Cars with wifi?

Check it out @

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/23/cars-with-wi-fi-hitting-the-new-information-highway/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10419548-94.html

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/audi-a2-electric-beats-traffic-with-autonomous-drive-wifi-laser-lights-50005180/

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Ford-Considers-Mesh-WiFi-Car-Network-115630

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dmac

0913WarmUp

The Boston Globe has gone online.

Read about it @

http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2011/09/12/frequently_asked_questions_about_bostonglobecom/

and

http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2011/09/12/new_site_a_peek_into_globes_technological_evolution/

Check it out @

http://bostonglobe.com/

0912WarmUp

How much energy does Google use? How about enough to power a small city.

Check it out @

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/09/09/google_drops_its_guard_on_facilities_energy_usage/



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dmac

0909WarmUp

Have a headache recently? Hope it's not a brain controlling parasite.

Check it out @

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/parasite-brain-control/?pid=2078

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dmac

Data storage has been growing exponentially over the past decade.

Look up the following capacities on the Internet:
byte
kilobyte
megabyte
gigabyte
terabyte
petabyte
exabyte
zettabyte
yottabyte.

How big are they?

Give me an example of what can be stored with each capacity, i.e. Blueray holds 500 GB of data.

0907WarmUp

One of the coolest websites on the planet.

http://www.droiddoes.com/#/bionic

Android rules--Iphone drools.

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dmac

0906WarmUp

Welcome to another year of GrokIt!

GrokIt originally appeared 3 years ago. While teaching at RHS, I conceived it as the digital equivalent of the Do Now or activator you may be used to other teachers giving to you to start the class.

Interestingly enough, I believe the blog has taken up a much more important role in my classes.

I envision using GrokIt as a hi-tech portal to get you and your energies focused on the class topics of the day by hyperlinking around the net to:

•discover state-of the-art technologies
•bump into some engaging topic
•just enjoy a fun and interesting website.

My hope is to try to kindle a spark of interest in computers and technology.

After all, the World Wide Web and everything in it was created by software developers, computer programmers, web designers, all kinds of techie people of which you are the next generation.

I also want to create a class community, a public forum from which you could express your opinions and see the opinions of others about these topics.

So here's today's GrokIt:

My favorite magazine in the whole world is WIRED. As mentioned in Wikipedia:

Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since March 1993, that reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast Publications, it is published in San Francisco, California.

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

Pick an article, read it and leave me a comment!

dmac