Category Archives: Science and Technology

Phoenix Has Landed! The search is ongoing for life on Mars.  The Odyssey Orbiter detected what appears to be large amounts of subsurface ice on the northern pole of Mars back in 2002.  Where there’s water, there’s life, right?  Such … Continue reading →

Microsoft Support for OOXML/ODF Just a quick entry on ODF support by Microsoft Office.  Looks like Microsoft has announced support for the Open Document Format (ODF) with SP2 of Office 2007 – which probably won’t come out until 2009.  There’s … Continue reading →

Touch Wall Pretty slick demo of the possibilities with a touch-aware wall (think a vertical Surface).  I can definitely imagine a lot of teaching and presentation scenarios for this technology.  Add connectivity to my content via Live Mesh and voila … Continue reading →

Groking the WorldWide Telescope In March I blogged about a talk at the TED conference on the WorldWide Telescope project that Microsoft Research was working on.  Well, it looks like a Beta version of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) software is … Continue reading →

R2-D2 DVD Projector I GOTTA get me one off these.  Are you listening honey??? Fathers day is only a month away….    Just think of the possibilities…it’s late at night, you’re catching up on the Battlestar Galactica episodes that you’ve … Continue reading →

RoboChamps & Boe-Bots RoboChamps is a new robotics programming league designed to encourage beginning robotics enthusiasts in their quest to learn all things robotic.  If you’re looking to learn a little bit more about the RoboChamps program – scope out … Continue reading →

Electromagnetic Levitation Experiment That’sa my boy!  I’m finally getting around to posting the video series that I shot of my son doing his "Electromagnetic Levitation Experiment" for his fourth grade science class a couple of months ago.  http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf ElectroMagnetic Levitation … Continue reading →

Worldwide Telescope Talk at TED Roy Gould & Curtis Wong gave a quick glimpse into a Microsoft Research project called the WorldWide Telescope at a TED talk in February.  This appears to be building on the SeaDragon and HD View … Continue reading →