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POPSStar trek, tracked inside school :) Researchers at the Technology-Enhanced Learning Research Group (TEL) are designing new learning environments using interactive multi-touch desks that look and act like a large version of an Apple iPhone. The team observed how students and teachers interact in classes and how Information Communications technology (ICT) could improve collaboration. They then set about designing an interactive classroom solution called 'SynergyNet' to reflect TEL's aims of achieving active student engagement and learning by sharing, problem-solving and creating IT in schools is an exciting prospect - our system is very similar to the type of interface shown as a vision of the future in the TV series Star Trek!
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POPS The $100 Netflix Player Has Arrived Those looking for the HD video quality and polished interface of Apple TV and Vudu will be disappointed. The Netflix Player is strictly barebones--you're not intended to do anything more than just dive in and watch the movies and TV shows you've already queued up via your online Netflix account. The biggest drawback--for now at least--is the dearth of quality content. Thanks to Hollywood's byzantine licensing system, less than 10 percent of Netflix's 100,000-plus library of titles is available for streaming to the Player. That means, for now, that only two of Netflix's top 100 DVDs are available for streaming: March of the Penguins and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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POPSNBC Ditches iTunes I'm continually amazed by the shortsightedness of NBC and other content creators. Why on earth would you pull your product from the top retailer? This would be like Coca-Cola pulling its drinks from Wal-Mart, because Wal-Mart hasn't been able to completely stop shoplifting. Even if that's true, you're still going to lose way more money in lost revenues than you ever did from theft. Now NBC will push hard to sell its shows through Hulu, its new online video venture with News Corp. But Hulu's new and untested and certainly not where the customers are. Bad move, NBC. -David M. Ewalt
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POPSThings Didn't Happen In 2007 Everybody oohed and ahed over Google's new presentation offering, but then went right on using PowerPoint. Because that's what you use for presentations, everybody knows it. Google gets an 'A' for effort and for presenting alternatives, but as Microsoft is learning with Vista, the public seems rather reluctant to change the status quo. Unless it's for Apple products, that is.
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POPSConsumers Shrug at Apple TV Only 400,000 Apple TVs sold so far? That's pretty puny for a company whose other hardware sells astonishnigly well. Where's the Apple marketing muscle? I see iPod, iPhone and Mac OS commercials and print ads everywhere I go, yet I've never seen one ad for the Apple TV. Did I blink and miss it? What does Apple need to do to make the Apple TV a lust-worthy device?
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