0209WarmUp

Desktop or labtop? How about wearable? MIT students design a wearable computer!

Check it out @ http://www.wired.com/video/latest-videos/latest/1815816633/mit-students-develop-wearable-computer/10288173001
and http://www.wired.com/video/wearable-computer-projects-interactive-display/10280440001

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0206WarmUp

Binary math, how much do you remember?

Check it out @ http://forums.cisco.com/CertCom/game/binary_game_page.htm

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0205WarmUp

What's a Goggle Doodle?

Find out for yourself @ http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html.

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0204WarmUp

What's a chatterbox?

Check it out @ http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/.

Other interesting sites include:

http://users.auth.gr/~dkaras/

http://www.infradrive.com/robomatic.php

http://www.personalityforge.com/dynachat.php?BotID=23969&MID=23957

http://www.be9.net/BJ/

http://www.be9.net/BJ/games.htm

http://www.personalityforge.com/botlist.php

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0203WarmUp

Everyone is familiar with using a computer, but what's it look like inside?

Think you know how a computer works? Check out the following websites:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/watiwara/27182

http://www.quia.com/hm/86691.html

http://www.kids-online.net/learn/click/table.html

http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/computing/what/parts.htm

http://www.tpub.com/content/elecequipment/TM-5-6350-280-23P/img/TM-5-6350-280-23P_21_1.jpg

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0202WarmUp

Why study networking, computer repair and computer programming?

One great reason is that you can gain "employability".

But what can you do with a computer background?

Check out a list of dozens of computer-related jobs @ http://www.khake.com/page17.html.

Which job description interests you?

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0130WarmUp

What's a Roomba? A latin dance? A vacuum cleaner? Huh?

What's a Pakbot? A mechanical beast of burden? A motorized backpack?

They're all developed by a company here in Massachusetts called IRobot Corp.

Check it out @ http://store.irobot.com/corp/index.jsp

There is another group developing a robot that can jump and roll maybe intended for space exploration. See a demo @ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16190-video-jumping-rolling-robot-avoids-all-obstacles.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

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