There are a couple of things I’ve gotten excited about recently. One is the Lyngbox (http://www.lyngbox.com/) and the other is the Microsoft’s High School of the Future in Philadelphia (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/09/07/school.of.future.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories).
The LyngBox is like a Tivo for satellite users. It does for satellite users what cable boxes did for cable, and more! It automatically updates it’s channel listings from the internet and allows multiple users with different channel listings. The coolest is that it allows recording on its 160 GB hard drive, and since it is connected to the internet, allows remote record from the internet, meaning I could be on vacation and check what’s coming on through the web and ask my LyngBox to record it. Awesome.
The High School of the Future is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and sounds like an awesome place to go to school. There’s a blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/phillyhi/default.aspx) and if you’ve got Google Earth you can plug in the address (https://sdp-webprod.phila.k12.pa.us/OnlineDirectory/Directory & then search for word “future”) to look at the grounds. I don’t think Google Earth has a recent picture of the grounds with the new building on it, but it’s a beautiful looking area. There’s about 170 students in the first year class, which is grade 9 (Freshman), and they’re looking to expand to 750 students eventually. They’ve got electronic smart boards instead of blackboards and computers instead of books. I think they’ve moved into the paperless classroom. The whole place has wireless internet access. I wonder if they have any printers there. It brings up the question, “What is art class like?” By the way, I got most of the information from the CNN.com article referenced above and here again (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/09/07/school.of.future.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories).
The LyngBox is like a Tivo for satellite users. It does for satellite users what cable boxes did for cable, and more! It automatically updates it’s channel listings from the internet and allows multiple users with different channel listings. The coolest is that it allows recording on its 160 GB hard drive, and since it is connected to the internet, allows remote record from the internet, meaning I could be on vacation and check what’s coming on through the web and ask my LyngBox to record it. Awesome.
The High School of the Future is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and sounds like an awesome place to go to school. There’s a blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/phillyhi/default.aspx) and if you’ve got Google Earth you can plug in the address (https://sdp-webprod.phila.k12.pa.us/OnlineDirectory/Directory & then search for word “future”) to look at the grounds. I don’t think Google Earth has a recent picture of the grounds with the new building on it, but it’s a beautiful looking area. There’s about 170 students in the first year class, which is grade 9 (Freshman), and they’re looking to expand to 750 students eventually. They’ve got electronic smart boards instead of blackboards and computers instead of books. I think they’ve moved into the paperless classroom. The whole place has wireless internet access. I wonder if they have any printers there. It brings up the question, “What is art class like?” By the way, I got most of the information from the CNN.com article referenced above and here again (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/09/07/school.of.future.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories).
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