American
BY BILL DUNN | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN Well, it's been about a month since Christmas. This year the most popular gifts were electronic gizmos, such as iPhones, Droids, Kindles, flat-screen TVs, Nooks, DVRs, and iPads. (By the way, if you don't recognize … -
Trade your old tech gadgets for gift cards or store credit
The Seattle Times
You can trade in your old electronic gizmos at 1470 participating Target stores, through a program run by Nextworth recycling company. By Marla Jo Fisher No comments have been posted to this article. Want a new toy but you've still got the old one? -
Chrysler manufacturing academy uses fun, high-tech gizmos
Detroit Free Press
Alexandra Nicholaou, 23, of Rochester Hills does common assembly tasks in the human motion capture area of the Chrysler/UAW training center for its World Class Manufacturing process as trainer Wendy Santure, 37, of Newport looks on. -
High-tech gadgets energize classes at Lakeshore Elementary School
Leader-Telegram
First-grader Avery Mortenson uses one of Lakeshore Elementary School's new interactive white boards as teacher Jessica Severson and other students look on during a class lesson Wednesday. The school recently used a roughly $150000 grant to help it buy …