One thing I dislike about my solar panels is the amount of dust that can collect on them. Especially after 90 days of no rain at my house. Dust is going to accumulate no matter where you live - but in Arizona, where there can be no long stretches of rain, the dust build up […]
In case you missed the news, First Solar has been given the go-ahead to start planning the building of the world’s largest solar plant in China -
Under a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government, First Solar will build a 2-gigawatt power plant, enough to power about 3 million Chinese households, at Ordos City, in […]
This is pretty cool - Toyota develops a mind controled wheelchair.
Toyota (NYSE: TM) researchers in Japan have built a brain/machine interface (BMI) that has been demonstrated to control a wheelchair using a person’s thoughts. The system enables a person to make a wheelchair turn left or right to move forward simply by thinking the […]
In a recent Marketing Seminar that I attended, we were taught that Motivation occurs on three levels:
Physical – “I have to buy this”
Intellectual – “It’s a good idea to buy this”
Emotional – “I want to buy this”
They stated that Emotional was the highest and most compelling factor that drives a person to make a purchase/decision. […]
Hi Everyone,
It has been some time since posting a blog topic here at Techspectives but thought this string conversation I had recently with Celeste Baine on a short video clip she posted on her blog might start some interesting convesations. So what started this conversation? See the video at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54iAkkjsfrA
How do we engage our […]
Again, I ask the question: When your students walk into your classroom, is it “like boarding an airplane where all the technology is turned off for the duration of the flight (or classroom)”? This is taken from Karl Kapp’s blog today where Apple’s Jon Burgess gave the keynote for Winter 2009 ICT conference. […]
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