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Programming Made Easy

I first learned the basics of programming using Logo way back in 5th grade or so, writing simple scripts to make the cute little turtles move around the screen and draw simple pictures. It made basic programming concepts easy to grasp and even fun (for a kid like me) and it wasn’t until later in life that I realized how much I was actually learning from it.

That idea of teaching programming to kids early on has now been brought into the modern age with a new graphical programming system developed by MIT called Scratch. It looks pretty nifty.

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Sugar-powered Fuel Cells!

To sum it up: sweet!

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Music over Bluetooth

New technology will allow music to be carried wirelessly over a bluetooth connection. Wireless speakers and headphones exist now, but they are not high enough quality for discerning listeners. This technology transfers the audio digitally and future digital music players will probably include the transmitter, so the sound quality issues may be resolved once and for all. Nice!

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Death Rays, Atomic Blasters, and Combat Robots

A company called Brotron is making robots and futuristic weaponry for display in your space-age lounge. Nice! Here’s a movie of the Death Ray.

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Gameboy Advance as Video Phone

Yahoo News Story

It’s an attachment for a GBA that will let you use it to place a ‘video call’ another GBA over the regular phone lines. Neat!