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The Platform is a ruggedized 55” Active 3D LED LCD HD touch table that comes with a powerful integrated PC with an i7 quad core, built-in RFID, and support for 32+ touch points.

The Platform’s expansive 55” surface allows for true multiuser interaction, while its extraordinarily rugged design makes it perfect for just about any setting: public or private. The aircraft-grade aluminum design makes the Platform virtually indestructible, and unlike other multitouch systems, the Platform can perform in just about any lighting condition. Our touch systems have been installed in world-class museums, renowned research labs and universities, and are used by top interactive design firms, and Fortune 500 companies in a variety of settings.

Every Ideum touch product comes with a lifetime license for Gestureworks Core and Gestureworks Flash – the most powerful tools for multitouch application authoring.

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Eat Pray Run, DC

kindleI recently read this interesting NY Times article (written by a UVA alum to boot!) about cutting out technology — taking a “digital diet” if you will. I found this article particularly relevant because I was reading it on my laptop, with my new Kindle Fire sitting at my elbow and my iPhone sitting on my coffee table. Oh, and I’m pretty sure the television was on. It’s almost embarrassing to note how dependent I am on technology.

I’ve decided that I am going to go on a digital diet. No, I’m not giving up my new favorite toy nor am I turning in my iPhone. BUT I think it would be nice if I made a concerted effort to not check email / twitter / facebook while I am with friends. So, I’m going to try very hard to put my phone away when I’m sharing a meal or spending…

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The Paper-Free Class

Good day students! Today and the rest of this week we will be starting to explore the Common Core Curriculum in more detail. Today in particular we will be looking at one of the older FCAT standards – Identify Organization of Ideas (L.A.8.1.7.5) – In the Interactive Reader and Writer, you will be working in your groups to:

  • make a runner’s checklist in your journal pg. 18
  • “Learn the Skill” pg. 18
  • read the two non-fiction passages pg. 19-25
  • complete the FCAT Practice questions pg. 26 on Socrative

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Utopian Dreaming

The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru has invented an incredible new billboard that sucks humidity from the air and turns it into drinking water for local residents. Clean drinking water can be difficult to come by in Lima, as the city rests on a desert where it rarely rains, and many of the city’s wells are polluted. However, with 98% atmospheric humidity, engineers saw a tremendous opportunity.

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The billboard’s generators capture water vapor and, using reverse-osmosis, transform it into potable water that is stored in tanks. Residents collect the water from taps on the billboard and furnish their supplies of clean H2O.

The billboard has produced 9,450 litres of water in 3 months, which equals clean water for hundreds of families.

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